Forget Blu-Ray, ICL Holds The DVD Key
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Spanky The Dolphin
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Ah, yes, it can be improved. 480 scanlines is teh suckyAlyeska wrote:My biggest concern is backwards compatibility. I have no intention on tossing out my current library (unless they rerelease some of the newer movies in HD format which current DVD does not really allow) for a new format. This isn't like the VHS-to-DVD switch. For the most part whats currently on DVD can't be improved anymore.
BD-ROM and HD-DVD players will play DVD content but obviously not vice versa.
If the movie wasn't filmed in Hi Def, I doubt it can be improved. I have some movies from the 50s and 60s for crying outloud. How the hell can they be improved on a new standard?phongn wrote:Ah, yes, it can be improved. 480 scanlines is teh suckyAlyeska wrote:My biggest concern is backwards compatibility. I have no intention on tossing out my current library (unless they rerelease some of the newer movies in HD format which current DVD does not really allow) for a new format. This isn't like the VHS-to-DVD switch. For the most part whats currently on DVD can't be improved anymore.
BD-ROM and HD-DVD players will play DVD content but obviously not vice versa.
Now anyone who filmed in enough quality to put it as HD, I can understand porting that over. I can also understand porting over non HD movies for the newer people getting started to keep it on one standard. But forcing people to outright move when they have invested hundreds (some times thousands) of dollars on a movie collection just doesn't strike me as good business.
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Part of it is because current DVDs aren't even half of the resolution of film.
Another is that you can put more content on fewer discs.
Another is that you can put more content on fewer discs.
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Remastering the film into digital is a possibility, and may yield a SLIGHT quality increase, but nowhere near hi-def... especially film that's decades old.If the movie wasn't filmed in Hi Def, I doubt it can be improved. I have some movies from the 50s and 60s for crying outloud. How the hell can they be improved on a new standard?
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35mm film stock is effectively 4000 scanlines.Alyeska wrote:If the movie wasn't filmed in Hi Def, I doubt it can be improved. I have some movies from the 50s and 60s for crying outloud. How the hell can they be improved on a new standard?
No-one is forcing you to buy an entirely new set of movies. Your old ones will still play, right?Now anyone who filmed in enough quality to put it as HD, I can understand porting that over. I can also understand porting over non HD movies for the newer people getting started to keep it on one standard. But forcing people to outright move when they have invested hundreds (some times thousands) of dollars on a movie collection just doesn't strike me as good business.