Max_Rebo: Will the NTSC version on DVD have the video down-converted to the correct NTSC DVD video standard (which is 480i resolution, I think), so that the DVD's will play on any standard U.S. NTSC DVD set-top stand alone DVD player (not a computer DVD drive) hooked up to a regular NTSC television set?

This is a great idea, to put together the best possible Star Wars SE (1997) DVD set.

So this will be combination of the highest quality PAL video source, plus the 5.1 soundtrack from the U.S. Star Wars SE laserdisk set, correct?

Wouldn't it be easier for the NTSC set to just do the best possible transfer from the U.S. laserdisk set and then put that on a dual-layer DVD for maximum quality? Or is the idea that if you start with a PAL video source that is at a higher native resolution than even the NTSC DVD video specification, and then slow the video down to the correct NTSC 23.976 frames per second, that you will then be able to make an anamorphic NTSC DVD 480i video conversion from this that doesn't have any grain or other resolution problems in the picture quality?

Thanks for any info., this set sounds very exciting!