Greetings. Been lurking a while, usually post at TFN... anyway, I love this site for helping me appreciate O-OT bootlegs so I'll always have the version of SW I grew up with, even though I'll buy and love the official DVDs. I thought I'd share an image quality comparison I put together. Obviously a "restored" O-OT made from the official DVDs would be compelling, though I doubt it'll be possible to have uniform image quality when restoring non-SE/DVD footage given the lack of good source material. No pre-DVD video source is even remotely close to the official DVDs' image quality. Without Lucasfilm's cooperation the only hope would be to find someone with O-OT film prints and the ability to digitize and restore them.

Anyway... this comparison obviously altered its content by each example being resized to the same dimensions and additionally compressed to jpeg, but all four suffered equally so it's still an OK comparison.

Bandwidth saving thumbnail to catch the eye:

Click here for the real image.