Darth Editous: Yeah, it's the artifacts caused by up-sampling that I'm worried about, any negative side effects that might be caused to the picture. The best thing is to do an unaltered non-anamorphic version to preserve the laserdisk picture as perfectly as possible, as well as an anamorphic version. Then you can watch which ever version best suits your tastes and the type of t.v. you are watching it on.

If the X0 team attempts an anamorphic version, it will be very interesting to see how much image detail and clarity they can maintain.

Like you said, on many 16x9 HD t.v.'s the t.v. up-samples everything you watch on it to either 720 or 1080 HD, whether you want it to or not. So it's probably better to do the upsampling for an anamorphic transfer ahead of time, so you can at least get the picture to full anamorphic DVD resolution with the best quality possible before the t.v. gets a hold of the video and starts up-scaling it on-the-fly to HD. What do you think?