zombie84 said:

That all depends on the assumption that the P&S is NOT a blow-up from the widescreen, which probably isn't the case. In the 80s and 90s the 4x3 transfers were minted straight from a print because this was 99% of the market, but in the DVD era where 4x3 is not liked I think they are more often than not just blow ups from a widescreen master. Even on Fox's "what is widescreen?" feature on the Die Hard 5-star DVD from 2001 they show the fullscreen process as derived from the widescreen master and thus losing resolution.

I've not seen that feature, or knew that they would seriously make the P&S versions from the widescreen scans they already made. Are the Star Wars 2004 DVDs done like that (not like we don't have the 1080p files floating around to use as sources)?