Shot using HD camera vs. copied from film

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Originally Posted by FEP3108

For a 40 year old movie 2001 is better than most of the newer movies on BD

I think video transfer and audio quality on catalog releases is always entirely dependent on how much time and effort ($$$$) the studio puts into the release.

These are HD DVD examples but they come to mind:

12 Monkeys looks like crap on HD DVD (I doubt it looks much better than the original DVD). Now this may because of Terry Gilliam's artistic vision -- but think it was because the studio was just lazy.

The Thing on HD DVD (a 20+ year old movie) looks amazing. Like it was just filmed (w the exception of the now very dated special/creature effects). But it looks great. The constrast, the white of the snow, the deep blacks -- all excellent.

Blade Runner Final Cut is another that looks stupidly great!