What if the Disney classic Fantasia was launched on Blu?

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by markjdye

Irwin Kostal re-recorded all of the music for Fantasia in 1982 onto a digital recorder. (One of the first.)

And then they restored the original sountrack BACK onto 5.1, for the '01 DVD set--
Unfortunately, they'd lost about 3/4 of the Deems Taylor narration over thirty years of assorted cuts, so we'd had to settle for a dubbed imitator.
Still, the '01 restoration does end a few questions in the thread.

Fantasia '00, OTOH, was already film-mastered for IMAX, which--like the Beauty/Beast, Lion King and Aladdin upgrades--puts it ahead in line for a Blu version, seeing as its turn in the Platinums should be coming up soon...
Now, as noted, if the studio can only get over their 4:3 phobia (which seems to be hypnotizing the audience into ignoring 4:3 movies, as well--Snap out of it, people!)

(Oh, and before somebody brings up the half-informed "But Walt said the original flopped, didn't it?"--
The original movie ran for a year in the big cities--But Walt had to sell the '40 movie to RKO for the small-town engagements just to pay his stereo-sound bills, and you don't want to know how RKO chopped the thing to ribbons... )