Shot using HD camera vs. copied from film

[Sonny]

Originally Posted by skrill

I think video transfer and audio quality on catalog releases is always entirely dependent on how much time and effort ($$$$) the studio puts into the release.

These are HD DVD examples but they come to mind:

12 Monkeys looks like crap on HD DVD (I doubt it looks much better than the original DVD). Now this may because of Terry Gilliam's artistic vision -- but think it was because the studio was just lazy.

The Thing on HD DVD (a 20+ year old movie) looks amazing. Like it was just filmed (w the exception of the now very dated special/creature effects). But it looks great. The constrast, the white of the snow, the deep blacks -- all excellent.

Blade Runner Final Cut is another that looks stupidly great!

Allot of HDDVD's catalog titles look like crap especially from *Universal
& they were all my favorite's too , ie: "Fear & Loathing" "Casino" it was a BIG let down...but what the hell...it was crappy old HDDVD, soooo.........Anyway thats why it going to take Universal along time because they have to re-encode a lot of films ( bringing um up to standard )