If someone had a DVD rip, why did they [only] make a 640x288 XviD out of it? You would have thought they would have posted the entire DVD as a torrent somewhere [as well]. The 3 disc PAL SVCD with the Russian opening crawl that is floating around is much better quality than any 700x2 XviD. Also, what is up with 640x288? 640x272 is correct for a 2.35:1 movie. It is good that it has AC3 audio though which usually means it was left untouched from the DVD (the 192 kbs stereo stream in this case). The same can't be said for the SVCD's of course.