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Originally Posted by CDan Actually, an old film can easily be re-mastered in 1080i/p video and produce beautiful video that will surpass any DVD-quality transfer. However, except for companies like Criterion, don't expect to see this happening. Also keep in mind that you may well not SEE the differences on any screen smaller than about 60". Also keep in mind that most DVD's tend to run at about 1/2 the potential bitrate most of the time. So there's a lot of room for improved video even on a DVD if you remove the extra audio streams and extras. It's always about bitrate, whether it's a DVD or BD disc.
More often than not, I expect to see HD discs with DVD-quality video on them. I don't expect to see any studios doing expensive new transfers to get true HD quality, except for promotions and special editions. |
A. Most of these studios already made 1080p transfers when they made the dvd release. They find it gives a sharper image when you use the higher res to capture it then shrink it down to the dvd res in use. They just need to encode the video which can take time because they need to have it perfect with 0 artifacts but also take up the least amount of space as possible.
B. Yes old movies can look excellent at 1080p but you have to know the limitation of film as well. It isn't as sharp as high def digital video cameras. This is also a reason why not a lot of movies arn't transfering over to digital because it will capture every imperfection on an actors face/skin. With film that is usually blurred out by just the film being the film it is. Also you still have tons of grain and noise produced by the film that can only be cleaned up so much. Will High def dvd relases look better then DVD's yes but don't expect miracles.