I just meant someone could uprez an old 1080p transfer themselves ;-) Hopefully there’s a bit more going on with these releases, extra pixels aren’t everything… but I’m one of the folks that believes it should be a new scan, not just some fancy uprezing algorithm.
My parents always warned me that sitting to close to the TV would rot my brain :-)
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 month ago
4k releases aren’t up-resolutioned 1080p. They are new transfers from the film print. That’s the entire point of 4k Blu-ray releases!
sramder@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah… not always. Especially older stuff that would need to be rescanned from film.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You are right. There’s even a website that lists them:
www.digiraw.com/…/the-real-or-fake-4K-list/
sramder@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. I went looking for… well there was another site that listed them but it seems to be shut down now, so thanks for posting that.
I also ran across and article that mentioned IMDB having a page for every movie that had details on its original shooting format e.g. 2K digital/35mm/sony handycam (looking at you Blare Witch Project)… but I think that’s gone subscription only? Not sure, maybe just gone.