Just remember that the resolution increase isn't the only thing; there's also improved contrast and colour fidelity, which becomes more apparent on newer features than older ones. Still, I totally understand your POV.
David, what special challenges have you encountered in authoring and encoding, particularly in reference to effects-heavy films? Particularly, I'm thinking of Flash Gordon which has a lot of optical work.
Agreed. I am reminded of the work you posted about on The Godfather trilogy, in which you showed damaged frames, severe scratches and the like, not to mention the work on all your other projects. I appreciate that Criterion usually puts harvest details under a heading called "About the Transfer"...
As RAH stated above, there are some great post houses, and FotoKem is one of them; however, the actual restoration work is done by people with the requisite training and experience to know what to do with that raw data once it moves into the digital realm.