Beyond the softness, there was also that shimmer, that ebbed and flowed, and changed colors, and combined with the registration errors to make it unwatchable for me. We all have different perspectives and areas of comfort when it comes to image quality. I threw away the disc long ago. But I...
I found the DVD of "On Moonlight Bay" unwatchable. I'm not an expert in this regard, but it appeared to be layer fade, as the color temperature kept changing inside the image, appearing in the center and moving outwards intermittently during the film. I know layer fade isn't supposed to happen...