My worry is that bringing up the "restoration" word is sort of playing straight into their argument. They're using the 'it's too spendy to restore' these films excuse, and so talking about restoration is like throwing a fat-change up down the middle. I'd rather argue for a simple NEW SCAN. You don't have to restore, you don't have to clean up every last frame of dirt or whatever--just get more detail in there. Scan the film elements, do a quick pass, and output that to DVD. Much easier than all the cleaning and frame by frame, and certainly a lot less expensive. Plus it runs around the end of their argument about money and time constraints.