Posted by J. Clarke on 05/26/06 10:17

Jeff Rife wrote:

> ("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.

There was not even a _standard_ for high definition television when the THX
Laserdisc requirements were established. There might be "good quality"
masters somewhere but that doesn't mean that they contain 1920x1080
recordings.

> 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.

Would you be kind enough to state a source for that. What I'm seeing is
that high definition masters can be certified but there is no requirement
that they be used for SD DVD production. Since any such master would have
to be transcoded to produce an SD DVD, with resulting generation loss, I
can't imagine such a thing being mandated in any case.

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