While some would argue that the best way to learn is to make mistakes (and I'd normally agree), it just seems that you're throwing yourself into a project you don't really understand, while all the time telling us - not asking us - what you don't know. It's like a twitter feed from a pinball.

To answer your initial question, yes - I for one would love to see a preservation of the 1997 VHS tapes, which I fondly remember going out and buying in my first month at university and then watching with a group of friends on a 14" TV.

But now we've bounced from pan&scan VHS tapes, which you didn't know very much about (until Wikipedia helped out), to letterboxed laserdiscs, which you know even less about.

There are some incredibly dedicated and knowledgeable folks on here, turning out work of astonishing quality - if you want to play in the same sandpit, at least make a basic effort to do some research and fill in the gaps in your own knowledge.

And, as I frequently remind the nine-year-olds I teach, if you want to be taken remotely seriously, work on the grammar. Your last post suggests that you know at least the basics of full stop / period placement, and since it makes the difference between appearing competent and incompetent I'd really advise that you use them.

IMO, FWIW etc.