Originally posted by: Mike O
As these DVD transfers do not meet industry stards, I must repectfully disagree.

It's still considered industry standard to release non-anamorphic sourced material as non-anamorphic (many DVD's with extras feature a mix of anamorphic and non-anamorphic features). It's annoying, but it's standard. They're using SD non-anamorphic master tapes, so it's not necessary to resize them for DVD. Yes, I'm well aware they could do it really well if they chose to, but I still fail to see how this is a requirement.

People are going to start buying HD-TV's. And HD TV's will see DVD players with better inbuilt scaling (in fact I've seen some excellent scaling just on set top boxes)... which will up scale both anamorphic and non anamorphic PAL/NTSC to an HD signal. Or you can buy a progressive scan DVD player ... or you can rip it and resize it yourself on your home PC. So why on earth does it matter so much that the disc is non-anamorphic? You're nitpicking it to death. It's standard procedure, and there are movies released on DVD - that were made after Star Wars - that are not available in anamorphic form.

By the way, the R4 release will, most likely, be dual R2/R4 and probably a direct copy of the R2 version (or vice versa). You should find the video and sound encoded exactly the same on the R2 and R4 releases.