Originally posted by: vince_the_destroyer
one quick question. If these are sourced from laserdiscs, and were made anamorphic simply by deleting the black bars on the bottom, how can they look any better than the original LD's?
one quick question. If these are sourced from laserdiscs, and were made anamorphic simply by deleting the black bars on the bottom, how can they look any better than the original LD's?
They won't. However, they will look better when you play them on a 16:9 TV because you won't have grey bars on the left and right hand sides of the image. Contrary to some statements, it doesn't look as good when you take a non 16:9 image and use the zoom feature on a 16:9 TV to blow it up. If you look at the Star Wars thread at [l]www.dvdrhelp.com[/l] , someone posted a link to a few pictures where a 4:3 image has been zoomed in on on a 16:9 TV. However, when you encode Anamorphically, the way the way I described, the image quality remains the same.
Also, deleting the black bars alone does not make something Anamorphic. That is only part of it. If you get a chance, delve into the forums at the link I gave above. There is a wealth of information there that could answer it better than I could at the moment.
Patrick