avoidz said:

It was interesting to read that reply from Robert Harris.

Although this bit:

While many of us prefer the original versions, that does not control the marketplace.

The marketplace has been sold the hyped SE versions and never offered the originals since the early 1990s, so that kind of shapes the demand for those movies.

That's my logic as well. I've been in sales all my working life and I've always taken the attitude that you can't second-guess the market. Saying something won't sell because it doesn't sell now when the reason it doesn't sell now is because it's not available in the first place is the marketing equivalent of a self-fulfilling prophecy.