Old films now on Blu Ray

[E31Shrew]

Help!....I can't for the life of me work out how old films, including such classics as The Life of Brian, are now available on Blu Ray. What processes are involved to convert from SD to HD 1080p? Can all old films be converted?

[dtmpower]

They can scan the film at high resolution and encode it....

[thehawk]

Old films were never recorded in SD. Have a think about it

[V6]

The process is:

- Check to see whether there are gullible people who will pay £20 for old films
- Check to see whether they can make it look slightly better
- Sell Sell Sell

[E31Shrew]

thehawk said:

Old films were never recorded in SD. Have a think about it

Good thinking...but you know what I mean!

[illmonkey]

Film is a much higher res that HD. So they just rescan the film at 1080p.

[rich1231]

E31Shrew said:

thehawk said:

Old films were never recorded in SD. Have a think about it

Good thinking...but you know what I mean!

No we dont.

As that would mean we had empathy and understanding with an idiot.

[E31Shrew]

V6 said:

The process is:

- Check to see whether there are gullible people who will pay £20 for old films
- Check to see whether they can make it look slightly better
- Sell Sell Sell

Handy for me in the store though, as we play standard DVDs next to Blu Ray to show difference. Also tough trying to find films we can show that are 12 certificate and less.

[thehawk]

1080p is 1920x1080 pixels.

I think 35mm film is generally considered the equivalent of at least 3840x2160 pixels.

Essentially a current full-HD set is only showing 25% of the detail that film shows. I'm sure we'll all be conned by next gen HD in a few years time.

[E31Shrew]

thehawk said:

1080p is 1920x1080 pixels.

I think 35mm film is generally considered the equivalent of at least 3840x2160 pixels.

Essentially a current full-HD set is only showing 25% of the detail that film shows. I'm sure we'll all be conned by next gen HD in a few years time.

Thanks for that..

[tamore]

thehawk said:

1080p is 1920x1080 pixels.

I think 35mm film is generally considered the equivalent of at least 3840x2160 pixels.

Essentially a current full-HD set is only showing 25% of the detail that film shows. I'm sure we'll all be conned by next gen HD in a few years time.

is it just the trend to be cynical about everything these days?

the improvement in picture and sound quality avalaiable in the home is phenominal compared to 5 years ago. so i'm glad i've been 'conned'.

the fact is, to encode all the information from a reel of film onto a dvd type format isn't technically possible yet, but it will come.

[derestrictor]

As The Hawk indicates, 35mm is far beyond the 1080P resolution and that's before you get to 70mm.

This was explained to me by Brother Gandalf recently as I restored an old, oak table. He rang me to extoll the simple benefits of a Sky HD transmission of 'Predator.'

Not exactly The Bard but it'll do in an emergency.

[Road2Ruin]

derestrictor said:

As The Hawk indicates, 35mm is far beyond the 1080P resolution and that's before you get to 70mm.

This was explained to me by Brother Gandalf recently as I restored an old, oak table. He rang me to extoll the simple benefits of a Sky HD transmission of 'Predator.'

Not exactly The Bard but it'll do in an emergency.

I doubt Sky had to hand the original film version of predator or even a HD version of it. I bet all they did was run it through some upscaling program and said there you go, HD. Which is of course coblers as your HD tv will do that for you anyway.

[crofty1984]

illmonkey said:

Film is a much higher res that HD. So they just rescan the film at 1080p.

I did not know that.

[GregE240]

derestrictor said:

As The Hawk indicates, 35mm is far beyond the 1080P resolution and that's before you get to 70mm.

This was explained to me by Brother Gandalf recently as I restored an old, oak table. He rang me to extoll the simple benefits of a Sky HD transmission of 'Predator.'

Not exactly The Bard but it'll do in an emergency.

Awesome, and y' know what, in spite of your deep seated Murdoch-mistrust, I simply cannot fathom why you don't pay your dough and get this install post-haste, dear boy.

The very *notion* of seeing a high-def Mr Ventura turn round to the massed ranks of Predator-fodder, mouth full of 'baccy and sneering that line would be more than enough to get me on the blower....

[Neil_H]

Along similar lines, one thing I can't for the life of me understand is how Ipods can carry hundreds of hours of music when a CD is is much wider and has less music. It seems to defy the laws of physics?

[dave_s13]

'cos it's bigger, but less "dense"

Analogy would be a really intelligent dwarf vs a really stupid giant.

[MrV]

Neil_H said:

Along similar lines, one thing I can't for the life of me understand is how Ipods can carry hundreds of hours of music when a CD is is much wider and has less music. It seems to defy the laws of physics?

Its the fairies it has in it

I am another who has replaced their videos with dvd's and am now going through the expensive process of buying my favorites on Blu ray as they come out

This time round I am going to do it very slowly as it annoys me how a film can be £3 in the bargain Dvd bucket and £20-£25 on Blu ray

[Neil_H]

dave_s13 said:

'cos it's bigger, but less "dense"

Analogy would be a really intelligent dwarf vs a really stupid giant.

I hope that wasn't a serious answer to my 'question'.

[qube_TA]

When I bought my PS3 it came with 2001-A Space Odyssey on BD, I had exactly the same thought thinking that such an old film couldn't possibly look good.

I was spectacularly wrong, it looks stunning.