"Will Prillaman or somebody else who knows their stuff, be reviewing and comparing your transfer to the ones already available, most importantly the TR47 transfers?"

I guess you didn't read Riktor's comments a few days back?

"since you own (or have seen) the Definitive Edition laserdisc can u tell me what video problems it has besides being a little soft? Are there compression artifacts on it or some noise for example the scenes in the desert on Tatooine or the ice scenes on Hoth."

First of all, my set is flawed, so my comments wouldn't necessary reflect on TR47's version. This is why I used the Faces set instead (which, again, is 99% the same transfer) That being said, you won't see any compression artifacts on the LD, since the video is uncompressed.

"Also, is the starfield in the opening scroll pristine and clearly defined or a bit muddled as in the DVD-R transfers?"

I'll show you what the starfield looks like from my master and DVD.

http://home.netcom.com/~eandtc/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/starfield.jpg