The Aluminum Falcon said:

I believe that the problem was that the processes in those days to capture digital broadcasts usually caused heavy smearing; however, recently someone did suggest that the smearing was inherent to the 1997 Telecine.

Oh, I see. Thank you, I didn't know that.

If the first theory is correct and the broadcast you pointed out is recent enough, then there is a possibility that we could find a recording with no smearing, which would be utterly fantastic.

I hope that the first theory is correct. We will see. The broadcast is sure recent enough, the author of the first YT video I refered to has confirmed that the recording was taken in 2008. Unfortunately he didn't record the whole movie and nor the author of second YT video. And I have got no German friends so it will be quite hard to find someone who has the recording of this boradcast.

BTW, Return Of The Jedi was also broadcasted on Pro7 in 2009, 2010 and this year (see eg. http://www.cinefacts.de/tv/filmtv.php?id=18234 ) and it will be highly likely broadcasted the next year but I don't know which version it was/will be...

Good luck trying to find someone though. In the years this forum has been active, not many digital broadcast recordings have surfaced and all with the smearing, so it may be pretty hard to find a high quality recording...

Thank you. If I find someone, I will let you know.