Welcome, Freddy2, and thank you for the input. I hope you are cool with your screenshots being linked. Those sort of comparisons are really impressive and extremely difficult to replicate. (Especially when analog sources are involved.)

I've made corrections to the Cinderella entry in the first post and have reworded the recommendations.

Some of the lost detail is very much lost (e.g., the bow). In some cases I'm not so sure.

The fairy dust looks like lost detail, but you can actually count the specks in both versions and the only real difference is that it is now smaller in diameter.

Fattening the dust is the sort of manipulation that would have been done for home video to keep it from disappearing between scan lines of the TV.

I'm trying to be even handed until we have cells or some other source to confirm which detail is actually lost.

We are in complete agreement with the colors being badly messed with. They are.

I have also now been more specific that the VHS and LD are the preferred format. The screenshots you posted make it apparent the LD2DVD transfer has some issues (possibly in the LD itself) that wash out the details it is meant to be preserving. (Without VHS vs LD screenshots, I'm not sure where the issue is.)

Whatever method you used to take those VHS screenshots would be a great way to make a VHS2DVD transfer.

I hope I am now more clear, VHS and LD are the purist source for Cinderella, period.

If you can tolerate incorrect colors and some unfortunate loss of detail, the Diamond release has amazing clarity and some additional detail that even the analog sources lack. Which is why I say, at best, it is only 'acceptable'.

The 'acceptable' suggestion is also intended to be more accessible for those that may not be able to track down and/or play vid tapes or LDs. In the case of Cinderella that's a problem since there are no digital home video releases that predate the restoration. Snow White in an even worse situation since I've seen no pre-restoration home video version at all.