I was writing a post about how the 2004/2011 transfer and how it could be surpassed in detail by a modern transfer from the same sources and how on top of that, we only have a compressed version of it at our disposal and an idea struck me:

People who do LaserDisc transfers often do several captures and then average those captures to gain as clear an image as possible, free from artifacts not present in the source but introduced randomly during the capture - now if one were to take all the available versions of the 2004 transfer (the various HDTV captures, the Blu-Ray, the digital versions from various providers) and average them in the same manner, could one get closer to the uncompressed master that way? It obviously wouldn’t work for the shots that have been changed between the 2004 and 2011 versions but those could be replaced with an average of only the HDTV sources.

Now, I’m not necessarily proposing this be done, and I’m definitely not saying I would do it, because I don’t have the know-how nor do I have access to all those sources; I’m just asking if it could be done and if there would be any merit to doing it.