28 Days later PQ - Please explain

[James Luckard]

Originally Posted by klauswhereareyou

Does anyone know if the transfer used for the dvd is actually a film print that that the DV transfered to, or is it straight from the DV, because to me it looks way to murky to be straight from DV? When I saw it in theaters it was a film print so it would've looked this way. Something like Jackass when it came to dvd got a transfer that appeared straight from DV. If the blu-ray of 28 Days Later is straight from the DV it'd have to look way better than the dvd, because the dvd doesn't just seem to look bad because it's DV, but that it's DV transfered to film and then slapped on a dvd.

I'm very curious about this myself. It was presumably shot in PAL at 25fps, and again presumably slowed down to 24fps for theaters. The BD has weird artifacting in any shot that moves, which looks suspiciously like the results of PAL-NTSC conversion. I'd love to know in detail how the transfer was created and if there's a way for a better one - I know, I know, there are the limitations of the source material, but I still think it could look marginally better in HD, mostly losing the artifacts, which I find distracting.