m_s0 said:

By LD transfer I meant transfer for the purpose of LD. Still, that transfer was ancient in 2006 and the point isn't how good a job they've done with it. The point is that they haven't chosen a better source. And I hope you're not going to argue that there wasn't one.

It was also used for the 1995 "Faces" VHS release, and could have been used as a television broadcast master as well, though I don't know if it ever was.

Also, I've already said:

"I know, which is why I said it wasn't nearly as good as it could've been (i.e., it could have been an anamorphic 16:9 transfer from a new 4K film scan, had they invested the time and money)."

I don't know what they had for OUT sources in 2006. There are obviously various film sources, but there is no way to know if they had any better digital masters of the OUT than the 1993 ones. But either way, that's beside the point; the quality of something isn't determined based on what could have been done, it is based on what was done. The GOUT is pretty typical quality for a 4:3 DVD, and it is also better quality than any previous home video release. There is no reasonable standard by which they could be considered "terrible" or "horrible"; words which denote the bottom of the barrel. In the context of home video, the bottom of the barrel is already occupied by e.g., VCD, VHS, CED, Betamax.