Originally posted by: Scruffy
Unless the DVD creator has a scaler that is far superior to the one built into my TV

Yup, that's exactly why it's done. So to answer your question, RobinHood, all the "anamorphic" preservation DVDs are just scaled up from the letterboxed LDs, which means that if you wait 'til a week or so after they're released, I'm sure you'll be able to get a similarly scaled version of the new DVDs which will likely be better than any of the existing versions.

If you can't wait that long, the best image quality on an anamorphic disc is, IMHO, Moth3r's. The best sound is probably Cowclops v2.