Posted by simon.kempster on 10/11/05 11:05

The films are created at a higher resolution for cinema projection
(1280 by 1024, according to IMDB) - they have to be downconverted for
DVD. Star Wars Episode 3 was filmed digitally at 1080p/24fps. Film
can be sampled at higher resolutions - I read that the Back To The
Future ones, for instance, were sampled at 1080 lines then
downconverted. So there shouldn't be anything stopping all
currently-released DVDs to be re-released in a hi-def format of some
sort, so us suckers - sorry, customers - can pay again for getting
exactly the same thing as we've already got. (Cynical? Moi?)

Simon Kempster

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