I just have to wonder though if the cart wasn't put before the horse this time around. Would be interesting to know about the order of filming decisions made for the Hobbit. Was investing in a handful of RED epic cameras done before screen tests? What if PJ was unhappy with the look of the film in the early stages, could he have switched gears or was the momentum of such a huge film already too big? Like trying to turn an ocean liner 180 degrees. I have to say that I know squat about making movies any way so this is all just a thought.

Considering perfection. I tend to prefer the lossless kind of media as well because I think the purity of production is a worthwhile effort, but what I was trying to get at (in not so many words) is that perfection is impossible. Music will never be perfect when transferred to another media. But playing records might be more about other things than audio quality. I was just at a friends for NYE and his record player has a staging mechanism that will drop one record on top of the other to play when the first is finished. It was such a cool machine. And it made me more aware of the space and time of a collection of songs that can fit onto one side of a vinyl record. Of course, this could be considered super annoying to some people. For me, there is a huge difference between hearing music and listening to music.