skyjedi2005 said:

Thanks for making this available.

Even if its quite true this is the worst of the pressings on LD for the pre THX widescreen version

You're welcome.

I would say it's only a choice between the JSC and this one, if you're not including the shrinking ratio one in various pressings. Have not seen the actual JSC LD to make a fair comparison.

skyjedi2005 said:

at least its a nice rarity and it looks like its from a different film source than the other ones.

Most likely the same source the THX transfers are from.

skyjedi2005 said:

Analog Video Noise is something that always is anoying on laserdiscs.

An X0 player would help in this regard were the LD not plagued with problems.

I agree, most of what you're seeing on this transfer is unfortunately in the source. :( I got rid of most of the analog video noise by doing a 5-cap median in avisynth, as I understand it that is basically what the XO player does internally by averaging the result from 5 separate decoders. No other Laserdisc I have captured show this amount of chroma noise and rainbowing like this one do. Not that I doubt a better player and capturing method would get me better results.