bruceames
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If we wait until they spend $100k or more on obscure movies to restore them, as a condition for its release, then we'll be waiting forever. You just have to accept them as they are and IMO, that's a lot better than not getting it at all.OliverK said:I wonder how much it will cost to bring a title to Blu-ray including the image harvest from the remaining elements, I doubt the studios are able to do it below 100.000$ per title and often costs will be considerably higher. Now divide that by the money made on each disc for the studio and there you have the minimum numbers of discs to be sold at a certain price point to break even from purely a business perspective which is probably what applies for titles that need not be saved or preserved with a certain urgency.In the case of Sony it is at least interesting that they do not even try to release discs from some of their new 4k masters themselves, a good example being Hard Times that looks fantastic. So even with the master ready to go they do not want to do a release - that should tell us something about how they gauge the interest in this particular release, another example that is certainly more shocking (4k harvest and release from TT) is Philadelphia which I would have considered fairly popular.