>>The SE LD as a source would be far better. They are cleaned up, but are still near the same level as the O-OT LDs. In addition to this, you have the uncompressed video to ceate a master AVI from, rather than the MPEGs of the DVDs.

Yeah, an SE/OT LD mix would be great. Someone should certainly do this.

>>Which begs the question...why bother with such a sharp transfer in the first place. It's like getting a Porsche, but driving it in second gear so you don't go too fast. Know what I mean?

Because you still have a Porsche. =) I mean, if you go with the laserdiscs for the whole thing, it will be blurry throughout. But with the new DVDs out, you can make 90% of it look slightly better, or completely perfect. You could choose your own level of blurriness, that's why.

There are more options now, clearly.

I mean, there's been a lot of talk about PAL laserdiscs and CAV versus CLV, to make your laserdisc transfers look SLIGHTLY better.

Surely it's worth the same amount of thought to making it look better still, by using a downgraded version of the '04 DVDs as often as possible?

I bring up blurring it because you said yourself you wanted "consistency."

I mean, it all starts to look kind of the same when you play a DVD5 on a normal sized TV screen anyway, right?