The "benefits" of Anamorphic will be reaped solely by those who are in possession of 16:9 displays. If you're watching these on a standard 4:3 TV, the anamorphic will mean nothing for you really. I'm unfamiliar with the process of making the image anamorphic, so I can't really say if it will be worse or not. Making an image anamorphic artificially seems to me to have an inherent limitation built into it. Whether that limitation translates to a worse picture on a 4:3 set, or merely a somewhat less than stellar picture on a 16:9 display, I can't say.

I currently have the TR47 Trilogy, the Farisght Anamorphic, and the Dr. Gonzo Anamorphic.

I personally like the TR47 transfer best of all of them... on my 4:3 TV. On the 16:9 set, not so much. It's not anamorphic, but it's not as soft as the other transfers, which I suspect might be an issue to do with the anamorphic conversion. That said, it's not a perfect transfer. I'm surprised that the black bars were left in the film as is, instead of being removed with his encoder program and replaced with solid black which would have taken up a lot less space. If I could do it back in 99, he can certainly do it now. All that really requires is going back and replacing the subtitles, seems worthwhile to me.

Farsight. I was really excited about this set when I first heard about it. I even prefered the Farsight Jedi ot the Gonzo Jedi. But, Farsights ANH is just unbelievably bad. By far the worst transfer of ANH I have ever seen. Worse than my old vhs cassettes. The colours bleed badly, the image is in very poor condition. I don't know if this is an issue of the capturing, the source material or what. It seriously looks like it was captured through unsheilded RCA cables that had several power cables laying on top of them. For all of farsights good intentions, the end result is dramatically inconsistent.

Dr. Gonzo. These are nice decent transfers. A bit on the soft side (a problem I notice on the anamorphic sets) but nothing too upsetting. One issue I've had, and this may just be my downloads, but for me, the audio always drops out noticeably during the millenium falcon being captured by the tractor beem sequence. My first download it dropped out enourmously, the second time, only a bit, but still noticeable.

I'm really looking forward to MeBeJedi's set, he's been putting a lot of effort into these, and I'm eager to see the results. I'm tired of watching my definitive collection, swapping discs isn't my bag baby.