Douglas Monce
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I'm honestly not sure that doing a new encode in VC-1 or AVC would help the situation much. You still have film to tape transfers that are 20 years old, and will always look like 20 year old transfers. This means its going to look soft and effects shots are going to look softer, not to mention the fact that its an interlaced image. I really don't think a new encode would help much.Originally Posted by Joseph Bolus
Doug -- OK, I just took your advice and you're right! That studio-upscaled DS9 ep looked pretty bad. But what I was really talking about was doing new 480p transfers of the series via, say, the VC-1 codec. Then let the player and/or the monitor handle the upscaling. The main advantage of such a set would be far less shelf space (12 discs in one box vs. 9 boxes); the better durability of the Blu-ray format; and at least a marginally better A/V quality via the VC-1 codec.
Of course, it will probably never happen (or even be considered).
Doug