I don't think DVD even supports discrete 6.1 but I could be wrong. Anyway, I finally managed to get the HDTV version and it's definitely better than the DVD, although it looks more like a very decent anamorphic DVD in terms of resolution. The Japanese subs aren't much of a problem, because it seems they were partially in the black boarder and were cropped off, so they only appear at the very bottom of the picture from time to time (only when there was a two line subtitle). They also don't bother me much, since to me they're just meaningless scribbles, so I find them much less distracting then I would say Spanish or French or even Czech subtitles. The AR doesn't seem quite right (slight vertical stretch) but that's easily fixed when watching on a computer.