Can't pay, won't pay: streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy

Re:Can't pay, won't pay: streaming services are driving view... by scheeseman486 on Thursday August 14, 2025 @09:52PM (#44907789)

The DVD releases of the original theatrical versions of Star Wars were encoded in 480i non-anamorphic, drawn from analog video masters intended for Laserdisc, which employed an early version of DNR that created a bunch of ugly temporal ghosting artifacts. Blown up onto a modern display it looks really bad.

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Re:Can't pay, won't pay: streaming services are driving view... by pezezin on Thursday August 14, 2025 @10:11PM (#44907889)

I watched the PAL edition and I don't remember those artifacts, but it was a million years ago so my memory could be wrong xD

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Re:Can't pay, won't pay: streaming services are driving view... by scheeseman486 on Friday August 15, 2025 @02:31AM (#44909232)

The PAL release was an NTSC>PAL conversion, so throw upscaling artifacts onto the pile as well. e: Actually thinking back on it, it may not even have been PAL at all, but 480i/60hz Region 2/4.

There's a good chance you watched it on a CRT given that even on a flat panel LCD fom the late 2000s the low vertical resolution was quite noticeable (effectively ~272p, not counting deinterlacing artifacts from it being sourced from a video master). It looked somewhat acceptable in that context but aged very quickly once CRTs started becoming obsolete.

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Re:Can't pay, won't pay: streaming services are driving view... by pezezin on Saturday August 16, 2025 @01:30AM (#44920459)

I remembered that I borrowed the collection from my uncle and he still has it. I will ask him for pictures of the box, maybe it was the "updated" editions.

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Re:Can't pay, won't pay: streaming services are driving view... by scheeseman486 on Saturday August 16, 2025 @01:49AM (#44920558)

The re-issues used the same masters.

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