adywan said:
MaximRecoil said:
No, not everyone had adopted 16:9 TVs in 2006 (much less well before 2006), nor even most people. You could even still buy brand new 4:3 standard definition CRT TVs in mainstream stores at the time (e.g. Wal-Mart). 16:9 DVD releases were pretty standard in 2006 because they benefited the ever-increasing number of people who had widescreen TVs, and they were 100% backward compatible with 4:3 TVs, so there was no downside to them.
4:3 TV's stopped being sold here in the UK much earlier than 2006, in fact CRT TV's weren't on sale AT ALL in 2006, only LCD and Plasma 16:9 TV's. You could find them online, just about, but in the main stores, no CRT's to be found. How do i know this, In 2005 my Dad wanted to replace his now defunked 4:3 portable TV, which had a built in VHS player. We went all around the shops and nothing. So he got a 16:9 20" LCD TV with built in DVD player instead. But even then, most people i knew who HADN'T upgraded to a LCD/ Plasma still had 16:9 CRT TV's, not 4:3
the GOUT was horrendous quality coming from a studio that had access to prints/ negatives. How difficult would it have been to make a scan off one of the prints for these bonus discs? Even without a clean up they would have looked miles better than crappy laserdisc transfers. These were actually LESS quality than the preservations fans were doing at the time. Forget the slight improvement in sharpness of the picture, the digital smearing and the terrible aliasing problems made that release an joke.
Although 4k has a lot of potential, the problem is adoption It's a slow grind compared to HD.
companies and media in general are more interested in connecting with people through their low res mobile phones.
That is a real life hinderance on progressing from HD to 4k but it will come when LED Display technology gets higher adoption and you also have to factor in signal transfer through fiber optic cable (especially if over long distance) and content creation neither of these are still not cheap forget about the 4k screen the other costs are just as expensive if not more so.
There is no rush for 4k it is simply sitting there ready for when the time comes and even if 4k masters or 8k masters are done of any film or media unless pretty much bespoke. you will only see a blu ray release currently as there is still no money in 4k at this time.