Have you forgotten that the video on these DVD's is MPEG-compressed, quite unlike the LD's? So much for "fidelity". //sigh
"There are DVD players on the market for these kind of people that will turn non-anamorphic video into anamorphic on the fly. "
Even if this were true (which it isn't), it would imply the very bastardization of the video you claim is a bad thing to begin with.