Posted by Kimba W. Lion on 04/10/07 10:51

"electrochrome" <metachromatic@gmail.com> wrote:

>But in the end, video quality just isn't anywhere near as
>important as the content. Some of the best stuff comes
>from silent films with crappy contrast, lots of splices,
>and mediocre details due to the crummy lenses they
>uses back in 1919 or 1922.

They actually knew how to take pictures way back then in the stone age.
What you're referring to sounds like n-generation dupes. Worn ones, at
that. That's one thing DVD has brought--proper presentations of some silent
films. And even the PD discs look better than the PD VHS tapes we had been
getting.

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