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Originally Posted by kingbuxton
I am going to go Blue Ray when Watchmen comes out. Was wondering what old stuff looks like in HD.
Take an old film "Godfather" anything will do tbh, do they look better in HD over DVD? I have this thing in my head that "HD" is "DIGITAL" and anything that isn't is kinda "ANALOG" for want of a better way to describe it.
Kinda like, how can Ben Hur filmed on a normal camera be HD when compared to new films that are shot on Digital cameras? Are films shot in the old style when taken as raw "like a wav file" still too big to fit on a DVD and so you get them "as filmed" on a BR disk, no compression etc?
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If the film was recorded on film (I believe some stuff from the 80s was recorded on Video), and the transfer is done well, then, yes, HD transfers will look a lot better than SD (Standard Def) transfers.
Remember, Analog film (in so far as it has a set resolution) is a *lot* higher resolution than HD, even Full HD. I don't know the exact resolution, but I know that visual effect houses tend to render their effects at something like 4000x4000.
If you can (I don't think they've been released in this country yet), look at the HD transfers of the Original Star Trek series. They look absolutely stunning.