Originally posted by: ronlaw
Boris, why do you keep saying that a scan of the prints will be no better than the DVDs being mastered from the D1 laserdisc masters?
The D1 masters were scanned NON-ANAMORPHIC at laserdisc resolution only (so something like 300 lines of picture), and then stored digitally.
Because it's not the resolution alone that gives the transfer its quality. Boris, why do you keep saying that a scan of the prints will be no better than the DVDs being mastered from the D1 laserdisc masters?
The D1 masters were scanned NON-ANAMORPHIC at laserdisc resolution only (so something like 300 lines of picture), and then stored digitally.