This is great news!

I hope you plan on doing ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK since the Optimum Blu Ray was a nasty rescale job and the HDTV rip doing the rounds is so much nicer.

And, if you're interested, I can point you towards a nice 1080i .ts source for E.T. - THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL, the ORIGINAL unmolested version. The audio is only 2.0 but the DTS track from the DVD syncs up perfectly for the first 85% percent of the movie and then is maybe a frame or two out so some slight resyncing might be necessary there.

At any rate, I look forward to your results!

P.S. Hell yeah, I'm up for THE GATE in high def.