It started as just a discussion of the Blu-ray release. One of the forum members is a video engineer who worked on the 2004 master and has talked about how Fox/LFL were trying to meet rush deadlines and made mastering decisions even he didn’t agree with. So he had to defer to George as the final arbiter.
I linked to the Visual comparison site over there so that people who were already confused by the post 97 releases could go down the rabbit hole…