Hi, I’m a newbie and I feel like a fly amongst giants here.
My short background story is I bought a new hld-x9 player back in 2003 for $5000 and the ultimate edition as Lucas said he was never going to release the GOUT again. I played each disc to make sure it worked and was pretty impressed withthe quality, then went travelling for 7 years, so my hld-x9 player has had a pretty good life.
I came across this website recently and saw a user say that he has a hld-x9 and the gout dvd processed by g-force’s script is about 10 times better than the laserdiscs, so c’est la vie… although i was a bit gutted at the time.
I’ve spent a lot of time reading these forums and I (correct me if I’m wrong), get the impression that the “holy grail” is a scanned 35mm reel to reel of the sw saga.
However 16mm has a resolution of 1800 lines (better than hd video) and the person who did the puggo release says that it’s not better quality than the gout dvd, and having seen some scans on their website I would tend to agree.
I think I’ve also seen some scans of 35mm (by negative1?) and also they did not seem to be of better quality than the gout dvd.
So I guess my question is, from a “beating the quality of the gout” standpoint, is a 35mm reel to reel scan going to be any good?