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Originally Posted by JethroUK
Who knows what res they scanned them in the first place & if they're showing them directly from tape they'd easily upscale it to HD, but either way they would benefit from being shown in HD. The 'old PAL videotape' still captured faaaaaaaaar more detail than lousy 1080 res we are being treated to at the mo
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Really? What resolution would you expect to get from the tapes commonly in use when film prints of Batman, The Professionals, The Saint etc were being copied over (I'm assuming the tape format would be Betacam, or one of its successors)? So far, I've not been able to find any source that suggests that family of professional recording/mastering tapes was capable of capturing resolution in excess of 1080. Discussion of quality regarding those formats seems to revolve around the composite recording technique, which AFAIK would not improve the resolution of the image.
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I've seen a few of the old Sean Connery Bond movies in HD on my telebox and they are clearly much better than in SD
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Again, the question is, have they gone back to the original prints and remasterd the broadcast tape, or are they upscaling? If the former then it's no surprise it looks better. If the latter then all well and good, but as you can get home equipment that does a perfectly competent job of upscaling, it draws us back to the original issue ... What, really, is the advantage in having an HD version of a channel on your EPG when that channel's output consists largely of upscaled SD programmes?