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I think you will find its been downscaled to blu ray res from 35mm

No you noob laser disc was downscaled to give IMAX

 

[Raymond Lin]

Sorry for the late reply. It's a con insofar as the movie wasn't filmed in a blueray format to begin with and is only upscaled. Admittedly the technology wasn't available at the time.

You need to read up the on film and its resolution count before saying things like that.

 

[reflux]

Sorry for the late reply. It's a con insofar as the movie wasn't filmed in a blueray format to begin with and is only upscaled. Admittedly the technology wasn't available at the time.

Film is much, much higher resolution than Blu-Ray, which is one of the reasons they still use it in cinemas instead of digital playback.

 

[tom_e]

No you noob laser disc was downscaled to give IMAX

I'm far too young to know anything about laser discs

 

[OpenToSuggestions]

I had terminator 2 on bluray - This was in 2007 (16 years sinceit was released) and it wasn't even the special edition! So several scenes were missing.

Needless to say I sold it on - It came with the ps3 and in 2002 I bought the special edition dvd for under a tenner.

 

[ethan]

You need to read up the on film and its resolution count before saying things like that.

Sorry I was getting all confused by the comments made in the post illustrated beneath which seems to suggest it is a con, and others belonging to the same thread. It wouldn't hurt to read up more about it in light of the comments made below though.

Sorry to disapoint you again but if the dvd was mastered from the original film it may be in a slightly higher resolution than the format it is finalised in but works out differently. Firstly, the film has its original treatment and is then edited and remastered onto another film format where it undergoes a further finishing treatment so that lighting and scene lighting matches. Each setup has its saturation and colourisation, contrast and brightness optimisation. If there is wildlife aroound the greens and yellows will be more vivid. Then every director has his or her personalisation treatment which locks the film. Every layer acts like a sugar coating but like all sugar after a while it breaks down. The films you are seeing transferred to Blu-Ray now are no longer transferred from film, they are merely transported using a linear method like Betamax. Some are even stored on laserdisc. But you will rarely see any film being used to master a Blu-Ray or HD DVD.
Believe me if you know anything about cinematics then you should know that it has to do with the film treatment to trick our eyes to believe there is more to the picture than there is. After all what is interpolation if it is nothing but a trick on the eye, the same goes for HD. turn a 720P picture into a higher resolution by scaling it to 1080i. The trick is in line and pixel doubling. The problem with 1080i is that it flickers. In high action it leaves trails behind it like ghosts.
I am not saying you are not getting a better definition, but you are not getting as high a definition as you are being told. Sky+HD is a con in itself by definition. The highest definition you can get out of it is 1080i. Then the program you are watching is filmed in SD but upscaled on the HD channel stream. Some are filmed in higher definition but they are few and far between. So we come back to the question- are you watching a high definition movie or TV because you believe it is in HD or is it that you want to believe the trick so much that you are willing to lie to yourself.

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