Sure hope Laserman will finally be cut some slack and get well. You guys should print a book with all his posts, I'd buy it!
EDIT: Remebered I had a short email conversation with him when the OT DVD's were being released, and I was still hoping the PAL DVD's would be superior. As I was reading them again I saw he already predicted they wouldn't be: "If they take the easy way out they will use the NTSC pressing master and just upscale for the PAL version. One would hope not, but it would be much less costly and faster for them to do. We will have to wait and see."