After some googling I’m even more sure that the Rutracker DVD is definitive. It was remastered and restored in 1992 by Ron Furmanek with Apple Records. Only clips were available until recently which were on the Anthologies.
Right. I compared both the RuTracker DVD and “The Beatles - Let It Be - Uncropped 16mm Full Screen Edition” from MySpleen. It seems it’s actually the exact same source, encoded at similar bitrates with different menus! Some of the compression artifacts were exactly the same, so I suspect one to have been encoded from the other. The only distinguishable thing is the MySpleen DVD is slightly darker; I prefer the look of the RuTracker myself.
I tried IVTC’ing them to 23.976fps and get loads of artifacts, though…
On an entirely separate note, does anyone still have the audio track from the Help: AMC Restored Mono broadcast? Someone uploaded it to Demonoid awhile back. I’m trying to sync it with the open matte MPI DVD or possibly an upscale of the open matte MPI DVD with some lovely film grain 😃 Either way, it will provided a suitable alternative to the Help DVD which looks scrubbed to hell. The “restored stereo” track from the LD would also be a welcome addition.