Originally posted by: THX
Thanks for your answers, Karyudo & Laserman. I think my question was unclear, though, sorry. I can see that fanamorphic(TM) is bound to be better than TV scaling for a letterboxed Laserdisc capture. What I was concerned about was increased (compounded?) mpeg compression artifacts when coming from a (previously compressed) DVD source.
Thanks for your answers, Karyudo & Laserman. I think my question was unclear, though, sorry. I can see that fanamorphic(TM) is bound to be better than TV scaling for a letterboxed Laserdisc capture. What I was concerned about was increased (compounded?) mpeg compression artifacts when coming from a (previously compressed) DVD source.
Given that the new DVDs are going to be dual layer (they are, right?!?) and that the black bars of the letterbox do compress quite well, I don't think that the transfer will carry any notable MPEG-artifacts. If it does there are still filters to eliminate these next to sharpening the image.