LegendaryPOO said:
It just could be impossible to recover even if he wanted to, so hes making himself out to be a grinch instead of a fool.
Members here (that know a lot more about film preservation than I do) will tell you that there are any number of sources (mostly involving acronyms I don't understand) that could be used to do a Blu-ray transfer equal in quality to other movies from the 70's and 80's.