As far as the reframing goes, I swould still like to give it a shot. After Effects give you a lot of options when it comes to messing with the orientation of the video and I think something could be done to make it mesh with the dvd. It might be best to use parts from the '04 NTSC dvd, '04 PAL dvd, and something like the X0 project since the both the PAL and the Laserdisk footage are cropped a bit differently than the '04 dvds.
As far as the reframing goes, I swould still like to give it a shot. After Effects give you a lot of options when it comes to messing with the orientation of the video and I think something could be done to make it mesh with the dvd. It might be best to use parts from the '04 NTSC dvd, '04 PAL dvd, and something like the X0 project since the both the PAL and the Laserdisk footage are cropped a bit differently than the '04 dvds.