And I suppose Sony will want to re-re-rerelease all those titles from the MGM/UA library on DVD. So we can look forward to yet another box set of Bond films (probably after the re-mastered ones MGM has in the pipeline already).

What are your thoughts?

If JL is right though and we get pan & scan discs or if they make both films and scores unavailable or out and out trash the stuff they think are over the hill, then this is a disaster. The Japanese tend to be meticulous about their own past materials so maybe they'll feel the same here. Of course, it's possible the Japanese may issue quality product in Japan and give us crap domestically.

Of course, my radical solution is that all culture older than 20 years should belong to the people and be available to all from the Library of Congress so we don't have to sweat any of these losses ever again, but that goes against the grain of the $$$ to be made buying and selling libraries like this in the first place.