Back to the Future Full HD Preview 1080P

Looks really nice.

Will be a definate buy for me I think.

Don't know whether its the quality but I never noticed the barcode on the number plate of the Delorean before.

The attention to detail in that film is staggering.
 
The "1080p" on youtube looks just like what I have on a normal DVD.

Also have a 1080p version which for HD is really excellent for 1985 material, but not out of this world good. The ordinary resolution looks good as it is however
 
Also should add that the HD on youtube can not really be considered HD as such. There isn't a high enough bitrate to even come close. It's good for youtube, but thats all. Everything has it's place :)
 
*drools*

That looks really nice. I could read the posters on the Texaco station.

Note, the default when you click the links is 720p. You need to click the red HD icon and change to 1080p.

Can't wait for the Blu-rays
 
just wait till you see the next clip its what HDTV was made for you will be able to tell the differance right away.

Will post the link when its uploaded.
 
Must admit it looks a hell of a lot better than the blu-ray release of Ghostbusters which looks absolutely woeful.
And p.s its Back to the future 2:p
 
Eh? I thought the Ghostbusters blu-ray looked pretty good. Some scenes are sharper than others, but this is one of the few movies where I actually remember noticing this in the cinema when it came out.
 
Forgive my ignorance, but is it not true that a movie has to have been originally filmed in HD to be true HD? Nice clips btw. :)
 
For lack of a better word, old films can be 'cleaned up', and brought up to almost HD quality.

I received One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest on Blu Rayform Lovefilm the other month and the restoration on it is simply stunning.

I wish I could join the HD revolution completely, but unfortunately a student's budget still only stretches to standard DVRAB :cry:

EDIT - forgot to say, those clips from BTTF are simply superb, espeically the last clip for BTTF3.
 
To me it had more grain than a farmers silo:D,after seeing other films from that era released on Blu-Ray I was expecting a lot more.
 
With a few exceptions (like 28 Days Later which was filmed using standard definition video cameras, and consumer grade ones at that, albeit with professional lenses) most movies use 35mm film which potentially has a much higher resolution than 1080p HDTV/blu-ray. In reality, things like lighting and the choice of film stock can screw this up so they can end up having an effective resolution even lower than standard definition TV. Its not at all uncommon for old films to look very good when transferred to blu-ray, although if the film has been scratched or got dirty or discoloured then a bit of restoration will be required.



I'll have to watch it again, I only remember noticing softness in some scenes, don't remember seeing grain. Some other films from that era that I have on blu-ray show quite a bit of grain. On Total Recall its a fine grain that gives a very pleasing (to me) cinematic effect. On Terminator 2, where it appears in the more darkly lit scenes toward the end, its extremely distracting.
 
not true at all, films potential resolution far exceeRAB that of hd.
restored old films can look insanely good in hd. digital theaters don't use hdtv projectors:P resolution to match film has to be much higher.

hell even old tv shows like startrek were filmed on film, and the restored hd releases look freakishly perfect. better than anyone got to see them during the original broadcast, quite insane.

even Seinfeld is being redone for bluray.
 
The majority of digital cinemas currently use 2k (2048x1080) projectors, which barely have a higher resolution than HDTV (1920x1080), just a few more pixels wide to accommodate the wider aspect ratio. There are of course other differences like much lower compression, higher bit depth, and lack of chroma sub-sampling, and I think its fair to say that 2k is only an intermediate step to 4k (4096x2160) when costs allow. 4k is probably quite close to the resolution you'd typically get from 35mm film in the cinema, although this is less than what the format is potentially capable of.
 
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