CatBus said:

Mike O said:

Most of all though, this can't just be about Blu-Ray, because as other formats come, we need to stress the need for a release of it in all future formats.

Actually, I disagree here. Once a (35mm, 24fps) movie has a good Blu-Ray release, it's effectively preserved for posterity. Sure there are plenty of screwups with DNR and cyan/teal and all that, but assuming a PROPER transfer were done... that's it. I'm happy. Forever.

Agreed, I'd only add that IMO a movie can be considered preserved if there is a decent lossless master. Blu-Ray itself still has compression artefacts, which would probably show on a really big screen. I really don't think more resolution than 1080p is necessary (though it is welcome) but lossless is. So what I'm saying is yes, a movie is effectively preserved once properly released on BD, but only provided the lossless master made for the BD release is kept.

And that's part of what needs to be straightened out too. Lucas has successfully painted Star Wars fans as impossible to please. We need to illustrate that it's actually just the opposite. There's a movie out there called "Ernest Scared Stupid". It probably has fans. But those fans don't plaster the Internet with rage because you can get that movie on Blu Ray, and it's the exact same movie they would have seen in the theatre. They are satisfied. Star Wars fans are no harder to please than any other group of fans. They are just more dissatisfied than any other group of fans because the expectations they have--those same really easy-to-meet expectations all fans of all movies have--have been frustrated for well over a decade now. Fans of Star Wars envy fans of Ernest Scared Stupid.

Totally true. Also films like the Alien movies, Close Encounters, Blade Runner, Terminator films and others, all have different versions included in the same BD boxset, so like you say, we are not hard to please at all, we just want what is commonplace for fans of other franchises.