Video Quality Rating on Old Movies

[Mahatma]

You can't rate in comparisons to other movies.You have to give a rating as to how good it looks in comparison to the original material.I think Psycho looks very good,but it won't have the crispness of-lets say-avatar.There are around 40 years of technology progress lieing between them.

[boulder_bum]

Originally Posted by Mahatma

You can't rate in comparisons to other movies.You have to give a rating as to how good it looks in comparison to the original material.I think Psycho looks very good,but it won't have the crispness of-lets say-avatar.There are around 40 years of technology progress lieing between them.

See I agree with everything you're saying except about how the ratings should be measured. I think ratings shouldn't be about how good it looks compared to the original material because the original material might not look good to begin with. A 5 star video quality should have a clean picture that pops and is much better than, say, a 2 star video quality movie.

"Jason and the Argonauts" is no "Avatar" in terms of video quality, in my opinion, and the rating should reflect that.

[Beta Man]

Originally Posted by boulder_bum

See I agree with everything you're saying except about how the ratings should be measured. I think ratings shouldn't be about how good it looks compared to the original material because the original material might not look good to begin with.

Then I don't think "The Departed" should get 3.5/5 for the Film, because based on "Internal Affairs" it's a 2.0/5 at best.....

[boulder_bum]

Originally Posted by Beta Man

Then I don't think "The Departed" should get 3.5/5 for the Film, because based on "Internal Affairs" it's a 2.0/5 at best.....

I've never see "Internal Affairs" on Blu-ray, but I can buy that relative ranking if what you say is true. I remember thinking that "The Departed" wasn't exceptional in terms of PQ.