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Not true. Movies were of course shot on film, which has way higher resolution than DVD. Even old TV shows look better than ever, as long as they were scanned f
by PunksATawnyFill 6y ago
Not true. Movies were of course shot on film, which has way higher resolution than DVD.
Even old TV shows look better than ever, as long as they were scanned from film. Look at the original Star Trek or Twilight Zone on Blu-Ray.
- dmos62 6y agoYou're talking about the most popular movies that were transfered to digital or even restored. Most films weren't. Plus, we lost immense amounts (most) of cinema that was produced before ~1950s when better film started being used.
- chrisseaton 6y ago> You're talking about the most popular movies that were transfered to digital or even restored. Most films weren't. How are you watching a film on DVD if it hasn't been transferred to digital?
- Lammy 6y agoDVDs have been around for over twenty years. There are plenty of things that were released on DVD but now hang in license limbo due to a publisher going out of business or whatever. There may have been a transfer done for a DVD release that would need to be re-done for HD, and that all takes time, money, usually personal interest of some sort, and of course the physical items still have to exist (2008 Universal Studios vault fire, anyone?)
- blattimwind 6y agoAs far as I know lots of TV shows were not shot on film but rather on tape, which naturally limits quality to PAL/NTSC, since that's what gets recorded on tape. Similarly the archives of broadcasters are/used to be tape.