I went ahead and hooked up my LD Player a Pioneer CLD-V2400 w/ composite to my 50" Panny and compared it to the TR47 set using my DVD player (using component)
I didn't spend too much time but the TR47 was pretty close to the Faces LD. The only difference I could tell was the Original "Faces" LD was brighter w/a little bit of a red push compared to the TR47 set.
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Anyway both may had the same amount of jagged outlines of the images on screen w/ a slight egde in sharpness to the Original LD, but not much.
I also purchased the '97 SE LD and boy what a difference the SE LD reminded me of how Star Wars looked in the theaters in 1977. DAMN it's too bad Lucas isn't going to fix and put out the OT on DVD.
The '97 SE LD was sharper than the Faces LD, colors might have been the same except more detailed w/ crushing of the gold colors of C3PO's outer shell. (NOTE: I only watched the open scene on all three discs)
So in order from best to worst:
1) '97 SE LD - sharper picture, less jagged lines on the images, more detail on C3PO's shell
2) Faces LD - Colors brighter (may be too much red push) - very slight edge of sharpness over the TR47 set
3) TR47 - but only what was mentioned above - sound still excellent, same if not better than the Faces LD
I don't know if the Faces LD looked so fuzzy because of the composite connection or my player, I'm not sure if it would have looked better on a different player or using S-video or not. Does anybody know the answer to this???
I am SO looking forward to the next generation of SW LD b/u projects, from the pictures i've seen there may not be a difference between the LD and the b/u's w/ a slight edge to the b/u's do to the filtering.
Hope this is helpful.