How do movie studios take old catalogue releases like say "The Godfather" and convert them to a Blu Ray? I guess the same theory applies to movies that were shot during the time of VHS and than converted to DVD, so please help me understand how the DVD - Blu Ray conversion is done.
Is this something only a movie studio can do or can the average consumer handle the conversion?
Originally posted by thedon01: How do movie studios take old catalogue releases like say "The Godfather" and convert them to a Blu Ray? I guess the same theory applies to movies that were shot during the time of VHS and than converted to DVD, so please help me understand how the DVD - Blu Ray conversion is done.
Is this something only a movie studio can do or can the average consumer handle the conversion?
Thanks
When Blu ray/Dvd are made, they take the original 35mm film that the movie was recorded on, and re-encode it to the proper format that they need using special players that hook up to companies computers(they are worth thousands).
35mm film can resolve about 4K of horizontal resolution, in most cases. Even movies made decades long ago can have astonishing transfers to today's standards of HD. Blu-ray, with its 1080 x 1920 standard resolution, offers just under 2K horizontal resolution. Quality of the stock 35mm film, camera equipment, and camera operators have a lot to do with how well the imagery comes out, but make no mistake, 35mm movie film is quite "HD-ready."
