Anamorphic Buena Vista DVDs?

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03-05-08 | 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Drexl

As for BD bringing new transfers, I'm not sure it will speed things up. Disney hasn't been releasing many catalog titles at all on BD. There was a period last year where they went more than 5 months without releasing any catalog titles.

Part of the reason is that Disney had a lousy track record for DVD quality over the years. They layed thick edge enhancement on almost all of their live-action movies (and many of the animated ones as well). Those existing HD masters are unusable on Blu-ray, so the studio has to remaster every catalog title they issue.

As opposed to Universal, who have been happy to dump any old dated DVD master onto HD DVD without remastering.

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03-05-08 | 12:23 PM

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^Me neither. Also, they have mostly focused on mainstream movies that were moderate to big hits, so I certainly wouldn't expect Exotica or Nightwatch any time soon.

I wasn't holding my breath. All I was saying is that I'm sick of how they release things, and I'm sick at myself for importing PAL discs just to get anamorphic transfers, which is why I stopped. I realize I'll probably get senior discounts before I see movies like those on BD.