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“Focus groups?” Jimmy laughed without smiling. “Since when do we answer to focus groups? I’ll tell you what this is. This is a shakedown. You put out a garbage transfer now, then in two years you put out the ‘Director’s Preferred’ version with the grain re-added and charge sixty bucks. You’re robbing these people, Gary.”

“What do you want?” Gary whispered.

That’s when Frankie “The Scanner” Carbone walked in. Frankie was Jimmy’s protégé, a kid who could spot a missing chroma channel from fifty paces. Goodfellas Dvdbeaver

Jimmy stood up slowly. He walked to his bookshelf and pulled down the holy grail: the 2007 Warner Bros. Blu-ray. The real one. The one with the warm color timing and the living, breathing grain.

“I’m gonna post this,” Jimmy said. “And then I’m gonna post the email where you told the studio that ‘consumers prefer plastic skin.’ And after that, Gary? You’re gonna be the most hated man in the home-theater forums. They’re gonna find out where you live. They’re gonna send you screenshots of bad compression artifacts every day for the rest of your life. You understand? You’re gonna be made . Made into a meme.” “Focus groups

The Beaver shifted in his seat. “Jimmy, the studio wanted it clean. Focus groups said grain looks ‘old.’”

Not the real Henry Hill—the wiseguy turned rat. No, this was a ghost. A 4K ghost. The studios had just announced Goodfellas for the fifth time: a “Dolby Vision Ultimate Collector’s Edition.” The forums were on fire. But Jimmy knew the score. This is a shakedown

And then Henry Hill came calling.