iTunes (etc.) vs DVD for SD video?

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Originally Posted by cicada88

Yeah, it’s somewhat surprising. I checked out the Simpson’s SD seasons on Disney+, and while they finally put them up in the original 4:3 aspect ratio, they are completely smeary messes.

Granted, that’s streaming, but I can’t believe how bad it looked compared to the DVDs (which aren’t anything to write home about to begin with)

I'm not familiar with the history of that show. What do the HD versions on iTunes look like?

As was already mentioned, lot of SD-only content from the 80s and early 90s is sourced from analog video, which brings a lot of inherent problems (such as deinterlacing) with it.