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Post #549988

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grisan
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OBITUARY - Star Wars Fullscreen/Pan and Scan versions. R.I.P.
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Date created
4-Nov-2011, 12:28 AM

I have the UK fullscreen laserdiscs of the OT, but all the discs suffer from laser rot. 

Star Wars as the oldest disc is the worst case, there are a lot of artifacts and video dropouts (the small black spikes all over the image). In addition Star Wars has some weird interlacing issues, like it was badly converted from an interlaced NTSC source.

Empire strike back has a severe case of chroma noise..

Return of the jedi seems not as bad as the other two, but also has video dropouts.

 

Unfortunately my CLD-S315 player can't play analog audio on PAL discs. This plus the other problems is the reason why I never bothered to capture these discs.