Looks like new "4K remasterizations" are coming to DVD beginning with
Terminator 2 Judgement day....hope bigger picture quality on mpeg2

The same thing happens with every format. I have loads of digitally mastered LPs and of course many of the “best” LDs were made with HD masters.

Yes...best DVD releases I've seen are from HD Cam and direct Telecine to mpeg2....don't know why they aren't using the Bluray to directly encode the DVD!

I still don't get why DVD is still alive. I hope Blu-Ray and DVD gets discontinued soon.

i think these two fine specimens, among a great many exceptionally fine DVD players out there, might have words of exception with you over that;

I hope Blu-ray lasts forever. I think it’s great.

which was why PIONEER was somewhat wise to trot out an uncommonly overbuilt statement BD player a couple/three years back.
let's hope it proves as truly built for the ages as it certainly appears to be;

And in the end we have 10 diffrent formats in stores? Old formats have to die eventually.

So you want to buy T2 again in a new format yet again.

How many times can we keep buying the same movies over and over and over again just because it had some piece of dust removed that
we didn't even see before but now do since they pointed it out.

So you wouldn't buy T2 on a newer format, but instead you would buy a newly released remaster for an older one? Doesn't make sense to me. But this isn't a good example anyway. I thought more about future releases. Why would you choose the DVD version of a movie that exists on BD and DVD and I really mean fresh releases where the DVD and BD have the same master.

I definitely pick and choose my blu-ray movie purchases carefully.

Halloween II was released by Universal on blu-ray some years ago. The big selling point was the for the first time the "documentary" Terror in the Aisles was a supplement on the disc--first time it was released on a digital format (and was thought to never make the jump because of the many rights issues involved in with all the movie clips.) So I definitely picked that up.

Just two years ago, Shout Factory releases a "special edition" blu-ray with a handful new supplements and even better transfer.

I didn't bother with the newer release. Just wasn't worth a repurchase for a slightly cleaner picture and a couple new goodies.

Same thing with Disney's Beauty and the Beast. They released a "Diamond Edition" back in 2010 on blu-ray, which I got. But last year they released a "25th Anniversary Edition" which included an extended trailer for the new live-action film. Didn't even bother to check whatever else might be new in that edition as I definitely wasn't going to buy it again.

(plus the definitive version of the movie is the CAV LD release with the original colors)

So yeah, movies can be re-released over and over again, but you are by no means forced to buy them.

I sure as hell don't.

But also with blu-ray we are getting movies that weren't released on anything else save VHS. That is a good reason to upgrade, unless you like your movies in dark, grainy 240i resolution.

Yes, this is the only reason I purchased a bluray player.

Also there has to be a dramatic difference in extras, PQ or even audio

I still feel there will be a group of younger than hipsters who will be buying the special DVDs in the future, I still knew some who
would buy VHS tapes in the wild just because they were only .50 cents.