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In Reply to: RE: Laserdisc and picture quality posted by billiam@q.com on December 09, 2011 at 19:03:11
Laserdisc looked spectacular when the reference was VHS tape. The gap was huge. That advantage disappeared with DVD. I've never experienced a well mastered LD to be superior to a well mastered DVD of the same title. I do agree that two channel sound quality was superior with LD.
-Wendell
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However, for the first few years of DVD, the source used for the digital conversion of nearly all movies was the same as that used for the DVD release. Depending on the age of the film and how well it was maintained/stored, the LD could hold its own to these early DVDs. The reason for this was that the movie studios did not switch to anamorphic widescreen until a few years down the road (so the resolution was the same as LD), DVD authoring was in its infancy and digital artifacts stood out -- mostly due to MPEG compression, edge enhancement, mosquito noise and blocking, as well as poor deinterlacing capability in players.
I wish I could remember the source of the info, but a few DVD releases were actually made from the composite output of a LD player. This was probably due to either poor film storage, the studio having budget issues or just plain incompetence.
On the other end of the spectrum, the Japanese actually had a High Definition version of the laserdisc (MUSE Hi-Vision) based on their analog HD broadcast format.
When comparing a "well mastered" LD to a "well mastered" DVD ... with the key word being "well mastered". However many DVD(s) are not "well mastered" ... it's not always a given.
For example: my LD copy of Criterion Collection Paths of Glory #57 (1957) was far superior to my DVD copy of this title ... in regards to PQ.
In this particular case, I'm assuming the source material that Criterion used for the LD was better than the standard DVD issue.
If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
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