Doctor M said:

I believe ADM was talking about working in HD, but I haven't heard much from him on the site lately.

The reason most of my HP edits are DVD5s are because the official DVD9 releases tend to be full of extras that can be stripped and are badly encoded to start with. All the ones I worked with could be re-encoded OPV with Q values less than 10. Yeah, the sources are that soft. It's also why they look like crap on bigger HD screens. I think it was done on purpose to push people into Blu-ray.

Will I do any HD HP edits? Maybe eventually. I'm just starting to transition to HD in general but haven't done any real editing in the format yet. A computer upgrade would be required too. So, not for a while.

I suggest building a new computer part by part if you do the research first. What I really want to do is make a BD50, if all scenes are 1080p, of the ALIEN: Extended Cut which is 130+ minutes long. It already exists as either a DVD5 or DVD9 but I'm itching to make it a BD50.

I could work on some custom Blu-rays based on ripping and Handbrake but I'm not going to go for it awhile. It'd just be the movie playing similar to an AVCHD but a BD25 or BD50. I suggest going with Optical Quantum for blanks.

It's interesting because I recently became a fan of Harry Potter last year. Only watched the movies on Blu-ray and the first two in theaters.