Originally posted by Jedireaper
Indeed. A worthy HD film, filmed in non HD, Dirty Harry in Blu-ray is amazing and its older than Star Wars... go figure...
Errr...non-HD???? Mind you, the resolution of HD is high, but the resolution of film is infinite... It's the digital scan that makes it HD or not.
Originally posted by queeq
It is infinite since it's analog. It's the size of the negative and the quality of the scanner that will determine it's crispiest outcome.
Interesting. If this is true than why are some people quick to get rid of anything analogue?
Seems everything these days are doing from that to digital.
A few weeks ago, I watched Warren Beatty's REDS for the first time. Very good film, but what astounded me was the picture quality for a regular DVD. The film came out in 1981 & did win Best Cinematography, but the restoration work was so amazing, the film looked like it had just been released. On my HDTV with an upgrading player, it looked as good as any Blu-ray disc could be. That's just putting the necessary work into restoring something.
Originally posted by SnakeEyes
Eh, not all that impressed. The face-detail of the characters improves, but everything looks really washed out and like roughrider said, less cinematic. I don't want my Star Wars looking like the CNN anchors do on my HDTV.
Have any of you actually see Star Wars in HD for yourself?
Make sure it is good media on a good display, you can't possibly be put down by it.
Originally posted by sweersa
Cool, I would love to see this. Unfortunately it seems some theatres around here have bad film equipment though. Things always looked washed out..blurry, or off center.
Originally posted by roughrider
This is something I've noticed since the new wave of movie theatres got built in the mid 1990's onward. With all the stadium seating & nice leg room, the picture on the bigger screens looks a little grainier; even blurry in the corners sometimes. This is the 35mm film frame being blown up even more. Go to an older, smaller theatre, and the frame on screen looks a bit sharper(if the projector is using enough light.)
I see, that is interesting. Yeah, at the theatre I was referring too it is grainy...blurry, washed out and even the edges have the bad blur like you said.
We have another theatre, a bit farther to travel to get to, but it is totally digital, I do not know much about it technically just that they use digital projectors, and everything looks crisp and sharp, I just wish it were closer than the crappy old theatre.