FF, I wanted to compare it against the MGM and see if the print used was different. I should have mine here soon.

OHMSS

LD and SE seem different.

The cuts in foreign UK and German prints lead me to believe that this was the source of the differently edited stock car race and placement of those lines, the snafu with Campbell climbing, the reason for the errored shot of the cable car, and the reason why "closed shop" line is missing. All of these were either truncated or missing in various prints/video copies issued in both Germany and the UK for decades. In 1994 the UK VHS reinstated most things and appears to come from the 1991 LD master.

So. The print source used for the abandoned THX LD/SE DVD appears to possibly be from the UK, which explains the edits. Comparing to the LD reveals that the SE has far richer colors-almost to the point of boosting. It has different identifying marks than the LD so it's very likely it was another print. The LD is cropped on the sides and top, but has a few lines extra on the bottom. The SE is much less cropped.

The LD overall appears closer to the colder look of the BD. Not kidding.It's going to take a capture and direct, minute comparisons between all three to really nail down a definitive look. The SE print could have been Technicolor, or the LD could have for all we know.

With the newer BDs all have this heavy contrast bright look to them with deep color, again suggests that perhaps they scrapped the Lowry tinkering and just released the source scan as-is. We know for a fact that they rejected the cropped GE master and just used an old one so there is reason to believe that this is the case. Perhaps the extra Lowry tinkering was only done at 480p?

Sound? LD all the way, better levels in everything, but has several loud pops throughout.