jswert123 said:
im not major expert but cant you convert from widescreen to full screen vice versa and still have good quality thru out
I've tried that, but was never happy with how the widescreen image looked when blown up to full frame. Very blurry and I saw lots of digital artifacts and digital blocks. To do pan and scan correctly, it takes a lot of time to map out how you will pan each change of camera angle in each scene to keep the focus on the right area of the frame at any given moment. Very time consuming. Also, not every extra scenes injected into the laserdisk versions is contained on the DVD or Blu-ray sets. For some stuff, the Laserdisk was the only source. There is one extra scene on my edit that was sourced from the DVD box that was not on the laserdisks. That was the last scene with Michal and his father in the garden when Michal returns from... Don't want to give it away.
Here is the website with all the information you need to know about these extra scenes, and also the box sets they came from. It's a great site.