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[Joe Moore]

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Originally Posted by irishtygra

they should release it on blu-ray

Unfortunately, they can't. The original film masters for Thundercats weren't used to create the DVD's. They were either missing, destroyed, too damaged, or for another reason. They used the video tape masters that were used on broadcast TV.

Film (35MM, 70MM, 17MM) can hold far more visual information than even blu-ray. Most older titles transferred to blu-ray are actually scanned at 2K or even 4K resolution and then down sampled to 1080P. Video tape has a maximum output resolution of 480i. That means the tape holds 320x240 lines of resolution that is then interlaced to give it a 640x480 resolution, aka broadcast TV quality.

So if they tried to take their current transfers and put them on blu-ray, it would be very poor quality result. Here's a quick comparison.



Click on the attachments to see the full sized versions.

As you can see, the regular Thundercats DVD screen cap is already poor quality due to the source. It sports a lot of artifacting, color banding and video tape noise. Upscaling it to HD, which is all they can do right now, only amplifies those problems.