All this talk of calibration or the ways you guys might like to archive stuff or make boxes, etc. is not coming from anything he’s said, but what you like to do. Let’s get his actual requirements first, and then see if any of our preferences fit his needs before we push anything else on him.
I’m totally with you on that. These things we have said have been in direct response to your question about why anyone would choose blu-ray. They should not be applied to his situation, necessarily.
We were in the midst of trying to get him to understand the different options, and what the requirements are for each of them. He has been getting his wires crossed with all of the various options, so we were trying to make it more clear for him before this tangent occurred.