iTunes (etc.) vs DVD for SD video?

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Originally Posted by Fiffy

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.

I honestly don’t know about the HD Simpsons episodes, but I would assume they are pretty good because they were created in HD and not from analog videotape masters.

I only really care about the first 10 or so seasons which are all definitely from analog videotape masters, and I would guess face deinterlacing issues.

Still, I would expect Disney to be able to use the best deinterlacing algorithm combined with uncompressed digitized masters, they could easily beat out the original DVD. Instead, they did a sloppy heavy DNR job from what I saw.