Brooks said:

THAT was acceptable, and not dvd??).

That's a neat story about your involvement with the dvds. Were the star wars scans used for the dvds (and apparently blu rays) stored there on standard def digit-betas? What an awesome sounding job you had!

RE: VHS vs DVD, yeah, that was the first crack in the seams, wasn't it?

I think (and this is conjecture based on how I understood the normal processes at the time) the digi-betas were just the sub-masters for the DVDs. The Hi-Def (2K or 1080, not sure how they're stored) masters were, IIRC, D5 tapes.

And the job was SUPER fun. Low paying, but maybe my favorite job ever. As you an imagine, getting to be the Star Wars gate keeper was an exciting honor, even though it just meant not telling anyone what was in the new safe for a few days.