ok, just hooked up my first LD player, and discovered that yes virginia, it does do both analog and digital audio. Watched a few minutes of it in Yapanese, and now switched to the english track on the analog. The video is the best I've ever EVER seen this movie in, being crisp with just a few color leaks and a few "audio lines" or whatever they're called. it's definitely not "dvd quality" but damn is this gorgeous. I mean....I'm literally in awe at how beautiful this movie is....best I've EVER seen it look. It is 4:3, and I keep reading that the japanese ld is 16:9, but I'm not sure how true that is or how much of a big difference it is, so my dvd is gonna bea 4:3 tranfer.

Now it's just a matter of the actual conversion.