TK-949 said:
So 35mm is supposed to be watched on VHS only? Oh crap, I have to sell almost all of my DVDs and Blu-Rays.
No you just have to sell your VHS's( and some DVD's)---not your Blu Ray's
I have said it before and I wil say it again.
35mm release prints as seen in your average theater(at least at the time Star wars was theatrically released) are /were no better than 720p to 1K(far less than blu ray).
Notice I said release print.
The actual camera negative (which believe me---no one is interested in seeing) has the potential equivalent of 4K of information----but most of that resolution is lost as it is duplicated to form the release prints that get distributed to the cinemas.
And people tent to forget that 1080p/24 digital cameras like the genesis(that was used for Superman Returns,2012 and Alice In Wonderland) actually has a sensor that records 5K of data and downconverts it to 2K)----much like a 35mm 4K camera negative ultimately produces only a 1K positive release print through the photochemical process.
And 4K restorations on the likes of Taxi Driver and The Godfather Trilogy have produced aesthetically beautiful transfers-----but that does not bely the fact that they are incredibly grainy(as they always have been ).
A 4K restoration of the original camera negative of Star Wars(theatrical version) would yield similar results----probably far worse as Star wars contained a lot of optical composites which were already several generations removed from the original.
It's kind of funny----but that Star Wars 1982 VHS cassette/Laserdisc in someways is faithful to the original print in the sense that there was no digital manipulation in the transfer.It was just a straight forward telecine from film to video.
Sure the resolution and dynamic range of the VHS/laserdisc are not accurate----but even at this supposed low resolution---some of the flaws in the film print were exposed!
Here are screen caps taken from my own 1982 PAL VHS tape---you can see overflowing splice joins, dirt,grain and other imperfections----how do you think this would look in Blu ray?
Also to note---at the time this was telecined(1981-82)--this print was only a year old---due to the fact it was a transfer of the 1981 "A New Hope" release print(as opposed to a 1977 print-without the " a New Hope" tacked onto the opening crawl.