althor1138 said:

That was my intention in the beginning and then I thought I'd try to make it more presentable but like you guys say it just messes up detail etc etc. I think I've come full circle with it and I'm planning on releasing the 480p letterbox untouched and then an anamorphic that has levels adjusted and saturation adjusted if need be.

That sounds great!

djchaseb said:

I enjoyed the 720 anamorphic streams.

I feel that for the sake of clarity its worth mentioning this as there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding generally about what 'anamorphic' actually is.

Anamorphic widescreen means widescreen image 'squashed' to a fullscreen frame. Widescreen DVD's are mostly anamorphic (encoded to 720x480/720x576 and stretched back to widescreen on playback by the TV or DVD player). Those that aren't are those that have been letterboxed (like widescreen Laserdiscs) and therefore have fewer lines of vertical resolution for the film as the black bars occupy a large amount of space. You won't see the term 'anamorphic' on most Blu-Ray's, however, as they are encoded to a native widescreen resolution, being 1280x720, or 1920x1080. Anamorphic widescreen in HD does exist though, and is encoded to 1440x1080. This is mostly used on TV broadcasts for bandwidth reasons.

Hope that explanation was of use and won't be taken the wrong way, I just figured its useful information. ;)