captainsolo said:

Technically speaking, the GOUT will always win due to the image being at a better encode and from the video master used for the LDs. And the original 77 crawl was spliced in from a print.

But they just aren't that exciting. Especially when it comes to the canned standard Dolby 2.0 audio. I like the LDs much better. For the OT it's either the 93 or 95 Faces discs. The 95s are really just more convenient with less sides and some will argue that the CLV is slightly inferior to the CAV format.

Without the changes and Mos Eisley pink shift, the 97 LDs are stunning for the format.

And if you really want to get down and dirty, the Japanese Special Collections don't have the awful motion smearing on the 93, 95 and GOUT.

So it all depends on what you like the films to seem like, and how much you really like LD.

How much do the Japanese special collections run for on eBay?