[Stephen]

The reason we get old films in Hi Def is due to the film they were shot on.

For example films are made to be shown on a huge cinema screen so have to be of a decent resolution to be blown up to that scale, there for it is easy to take the film reels and in put t hem to a computer and made a Hi Def version of the film. They obviously might not look as great as a film thats actually shot using a HD camera.

I do have Blu-Ray and also HD DVD and personally I think that the HD DVDs look a lot better picture wise and interactivity of the bonus features is better. although with BLu-Ray 1.1 this should improve the interactive features.