Varegg wrote:
Buying all the old movies in the Blu-Ray format is a waste of money tbh ... Blu-Ray does not give you a better picture unless the movie is shot in a higher quality ... so to buy a Blu-Ray to replace a movie you have on DVD is almost always a waste of money if it is an older movie ... to buy newer movies is another case however seeing as the content of high quality made movies are compressed to fit on a DVD ...
The prices are already dropping on new releases and will continue to do so as the format sells more ... it's all about pricing if the format is successful or not ...
Not necessarily. The technology exist to upscale the resolution (legitimately, not through a BD player or receivers). You aren't going to get todays production standards but you will certainly notice a difference when it's remastered. I have reservoir dogs on Blu-ray and it looks and sound much better than the DVD version.
Actually, Via Popular Mechanic:
There’s no reason movies shot on 35-mm film can’t look great in HD; their native resolution is actually far higher than Blu-ray’s. (Remember: These movies were shot to fill huge theater screens.) And when films are scanned into digital, they are brought in at between 2000 and 8000 lines of horizontal resolution—far more than Blu-ray’s 1920 pixels across by 1080 pixels down.
Still, celluloid film negatives deteriorate over time, and some digital discs are pulled from degraded film stock. Worse, in the past, studios would make many duplicates right off the original negatives, damaging the master with each copy. When these prints are transferred to digital, no number of pixels can make them look as sharp as they should.
As of now, this is a much larger problem for DVD than for Blu-ray—most current Blu-ray releases are of popular movies from large studios with reputations for taking good care of their archives. Still, not all Blu-ray discs look good—even new releases. “You need someone with a good eye and good judgment to make the transfer,” says Glenn Kenny, senior editor at Premiere.com. An egregious example? The Blu-ray disc of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford has overly enhanced edges that give the picture an unnecessary halo effect.