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I actually doubt that. I’m used to seeing repressings with older keys. It’s gone from being a high volume, high margin business to bring a low volume, low margin business. We seem to keep going around in circles on this point and I really don’t want to come across as disrespectful or...

I remember a lot of those. The thing today though is that sales numbers are nowhere near being in the same universe as they were then. In the vast majority of cases, for the vast majority of catalog titles, it doesn’t make financial sense to update a disc for “under the hood” type changes. There...

That’s pretty much what happened when Warner started distributing Paramount years ago; they put a new UPC sticker over the shrink wrap with a “distributed by Warner” in tiny print under the new barcode. Catalog is such a low volume business these days that it just doesn’t pay to redo the work...

I would imagine that the cost of reauthoring and repressing discs would exceed whatever licensing fee there would be for using the existing discs.

It’s more likely that Warner will repress the existing disc rather than reauthor, even if it contain’s another studio’s logo. MGM isn’t likely to foot the bill to redo the discs just for the logos. When Warner was distributing Paramount, they repressed the extant disc with all the old menus and...