Chewtobacca said:
To me all three have the same timing, they differ yes, but I wouldn't call them completely different timings.
Obviously, this is subjective, but I can see a substantive difference between the Laser Pacific transfer and previous releases in terms of color. It's not huge, but I would say it counts as a different timing.
The AF is the one to ask about the different transfers though.
Oh yes, absolutely they differ, the "Laser Pacific transfer" is warmer and have much better skintones than the DVD, even subtle differences in hues makes a huge difference. Still, it doesn't look like a complete new timing to me, more like a much better representation of it but I may be wrong.
Check my comparisons on the last page for example, that is the same timing to me even though the untweaked shots are a much better representation, not as big a difference as the DVD vs. HDTV perhaps. (quite ironic the bonus feature material look better than the main feature) Differences in tints shouldn't imo be confused with a whole new timing done, there could be lots of reasons for why these encodings look like they do.
Personally I'm not 100% satisfied with any of these transfers but I favor the wowow version with my TV settings on warm.
And who is AF?