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CatBus
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Info: Finding Original Trilogy DVDs - for any of the original theatrical versions
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27-Feb-2016, 1:23 AM

You’ve mentioned you’re colorblind, and that’s probably why you’re using color-descriptive words a little atypically. The GOUT is too bright, desaturated, and pink-shifted (among other issues). The blues you’re seeing are IMO mostly just the brightness talking.

Be prepared to get into the tall weeds on aspect ratio, because the DVD format is weird. An NTSC DVD has eight pixels on each side of the image which are essentially throwaway–it’s called nominal analogue blanking. These are pixels that never make it to the display over an analogue connection. So you actually trim those 16 pixels off the sides, and THEN stretch it, and then it’s probably closer to the correct AR than you think. The problem is that digital connections don’t lose any pixels, the entire image makes it too the display, and an old-style DVD will appear slightly too tall and skinny for a modern set. Conversely, many DVD authors nowadays don’t bother taking blanking into account, use all the pixels, and so those images will appear slightly to short and fat to anyone using an analogue connection. And there’s no way to tell in advance which way the disc was authored, you just have to look at it and figure it out.

Not to mention they weren’t that strict about maintaining aspect ratio in 93 anyway, all technical issues aside.