Looks like you're trying your hardest not to understand what he meant with his comment.
Looks like you came late to a conversation that'd already sorted itself out amiably without your help, thanks.
Nope, Jaws is not really a good example because of all the degraining. There are even some motion artifacts caused by DNR.
I dunno, if there are artifacts, I didn't catch em. But I'm not (and never have been) the greatest at catching those. Haloing & banding are the two that jump out at me the easiest, but stuff like black crush and specifically blocking/artifacting if brief enough (and if I'm sitting close enough to the projector screen) can get by me in some cases.
Jaws looks fucking phenomenal on blu-ray, to me, and more importantly, fit for the comparison regarding "modernity" I was trying to make.
I know there are transfers that could have made a similar point (I also really like the way North by Northwest looks on blu, for example) but Jaws was the one that jumped to mind.
edit: Nice, DPP is in here!
edit edit: Of course the OriginalTrilogy mad scientists are trying to fix this. those guys are crazy in the best ways