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Aug 13, 2013 - 2:28 PM
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Mr Greg
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Firstly, it depends on the quality available to make the DVD from. For example, on my recent tripto the USA I bought a box set of 50 movies - 3 or 4 on each Dual-layered DVD...but the quality (Public domain movies/TV shows mostly from the 60's and 70's, with a couple of 80's entries) probably wasn't that much to shout about to beging with. That said, they are perfectly watchable.
Also - I know of few cases where a dual-layered DVD is completely full....most - with extras included - still leave a good Gb or so's worth of free space...even on so-called "Superbit" releases there was still room to spare. So it does not nec essarily follow that two 90-minute movies on one disc leads to poor quality...it might just be using up the space on the disc. I do, for example, have another set of 12 movies on 4 discs where the quality is surpringly good...with full DD sound for some of them...look great, even on a 42" LCD TV...and was VERY pleased (again, on my USA trip) to find "Impostor" released in this format (it's a toughy to get hold of)...looks and sounds top notch.
...but, then, I guess there are the cases where they are squeezed on and quality sacrificed for the sake of a quick and cheap sell...though I have not experienced any such release as yet, personally.
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Thanks for the feedback. That is what I suspected. It's frustrating that there are no "standards".
I think you are wrong. Both DVD and Blu-Ray have very specifically defined standards.
But both are at the mercy of the quality of the source material, and how they are compressed.
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Then what are the BluRay standards? If you can just upscale a film onto BluRay then BluRay is just another carrier device. Films are either too grainy or to much DNR is applied. Many films are not cleaned up at all. Specs and dust flutter on the screen like it's snowing.
Edit: Let me clarify, there are many excellent BluRays out there. I'm not dissing the whole medium.
If you are talking about quality standards of the material to be transferred, then there are no standards, like there never were for DVD, VHS, Laserdisc, etc.
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Blu-Ray has the potential to look better then DVD. It's specs are clearly far superior. But at all depends on the source material, and how it's handled.
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Aug 13, 2013 - 5:13 PM
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mastadge
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I know it comes down to the source material and how it's prepped. But I don't recall films earlier on VHS looking worse on DVD.
BluRay by it's nature requires special attention because it can greatly magnify what is subtle in standard definition. People say film has grain, yes that is true, but in many cases the grain is magnified in the process. More so than the film itself or its theatrical presentation.
Sorry for opening up a can of worms. I really derailed my own thread! 
Well some films did look as bad or worse on DVD -- because they were sourced from VHS or for other reasons.
And I think, for the most part, the manufacturers have learned what's okay with their releases. You still hear about the occasional snafu, the occasional catalog release that's obviously sourced from an older transfer, but you hear less often now than a couple years ago about films DNRed to death, and you hear much more often -- both with catalog releases from Sony, Disney, etc and from prestige distributors like Criterion, Twilight Time and so forth -- about the time and care put into 4K scans and painstaking remastering processes. I almost always take the time to scan the review sites and forums -- Blu-ray.com, the digitalbits, etc -- in order to screen out and horrible BDs, but for the most part I think they've gotten pretty good at realizing that the kind of consumers who have upgraded to BD are the kinds of consumers who really care about top-notch presentation.
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