Right, but when I say its "not news" I mean that its a generally trivial matter that wouldn't be something he would be aware of. Its not his job to police home theatre forums and see what people are saying. That's the job of the home video department of the distributor. His interest in the release is probably to ask "how's the Blu Ray done?" and a distributor rep tells him, "great, we sold 18 million units in the first month of release", and he says "terrific!" and goes back to making Robin Hood. When he gets to the home video production of Robin Hood and meets with Charles Lazaruka again, he'll probably catch wind of the technical deficiencies of the Gladiator release, but I doubt he would be able to put out a new version so soon, and I especially doubt that the home video department would be interested in a recall given the projected sales of it as it is.

I just wouldn't expect the director to be so on top of things like this.