Better Quality

[mpnx2]

I have downloaded several MPEG's off the net and was wondering if there was a way to get better quality by converting it somehow.....

[Mirror_Image]

Do you mean is there any way to make it look better than it does?

Not really. You can painstakingly improve it, but only slightly, and that would probably be one frame at a time.

If there were such an easy, inexpensive solution, there would be some new billionaires out there, stuffed with cash that came from licensing AOL-Time-Warner, et al. to sharpen up all of those blurry, grainy old films in their vaults.. Many still have large revenue potential - imagine another theater and DVD release of Casablanca, Gone With the Wind, Wizard of Oz, ad nauseaum, that looked as sharp as a sparkling new print did more than half a century ago.

As it has often been said, you can't polish a turd. With those old films, there isn't much you can do, but if you want a sharp copy of a newer film, there's always retail DVD.