Darth Editous said:

Have you considered that by upscaling you're locking yourself down needlessly? A lot of TVs and media players out there that do some pretty damn good upscaling, and are always getting better, but if you've already upscaled the input, you rob them of the opportunity to do a possibly better job.

DE

At first, I did feel that way (especially since my home BD player really kicks @$$ at upscaling). My thought was that, in the end, it's still GOUT. Heck, that's probably the single most important argument I use for not doing a full-on BD-R version ;)

But, after comparing my original Rebellion version of Empire to my first 720p test, I was able to see a clear difference. It wasn't dramatic by any stretch of the imagination, but it did look a bit sharper and a bit more...filmy.

You make a good point. And, just in case there are players that can do a better job, I do intend to release a standard DVD counterpart to this set. I guess, more than anything, this is an experiment just to see how well a 720p upscale of GOUT "can" be done. It'll be up to the viewer on the other end whether or not it "should" be done ;)