M76
[H]F Junkie
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Get this: I'm not saying everyone should get everything for free, which you seem to be arguing against, which is a terrible strawman. I'm merely suggesting that instead of early adopters subsidizing newcomers getting a better a version, it should be the other way around. Newcomers should subsidize early adopters upgrade to the better version.If the world worked like that, we'd start with the best, and work our way downwards.
You know it doesn't work that way. Old movies (and even some newer ones) are shot on shitty 35mm film and then stored in shitty vaults where they still age and give you all the best in film grain. You can BARELY get 4k resolution out of those cheap 35mm when they were new, let-alone twenty years later.
It takes us years to work-up to the next big step in digital resolution and fidelity. For something that started in DVD, capturing those in 1080p, let-alone 4k requires remastering (removing all the crap, while not blurring the living shit out of the movie).
The costs of these remasters goes down every year, but they are never free. They do the remaster when the cost of doing it is exceeded by expected sales. If they gave it away for free to consumers, the only remasters that would ever happen are trash films you see on TV all the time (they would be paid for by the networks).
But of course the networks would never release those movies they paid to remaster to you on disc for free. Printing discs costs money, even in your dreamworld.
The home digital movie revolution means you end-up paying for the restoration, if you want to add some less-popular movies to your collection. Because that technology is constantly advancing.
It may well work that way in the future when everything is digital and is shot in 8k, but we're not even close to that yet. So maybe you can be more accepting of the cost of advancements being paid for by consumers like you that are SLOWLY moving us toward a "best first, pay once" solution you're dreaming of here
Say I got a game's collectors edition for $80. Instead of me and the guy who never paid anything both having to pay $20 for the remastered version now. Newcomers should pay $25 and I should be able to upgrade for $10. That would be a fair system.
There is a difference between completely free and early adopters getting a discount.