However, The questions were more in the vein of 'Why spend all this time and effort on a straight transfer rather than a restoration effort like mverta'.
The answer is of course that we need a better transfer than what is currently available to restore *from*. In the absence of another original source, the LD set is all we have, so eeking the best quality out of it is all important.
And also, I can only sleep at night once I know there is an archive of the original laserdiscs that is as good or better than the laserdiscs themselves.