Personally I'm excited about this, but also afraid that we may only get cropped and/or non-anamorphic and/or non-remastered transfers

Any opinions?

I think it's great, but don't get too excited about it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I take this to mean only movies that have been previously available in their catalog of DVDs at some point. I highly doubt they're going to do a full-on film transfer of something that's never been on DVD before just because somebody requests it. I think this is just for titles that are hard-to-find.

Still, this can be a good thing anyway. I can't count the number of times I've thought of a movie I wanted to purchase that I know has been on DVD, only to go out looking for it and find that none of the stores will carry it because it's too old or obscure, and not in their top 500 (or whatever). And so I usually end up looking for some place to order it online. This at least give me another option.

It's a start. A first step into a larger world, hopefully.

--SKot