Are you suggesting that the only way we will ever get the OOT would be to reconstruct it from the DVDs/future Blu-rays of the SE? Because that isn't happening. There is too much footage missing. And the 04 DVDs are incredibly messed up. Since LFL made the claim that they were intentially messed up as a creative decision, I suspect they will perpetuate their continual messed uppedness.

And I am not sure what you mean by needed to accept the GOUT. I am probably on a completely misunderstanding you, so don't take it the wrong way when I say that we absolutely don't have to accept the GOUT. It is unacceptable. It looks fine enough on old technology, which works for me because I tend to prefer keeping antiques around the house and saving my money (i.e. ten years from now I might have an HD TV, if I find one in the trash or if someone sells me their old one on the cheap), but for anyone using modern technology, the things are way, way, way below standard, and not just by today's standards, they were way below the standards of five years before their release. Far from needing to accept them, we need to take them into the backyard and pee on them.

Of course, I imagine you meant that we need to accept the fact that they are the best official release we will ever get. In this case, you may well be right, but I think there will be a better release down the road. My prediction is that eventually we will see a Blu-ray release of the OOT following the DVD standards of today, or a few years ago. This will of course be pretty freaking awesome, just as the GOUT was awesome in its own severly belated way, but it will once again be too little too late as well as a very transparent attempt at keeping the OOT looking like a second hand VHS tape in comparison to the SE.