Just a thought here, but like if a 4K Blu-ray release does really come out, isn’t it going to be impossible to use it as a basis for any further fanedits or preservations?
Best of my knowledge, there’s no way to RIP a 4K disc yet, or at least ripping an exact copy of it.
Not yet, but weren’t we all hearing ten years ago about how more studios were supporting blu-ray because it had an extra layer of copy protection (BD+ IIRC)?
Nevertheless, here we are, barely five years after the official BD release of Star Wars, with Harmy working on a 1080p version of despecialized.
It stands to reason that if people figured out how to rip blu-rays, they will figure out how to rip uhd blu-rays as well.