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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knots4ever" data-source="post: 371779" data-attributes="member: 4475">You’re just being romantic which is proven by the example you’ve just used.Viavision is a small Aussie company with 11 employees. They buy rights cheaply for Australia only (a very small market). They then dump everything on discs, package them in boxes printed in China and sell them without region code and by making use of a grey area in law, internationally.They don’t improve the quality of what they get or indeed do anything to it. They don’t even add subtitles if they aren’t supplied with the master files.Total revenue last year was less than $700,000 (Aussie).No big studio is going to cheaply sell rights to them or similar companies (there’s another one in Germany operating in a similar fashion).Where studios go through the laborious and expensive process of remastering something, they do it for their own benefit. And that brings us back to my original point - why add more costs by making BluRays where that is unlikely to be cost-effective? Much easier to simply distribute to streaming services in return for licensing fees. For those who have their own streaming service, easy to put it on that as well. It bulks out content and in turn might bring in a few hundred additional subscribers.However you feel about it, businesses exist to make money and unless run badly, they will not do something that eats into profits.</blockquote>