Originally posted by: Knightmessenger
Uncompressed (with lossless HuffyUV) captures make a difference, even if the source is only from Hi8 which has roughly the same resolution as s-vhs or laserdisc.
http://www.originaltrilogy.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=12&threadid=7640&STARTPAGE=3
And burning to dvd uncompressed (or at least far less compressed with a higher quality codec) would be possible with a blu-ray disc Maintaining the most quality is something that's very important to me. Sure, Hi8 video obviously won't use as much space as HD video but it still loses quality with lossy compression.
If the extra's on the Blade Runner dvd will be in 480p (wouldn't it be 720p since that's what regular dvd has anyways), then it might be interesting to compare the blu-ray and dvd versions to see if the less compressed blu-ray looks any clearer. Was Empire of Dreams on the '04 bonus disc 480p or 720p?
Uncompressed (with lossless HuffyUV) captures make a difference, even if the source is only from Hi8 which has roughly the same resolution as s-vhs or laserdisc.
http://www.originaltrilogy.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=12&threadid=7640&STARTPAGE=3
And burning to dvd uncompressed (or at least far less compressed with a higher quality codec) would be possible with a blu-ray disc Maintaining the most quality is something that's very important to me. Sure, Hi8 video obviously won't use as much space as HD video but it still loses quality with lossy compression.
If the extra's on the Blade Runner dvd will be in 480p (wouldn't it be 720p since that's what regular dvd has anyways), then it might be interesting to compare the blu-ray and dvd versions to see if the less compressed blu-ray looks any clearer. Was Empire of Dreams on the '04 bonus disc 480p or 720p?
Regular DVD is 480p. HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are 720p and higher, with most movies, that I've seen, being in 1080p.
Would you even be able to play the Blu-Ray disc with uncompressed video though? Sure, you'd be able to play it on a media center PC or a regular computer, but you wouldn't be able to put it in a Blu-Ray player and watch it. You'd have to at least compress the video with mpeg2 or VC-1 in order for the player to recognize it. Even if you could play it, you're still not gaining anything in resolution. All you're gaining is file size. It would also be a lot more CPU intensive to watch the video uncompressed (I've seen that first hand with my own MiniDV tapes which have an even higher resolution than Hi8).
Yes, an uncompressed capture is the way to go, but it's not really good for anything other than archiving. Once you've got it captured, storing it somewhere permanent is great if you'll ever need it again. Of course, even for those purposes, a hard drive is far better than optical media. Optical media tends to degrade over time unless it's treated properly. With a hard drive all you have to do is make sure you have at least two copies on two different disks. As long as you can keep that redundancy in place, you won't have any problems.