Yes; the Death Star looks really good. The improvement in the Star Destroyer is even more marked, in my opinion. I am really excited about the new version of your edit. The color correction pictures look amazing.

I don't know why TVs offer "exact scan", because overscan (unrelated to NAB) dictates that around 5% of the picture around the edges should be considered "unsafe", and professional TV is produced with this in mind (including HD).

I thought this was for blu-ray. I have always been told that unless I am viewing a blu-ray on exact scan I am not getting the full picture quality. This is what I set my TV to every time I watch blu-ray.

Why is ovescan unrelated to NAB? When I looked at NAB in that wikipedia article it seemed to relate it to overscan. No doubt I've misunderstood again. :-)

From what I read it seems that this 1050 instead of 1024 business is just because if you resize exactly to 1024 people with old sets lose part of the picture, as it then seems "lifted" slightly on their screens when it overscans. I don't think this affects the AR itself though. Isn't it more the scope of the film?

I think the 7 pixels not 8 might have been due to the fact that the HDTV was 720p not 1080, and the fact that the DVD had no black bits at the side.