Weird thing, I posted in the 2.35:1 black bars thread about how when viewing some of my 2.35:1 DVDs on a 4:3 screen there are grey bars, well my latest test there wasn't any grey bars it was all black, which is cool! I think I know why, what I was testing on was encoded to mpeg2 from DV, this time I'm encoding from mpeg2 from huffy...

As I'll be doing 3 flavours of the trilogy from my captured source, XviD, PAL and now NTSC I tried an anamorphic NTSC clip and it's looking very good (apart from the horrible 3:2 pulldown needed to view on an NTSC screen):

http://www.haku.co.uk/pics/StarWarsLDtest10.jpg

edit: playing back cleaned up clips I've been noticing something's not quite right, the aspect ratio wasn't spot on, doing some measuring of pixels on the captured source it turns out I'm working with 2.293:1 footage not 2.35:1, just needed to increase the PAL anamorphic image by 10 pixels (NTSC by 8 pixels) and it now looks right