Originally posted by: iRantanplan
[T]he 1080p "resolution" of 16mm film is only valid [for] high quality prints.

Another claim I'd dispute. If you want as good quality SD as you can get from a 16mm print, then you pretty much have to start at a higher resolution. There is quite a lot of stuff to worry about at the edges of the frame/gate, and if you want to be able to maintain as much quality during resizing (16mm Scope prints do exist), cropping, cleaning, colour correcting, sharpening and editing (of reels together, for example), then you'd want to keep as much resolution as possible. The absolute final step (if I was doing it) would be to drop to PAL or NTSC SD resolution from at least a 720p work print.