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  • #32
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Voodu Child wrote: »
    Back in the late 90s they would have taken the film reel, scanned it at under 2k and used that to make the dvd.

    Fast forward 10 years and they decide to just reuse that old scan instead of doing it again with modern equipment.

    The scan being done at 2k but by the time it got to dvd it was reduced to around 420p resolution?


  • #33
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    I was a bit unsure of HD when it first reared it's head years ago. "Clearer picture...............big whoop!"

    But as HD is becoming more common I have to say I'm finding it harder to watch stuff in the SD format. Blu-ray films are unbelievable but you won't realise it unless you have a big enough TV and more than 2 speakers.

    Transfers of old films I love more-so than new films. It gives a wierd novelty that the film looks like it wasn't made too long ago (Bladerunner & Alien are a fine example).

    Films going back for as far as the eye can see have always been in a HD (or close) format, it was the quality of storage (VHS, CD, DVD, Data tapes) that had to have the film compressed. Some transfers of film are shoddily done to make a quick buck when they're transfered from a master reel and not cleaned up but when they are...................good grief.

    Give it another few years, naturally HD will replace the current format.


  • #34
    indough
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,857 ✭✭✭indough


    by that stage there will be at least one other format above current hd


  • #35
    Voodu Child
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭Voodu Child


    Biggins wrote: »
    The scan being done at 2k but by the time it got to dvd it was reduced to around 420p resolution?
    They'd have scanned at whatever resolution their scanners were at the time. in the early days of dvd that'd have been under 2k.

    Pal dvd is 576p

    Point is that those old scans aren't really good enough for a bluray; they weren't supposed to be. But some companied cheaped out and used them anyway.


  • #36
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Voodu Child wrote: »
    ...Point is that those old scans aren't really good enough for a bluray; they weren't supposed to be. But some companied cheaped out and used them anyway.

    Explains a lot. Quick bucks and jumping on the HD bandwagon.


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  • #37
    indough
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,857 ✭✭✭indough


    i think its quite expensive to rescan at the best resolution. also sometimes they dont have an original copy of the film anymore in satisfactory condition


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