Why do people get excited when old movies are brought to Blu-ray?

[Rblu-Dblu]

Most of these older films are films that we love. They may only get a rating of 3 when compared to other blurays but they are usually leaps and bounds better than the dvd. Especially films that are over 10 years old, they usually look horrible on dvd on our plasmas and lcds.

[mywhitenoise]

A lot of my movies were made before 1999, and a lot of them look just as good, or better, than most recent movies.

[Beta Man]

I didn't want to deny myself the joy of seeing 2001, The Shining, The Searchers, Casablanca, or any of the other numerous "old" films I own in in breath-taking HD video and audio quality simply because they didn't fall into some arbitrary "age-group"

Are you not one of the masses waiting eagerly for the Original Star-Wars films to be released on Blu-ray?

[Pondosinatra]

Originally Posted by Beta Man

Are you not one of the masses waiting eagerly for the Original Star-Wars films to be released on Blu-ray?

Just Empire

[Post Prod]

No offense to the OP but it's posts like these that hurt my brain.

If you have a small display - any improvements on blu-ray will appear marginal. but despite your skewed perception it's actually the older titles that benefit the most from being put on blu-ray. you of course have to take each release on it's own, as some transfers are better than others. it's also highly dependent on how shoddy the proceeding SD DVD transfer was. But the biggest jumps in improvement when compared to their DVD counterparts have been, by my eyes, most great with older titles.

Newer DVD's are encoded much better and the differences are much less jaw dropping. It sounds like you are taking more of an issue with how older films look compared to newer films, not how they look on blu-ray vs DVD.

Be it Buster Keaton's The General or Forrest Gump, the upgrades I get most excited about are almost always older releases. If you are looking for movies to show off your fancy new tv, then yes older films might not wow some people that are looking for a more video game/animated movie look. But for film lovers who are keenly aware of the short comings of previous releases, it's the blu-ray versions of old favorites that leave the jaws dropping.

[Beta Man]

Originally Posted by Post Prod

But the biggest jumps in improvement when compared to their DVD counterparts have been, by my eyes, most great with older titles.
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I agree...... I get more "wow" factor from the huge improvement of the catalogue titles I have that look terrible on a big screen, than I do from pixar etc. that look fantastic on Blu-ray, but they didn't look terrible on DVD to begin with.

[DrasticPlastic]

Originally Posted by Rblu-Dblu

Most of these older films are films that we love. They may only get a rating of 3 when compared to other blurays but they are usually leaps and bounds better than the dvd. Especially films that are over 10 years old, they usually look horrible on dvd on our plasmas and lcds.

I just watched Saw, as you know... the blu doesn't really look much better than the DVD, not to mention the blu doesn't even have a lossless track... Oh well, at least it was on sale we bought it. Maybe your copy looks better on your tv than it does on mine though...

The Wizard of Oz though, that looks much better on blu. People also get excited because they want to be on the blu ray bandwagon, and brag about how many blus they have. I get excited because I have a high end audio system and I love to show off how good it sounds, which is easier to do when the blu has a lossless audio track. Plus some people never bought the older moives on DVD, so when it comes out on blu ray they are happy to get it since it's one of their favorites, and it can be had in better quality than could previously be had.