Disc costs: CE3K vs Blade Runner $ (reply to dialog_gvf)

[Cruyff14]

Originally Posted by dialog_gvf

There is a market for SD. But, whether at this point it is sufficient for justifying a restoration effort is debatable.

It must be because the studios are doing it. Just look at the back cover of some of your DVDs of classic movies and I'll bet you that a lot of them will say "digitally restored" and "remastered in HD" or something similar.

HD masters have been being done for a long time. But, they were done using CRT monitors that hid flaws that are apparent on discrete pixel displays. Technicolor has told Universal "sorry, not good enough" for a lot of Universal's HD masters when approached about doing Blu encodings.

That may be true for a lot of older HD masters (pre 2000) but not for recent ones. Sony for instance recently released special edition DVDs of Taxi Driver, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner and Midnight Express and all were made from new HD masters. Same story with for instance the recent special editions of MGM's The Apartment and 12 Angry Men. And there are loads more.
I don't believe for one minute that these recent HD masters are not good enough for BD.