He(Ridgeshark)may not release a DVD9,and if not,I am still good with that,and how do you know it was compressed,it could have been all re-encoded,a damn good re-encode looks just fine,I have taken a Dawn of The Dead edit that was just shy of 8 full GB's and used DVD Rebuilder Pro to make a DVD5 out of it and it looks and sounds friggin sweet,and I am watching on a 62" HDTV with ALL my DVD's being upconverted to HD,I just did a multi-pass CCE encode,so it was actually re-encoded not compressed,maybe Ridge did it that way,I do know this is becoming more and more practiced instead of using the very crappy DVD Shrink or others.

So why don't you wait until you have it and see it before making judgements.