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BenHur is encoded at 27 Mbs. That's not unusually generous. Many Criterion blurays overflowing with extras, are in the 37 Mb/s range:

A blu-ray is 50 gigabytes, and has a maximum av bitrate of, iirc, 45 Mbs. Some mastering engineers actually use the full rate, or close to it-- there's no particular incentive to save bits.
The Darjeeling Limited, of all films, devotes 35 Mbs to video, and 3.5 Mbs to audio.
I'm sure that a streaming version uses less-- 50 Mbs broadband isn't very common, and some network providers fret over caps and quotas.
But if you build it, I'm sure you could find a use for it.

... of formaldehyde. Like this.

That assumes that the DVD was transferred competently in the first place. For instance, did you know that the Atreides uniforms (in David Lynch's Dune) are actually green, and not black?

That assumes that the DVD was transferred competently in the first place. For instance, did you know that the Atreides uniforms (in David Lynch's Dune) are actually green, and not black?

A masterpiece? You must have very low standards because Sunshine really, really sucked.

Logan's Run sucked too, but I could forgive it a little due to the age, Michael York and Richard Jordan. Jenny Agutter in that hot-ass skimpy clothing helped a lot too.

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews31/a%20caged/a%20trog%20PDVD_004.jpg

"...who says that people with bigger heads are any smarter in the first place?"

This guy does.

What about a Repo Man going into outer space?

It appears to have finally happened: the ever-shrinking distance between now and nostalgia has finally reached its zero-state. We are now nostalgic for our present.

Heck, I've been nostalgic for the future for a while now. It's almost 2008, where are our flying cars and cities on the Moon?

This nice page visually compares the Koyaanisqatsi premium and MGM mass market DVDs. The artwork on the back of my MGM DVD showed 50+ scenes from the movie, all of which showed the unmatted 4:3 compositions I loved and remembered. The "widescreen" DVD butchered my favorite shots, and is actually thinner than fullscreen.

Koyaanisqatsi has some squished anamorphic stock footage of strip mine explosions. These scenes were left as is in the 4:3 original, then masked for DVD in complete disregard for the original source's intended aspect ratio.

I'm increasingly bothered by PBS "documentaries" cropping historic 4:3 newsreel footage to 16:9 and giving a blatantly false version of recorded history. If documentarians need to fill widescreen TVs, they should use smart stretch, not second guess professional photographers of the past.