skyjedi2005 said:

Also film is archival digitally stored video is not.

I'm surprised nobody is shocked that the prequels and special editions being stored in this way is utterly foolish unless George Had them bounce the digital video back to film for archival purposes.

I don't know where you get this idea from. Film decays over time. Digitally stored video (think of an array of hard drives) will look the same in 10 years that it does today. Do you think LFL doesn't have redundant discs? They have all kinds of redundant storage and backups. As long as they keep moving the data to new storage as new media becomes available (large drives, larger optical media, larger tapes, etc), there will be no loss at all.

I have data on mirrored drives that goes back 10 years, possibly longer. If one drive fails, I simply replace it and I'm good to go. That's all digitally stored (1s and 0s) so it's all archival. I even have video on DV tapes that still looks the same today as it did when it was shot, just about 10 years ago. Assuming I get the video off the tape and onto a hard drive, I don't have to worry about the tape degrading.

Bouncing the digital video to film wouldn't do any good in the case of the PT anyway. They were shot in 1080p, so storing it on hard drives would be just as good, if not better, as storing it on film.