High Definintion Digital Film Transfer Question..

You assume incorrectly. I just did not think that you were describing it accurately by saying they were "downsampled". There are problems with the way they did it, but assuming you would be watching on a TV/projector/monitor capable of reproducing the highest resolution, it's grossly analagous to what the result would be. One of the faults which you are pointing out is that the scaling (or "up-sampling" )is almost certainly not the same as what your TV/projector/monitor would do itself, and I agree with that, but I would stop short of calling the comparison useless. The difference in the amount of edge enhancement between the current and previous release is demonstrated pretty obviously.

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I don't really disagree all that much. All I am saying is that the method they used is not entirely unlike what you would wind up with watching all three transfers on the same sized hi-def display or projecting them on the same size screen, which is not that far from the situation that people find themselves in when actually viewing a film. Just about every digital TV I have seen does some sort of scaling between vertical lines.

Moderate edge enhancement is barely noticeable on smaller screens from reasonable viewing distances. It looks terrible when blown-up/scaled/whatever for a larger screen. The Beaver's method gives you a feel (though not a perfect representation) for how each transfer would look on the same sized screen.

And everything looks blurry if you sit too close.

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