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LD and SE share the same print. Must have been rerun and cleaned off for the SE transfer. Aspect ratio identical save for that the SE shifts the framing down a little bit. Color is extremely pushed on SE for some reason. The opening white circles become blue and many shots feature pushed color not present on LD or UE. This is one of the very few where they really seemed to have got it right. The UE looks better on my CRT and like a relatively accurate balance between over-saturated SE and slightly contrasty LD.

The BD is just a 1080p bump of the UE. The LD is phenomenal for the format due to coming out in 1993 and a very rare find. You can't really go wrong with any version. The 1.78 cropping here is much more minimal, from the original 1.85.

The mono suffers from being compressed. The 5.1 spread is very artificial, and so the PCM mono is badly needed.

Also, I noticed that some SEs (GF, TB, LALD, FYEO, TLK, GE, TND) list a "Newly struck widescreen master for optimal PQ and SQ". Perhaps these were the THX LDs that were finished? But it doesn't list the credit on MR, and the GE/TND discs were only reissues...who knows.

Lastly, there are audio glitches in LALD on all LDs...these are really weird, they sound like very tiny faint beeps or pulses that start in the Bond-Kananga confrontation underneath the Fillet of Soul and then pop up again in the underground caverns. Weird. Almost like the element was in hospital.