HappySqurriel on 29 September 2008
| theprof00 said: 1080p is (roughly) 2.5 megapixels, 35mm film is (roughly) 12 megapixels ... In other words, old movies have far more detail than Blu-Ray could ever dream of displaying. prove it, i watch old movies all the time. old movies=grainy and blurry |
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Low budget old movies often did not use 35mm cameras because film was (and still is) amazingly expensive, and you could save a lot of money by using a 16mm camera which would be (roughly) the same resolution of 1080p. Now there are visual artifacts that exist on film that do not exist in digital images, and they become clear well before the maximum detail of an image has been displayed, but these can easily be filtered out when the film is digitized in order to convert it to dvd/Blu-Ray ... There are many movies where this wasn't done for DVD because of how low budget the conversion process was, which could also be an explaination to your observation.
