Posted by Jeff Rife on 05/26/06 04:21

("Lance Corporal \"Hammer\" Schultz" <starfist.at.gmail.dot.com>) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
> It would be physically incapable of him to do so. There are many
> collectors with prints of the original versions of the movies. Those
> prints could be used by professional film restorers to create a new
> high definition digital master of the movies that look far better than
> an LD master *that was not even state of the art when it was made*.

I hate to bring this up, but the laserdiscs from which the masters were
made were THX-certified. It was a requirement for THX-certification for
laserdiscs that the original telecine be done in high-def, and then the
laserdisc master be created from a down-conversion of that telecine.

This is also true for THX-certifed DVDs, so if the DVDs released this
fall are THX-certified, then there *must* be high-def masters somewhere.

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