I can’t find it at the moment, but a certain documentary on Toy Story from '99 spends a great deal of time explaining the tedious process of how the computer animation was processed in layers onto the negative. While it’s true that the digital master is a generation above any print that was struck, the Toy Story archived in the National Film Registry is the one we saw in the theaters in '95. It’s the version that still had that lengthy filmic rendering process retained, but in all releases past the VHS that achievement is, for all intents and purposes, cut out of the film.

Not to say there’s anything wrong with the new master; a digital render of a completely digital movie isn’t the worse thing that could happen to a film.