As far as the zoom(?) I am of course trying to counter the cropping already done to the movie. But yeah, the down side is a reduced number of actual lines used for the picture. But although it's much less lines than Moth3r's disc, since it is anamorphic it still contains more lines than the original laserdisc source (I think).
Does anyone know the number of actual lines used in a PAL 2.35:1 laserdisc? I think I'm going to go do some calculations on that this afternoon I don't want less...
As far as the break up, I didn't notice, but that clip is several pieces edited together, so there might be some problems from that. I'll check that too.