I love the look of Althor’s JSC captures - I grew up on the Faces P/S VHS tapes and for some reason I find that these captures provide more nostalgia for me that any of the GOUT work I’ve seen.

This project is just a cleanup of the 5 average 720p release - I have done my best to remove analogue interference and rainbowing without overdoing DNR and removing film grain. I’ve also tried to match color and contrast discrepancies between the different LD sides. I’ve found that skin tones are inconsistent in the JSC and have tried to find a happy medium across the board. I have left frame damage in tact as well as a few red frames just to maintain the analog source feel.

Rather than use the attached audio, I grabbed Schorman’s LD Audio Archive and compared his different GOUT synched versions to find my preferred versions - difficult since they all sound stellar.

These will be Anamorphic 720x480 releases. I’ll release an x264 MP4 with 192 KBPS AAC first, wait for reviews, make any last minute tweaks, then release a AVCHD-9 with LPCM.

My first release will be Return of the Jedi since options for that tend to be scarcer and when I was little it’s the one I watched most.

Following I’ll probably do SW then ESB, then possibly TPM just to complete. If someone can get me high quality captures of the AotC and RotS widescreen VHS tapes, I’ll release those as a part of the set for a complete 6 film Analogue to Digital set.

11/12
RotJ MP4 should be hitting your spleen this afternoon.
This uses Schorman’s 1986 US Sources.