Just take a good looking anamorphic dvd and try that out on the widescreen tv for comparison. Some of these new tv's are really bad with atrocious black levels, pixelization and motion smearing/video noise. I zoomed in on Star Wars on my family's lcd tv and I thought it looked good on a tv I think is crap. I couldn't see a thing in the opening scene of ET (night in the forest). The same scene on my analog projection tv only looked as washed out if I turned the contrast down to roughly 25%.