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.)

Thank you! And yes, of course you may link to my screenshots. In fact, I would like it even more if you all would send the link to Disney! The more they are made aware of the issues, the better.

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.

That is true for the dust on the left and right of her, but not for the part next to her head, against the sky. Over there big parts are nearly gone. Another example of the same problem can be seen in that similar shot in my original comparison, where two of the fingers of her left hand have been reduced to pointy objects.

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

I'm working on it... ;)

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.

As far as I know there was also a VHS from around 1988, at least in Europe. Maybe that one would predate any restorations...