Yeah, remastered old/older movies look really good in HD. If not remastered, you can really see the graininess.phuqueue wrote: This is only half true. Old movies can definitely do HD. Film is an analog format, so you can't really directly compare it to digital HD, but the level of detail captured (and thus the theoretically possible resolution of the digital image) by 35mm film stock far surpasses digital 1080p. Old TV shows that were shot on video are doomed to an eternity of blurry, grainy SD hell, but anything that was shot on film can absolutely be remastered in true HD.
One problem with SDV is that they will use lower bit rates for content that doesn't have high motion, which will mean blockiness for pan scans or a quick motion here and there. But new cable boxes are coming out with MPEG4, which should improve that. Could be a while before TWC goes MPEG4 though.
TWC currently has the SA 8300HD/C DVR boxes. SA came out with an 8500 series with MPEG4. Hopefully TWC will at least carry the box soon, before MPEG4 transcoding begins, as I hear there are mo betta Tivo like features too.
