Patton and The Longest Day

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no one can really say what an artists intent would be if they had our existing tech available to them at the time

Right you are. Hence the most respectful, truthful way to present any film is the way it was *originally* created. Take the old Spielberg / Lucas debate for example. Spielberg freely admits that he would never have made "Jaws" or "Close Encounters" the way he did in 1975 and 1977. But he sees those films as an example of the kind of filmmaker that he was at that stage in his life and doesn't change them in 2009. George Lucas, on the other hand, is always finding something to do "better" with his old films with modern technology. Is the new version of "A New Hope" *better* than the old version just because it's the way George Lucas wants it seen today as opposed to how he was able to make it look in 1977? I'll let you be the judge of that. The point is, the original, untouched, non-manipulated version should be an option for those of us who believe in the importance of that preservation. And an excessively DNR'ed image is *not* a representation of the original work. It isn't about what's better or worse. Those concepts are subjective by definition. The simple fact is that a non-DNR'ed disc is faithful to the original image and an excessively DNR'ed one is not. Again, if someone decides that they prefer the look of more DNR, that's a decision they should personally be allowed to make on their own television set without forcing it on the rest of us.