negative1, I agree that it's best to focus on the positive and what the future will bring us. But there's one thing you said that I have to disagree with:

negative1 said:
i had them all on laserdisc, and since those were the best quality at the time, i didn't notice any difference on the dvds, which were the same quality, so what was there to complain about?

By this logic, if the GOUT masters were released as-is onto Blu Ray, there would be no room to complain, since they're the same quality as the GOUT DVDs.

The GOUT is a drop in quality for a DVD release. Not a drop in quality of the actual image itself, but a drop in the quality of effort that LFL put into the release. LFL has long had a reputation (up to the late 90s, at least) for releases that pushed the technological edge. The GOUT definitely did NOT push the edge. It was a stale, 13-year-old crumb.