msycamore said:
Not that this answer of mine has any bearing on althor1138's original question. But it depends on what pressing of the DC you own. At least one shot utilizes another source on early pressings of the DC (lightsaber shot in Ben's Hut). While the replacement seen on the Faces LD and the Bonus Feature DVD fixed a quite severe case of DVNR, it introduced another flaw here which is incorrect aspect ratio. But on the other hand those early DC pressings lacked the "Leia welding scene" in ESB among other things, so it's more of an early production flaw than a "true difference."
Ridiculously enough, the tranfers on the LD's overall displays slightly more vertical detail compared to the Bonus Feature DVD's and if we're going to be even more picky, different amounts of complete frames. And the LD's of course contains the 1981 re-release crawl on the first film. The latter might be enough to some collectors.
I knew about the welding scene and I was very careful to get a later pressing because of that (but instead got a copy of ROTJ with laser rot one one disc), but I've never heard about the lightsaber/Ben's Hut scene being different on later pressings.
I don't see the extra vertical detail on the LDs (even on the X0 screenshots from way back when--IIRC they were pretty fuzzy compared with the Gout). I think the LDs lost a lot of picture detail when they went through the extra analog pressing step, that the DVDs were able to skip. To each his own, though. I'm not a proponent of the blu-rays, either. ;-)