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A while back I was watching a movie, and it was a lot better than my DVD version. I checked the internet for a bluray disc version of the movie, but there was none. I was able to tape the show, and the TV's broadcast was a lot clearer and crisper than the DVD version. (My DVD player is able to upscale to 1080p - so both versions are the same dimensions on TV with noticeable quality difference.)
Just asking because I'd like to know whether they have a higher quality footage that was never translated to BD but TV stations are allowed to use (and also because it might mean that my dream for a clearer version of some old Asian serials are realised!) FYI the movie was 'Just Like Heaven', a nice flick if you haven't seen it!
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Broadcast TV or cable have access to either the film or a digital copy of the original movie, by purchasing the rights to show it to an audience (for a price the average consumer is not willing to pay). In this day and age, broadcasters rarely use DVD quality movies for the exact reason you noticed while watching. If you cannot find a BluRay version to buy, there must not be a big enough demand for the HD version for someone to pay the rights to market it yet.
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Just Like Heaven is available on Blu Ray.
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Where? Not in the USA it isn't. Just curious. Australia is in zone 2 just like Europe so if it's available in Europe that would be good for the OP, but on a discouraging note, I checked Amazon UK and it's not available there either.Originally Posted by smrpix
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Whoops, looked too quickly and didn't notice it was "Sweet Home Alabama." Sloppy of me. Apologies. Seems to be available on Amazon and Google streaming -- don't know the non-US implications of that.Originally Posted by jman98
Where? Not in the USA it isn't. Just curious. Australia is in zone 2 just like Europe so if it's available in Europe that would be good for the OP, but on a discouraging note, I checked Amazon UK and it's not available there either.Originally Posted by smrpix
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I have a number of captures like that. Some weren't out on Blu-Ray at the time I captured them and some still aren't.
The inverse can be true as well, and I noticed that TCM-HD was a prime offender (when I still had cable, dunno about now). Even if the movie was out on Blu-Ray, they'd often run what looked very much like an upconverted DVD version of a movie. OTOH, it's harder to fault them for old movie prints in bad condition, many of which never were issued on DVD or BD.Pull! Bang! Darn! -
TCM HD is a lot better in my opinion and seem to be usually not running upconverted films, at least with what I've seen recently. But you have to be careful because every now and then they will deliberately crop an old 4:3 movie to turn it into 16:9. They don't do it much, but it does happen and they do at least say so in the opening description they run of the film before it starts where they list CC information and a few other things.
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DVD isn't high definition to begin with. Just because it's upscaled SD doesn't make it "HD".
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