Moth3r said:

StarThoughts said:

Knightmessenger said:

But I maintain the best official retail version you can get is the 2006 dvd. (or 2008 box set, it's the same discs from 2006 into thinner cases.) It is by far the best single pre 1997 source you can find and is way better than the 1993-95 laserdiscs or vhs can output.

…except for the sound. The LPCM soundtracks on the laserdiscs sound much, much better than the anemic Dolby Digital track on the DVDs.

This is not true, the audio tracks on the DVDs are the same mixes as those on the 1993 Definitive Collection & Faces laserdiscs.

Edit: or are you saying that the laserdisc is better because it's uncompressed while the DVD is AC3? If so, I wouldn't say the laserdiscs are "much, much better", most people would not be able to tell the difference.

The laserdiscs had uncompressed PCM stereo while the 2006 dvd's have dolby digital 2.0 only. But the audio mix is the same. As someone who has dvd's made from the 1993 NTSC laserdiscs with the PCM audio intact, the improvement in video quality with the 2006 dvd is much more noticeable than the compressed audio.

Pick your poison I guess. But I'm sure many people have taken the 2006 video, converted it to 16x9 and added PCM audio options.

My main point is that the best single official retail source for the average person is the 2006 dvd. Not everyone is going to notice the audio differences or other distinctions.