I agree about all of the fighting. I myself probably sound harsh, but that is not my intent at all. I'm big on 16:9 as I see no disadvantage to it, but I do not have a DLP projector to test with, so I could see how upconverting to 16:9 would have degradation when viewed on a very large screen like 12 foot. Man that must be awesome though to have that setup.

As far as the widescreen TV's go. I don't know if it is a problem for most of them. I was only able to test out 3 myself. However, most of the people with 16:9 TV's on that huge Star Wars thread at DVDRHelp said they didn't like the way their 4:3 encodes came out on their 16:9 sets, but they were happier when they went back and did 16:9 encodes and played them back.

I stopped calling the 16:9 encodes we do Anamorphic since it is a different process done with different equipment than Hollywood. I could be mistaken, but IIRC, they scan the film image frame by frame at the highest possible resolution into something and the shape is changed at that point. So they create a digital master that is truly Anamorphic. I don't know where they do color correction and cleanup. I guess they do it to their digital master, but I have no idea. Anyway, Anamorphic actually has to do with the shape of a camera lens.

Also, Laserman is right that you do not gain any extra resolution doing 16:9 encodes from 4:3 sources, but Hollywood does when they do their process.

I'm not trying to top anyone elses project at all. I would be happy with the Torrent Files instead of redoing my own project if they had two things. If they were redone on dual layered discs and if ESB wasn't missing 17 seconds (that's a result of the first pressing of the Definitive Collection LD's). I'm glad I have a later pressing. I actually didn't know about that flaw when I got mine, so I panicked when I found out about it and was relieved when I saw mine were okay.

I can't wait until dual layered burners come out and someone writes a guide on how to use them or how they work as I have questions.
1.) Do you split the movies in half like I did on my 2 disc versions and have the authoring software join the two halves together?
2.) Do you keep the movie as one big file and let the authoring software split it?
3.) Can you tell the authoring software where to make the layer break?

All of my questions are basically about the same thing. I'll probably have to upgrade my encoder as well as it looks like it only supports single layer which is understandable since it is a couple years old.

Maybe Laserman can fill me in on how the dual layered burners work since he has access to one. I'm very curious as going dual layer is going to be a big revolution.

Also, mine have very simple menus with no THX logo. I didn't want a THX logo on my discs or covers as THX wasn't involved in creating the DVD's. I'm not knocking them, but I think they would be insulted to have their logo displayed on something homemade.

I hate to make a correction, but all of the Star Wars films are 2.35:1 instead of 1.78:1.

Patrick