ITunes Movies vs. non-anamorphic DVD: which is better?

Here's how it is: I have the movie 2010 on DVD. It is widescreen, but only letterboxed - it's not anamorphic (i.e. it's not enhanced for 16x9 televisions). As a result, whenever I watch it, I have to zoom in on the image, which kills the quality pretty bad.
My question is, since 2010 is available to buy from iTunes (I'm intentionally ignoring the HD version since it's only available to rent, not buy, and I want to buy), should I buy that and throw away the DVD? Since the DVD is not anamorphic, and I have to zoom the image to watch it, would the iTunes version be of better or worse quality?
(since I can only assume that the iTunes version of this movie is 'anamorphic' in that sense - i.e. it doesn't need to be 'zoomed')

jeff@pixelrally wrote:
Problem solved: the USB-2 cable was the choke-point.
I was transferring the LR4 catalog to a jump drive using a USB-3 cable that had backwards-compatibility to USB-2...
I think he means, "I was using a USB2 cable or drive with a USB3 interface (or vice-versa)." This limits you to about 15-20 MB/sec write transfer speed (i.e. limited by USB2 file transfer speed and not the drive speed). USB3 external drives have about 50-60 MB write transfer speed, or about 3-4 times faster than a USB2 interface (or USB2 cable) transfer.
That would explain this: "ended up taking an hour or so," and "Copying it to my newer machine went way faster: less than 20 minutes!"
60 / 20 = 3x

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