So here is an interesting idea and perhaps a sort of peek in to the future, take a bit off a deep breath hear me out…
Ok so looking at the problems something like star wars faces being that there are so many different versions and sound mixes alternate footage and so on, and also the problem of trying to experience the film with new technology but wanting to still have say a crt quality a 35mm quality a home video quality or even say a 16mm quality.
I think I may have come up with a possible way to combine everything into a single release with an option to even make your own custom version.
I was looking at a game engine called unity3D and this game engine can handle video luts and shaders and i would imagine any form of programmed branching being an engine and I would also assume subtitle text.
So the premise of this radical idea is to have a default version perhaps say original Theatrical Technicolor Star Wars. This would be ported into a the game engine from here after it has been programmed You could simply check a box and this would apply a number of Luts to make it 16mm Star wars Check another box and it would be Star Wars Special edition. You might want to mix and match the theatrical version and the special edition by checking boxes for individual scenes that you wish included or removed You could chose a preffered sound mix subtitles and extra emulation effects such as CRT mode 35mm Projection Mode or standard modern LED/LCD.
Anyway Video ported and run in game engines could be an interesting way things could move forward and I don’t personally relish the old Laserdisc Arcade Games like firefox or dragons lair they were fun but pretty awful, but this is simply a way of giving more options and a better framework to some of the more absolute classic releases for which perhaps there could be a reasonable budget to produce such a thing.
Good concept? Let me know what you think of this possibility of the scope to running video in a game engine such as Unity3D and the flexibility and of such an release and also how much fun you could have with it?
The best delivery metod for something like this is either downloadable or solid state cartridges not discs as it is a more complex. Like sngular app for a multiple version film.