Why do special effects look worse on DVD?

Kill 120hz mode/motion enhancement, kill it with fire!

I game at a sub shop with a nice flat screen always playing some sci-fi show. Battlestar Galactica looks like ASS in this mode! I so want to turn it off but feel bad for the owner, maybe he likes it?

I work one and a half days a week at a locally owned video game and movie shop. I put in PotC At World's End thinking it was a blu-ray because it was in the blu-ray holder. It turned out to be a dvd and it looked like garbage. I didn't even make it 5 minutes in.

I'm not sure I'm convinced that's a framerate or interpolation issue. That's probably part of it, but I don't think that's the root cause. I believe a bigger part of it is like Black Barney says: Your viewing setup is too good. You're starting to see more than you're supposed to. All my old movies look just fine; they look just like they always have. CGI effects just don't age well.

Did they ever release an unmodified Star Wars Original Trilogy on DVD? I bet it looks fine. Star Trek looks fine. Even the claymation-looking skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts look fine. Hell, even Spaceballs looks good. Lawnmower Man looks fucking awful. Every time I watch LotR Trilogy I notice the CGI more. Even Inception on Blu-Ray doesn't look quite as believable as it looked in theatres, because on a crisp home theater setup it's too crisp.

They need to release a digitally remastered version of the moon landing and then play it on the OP's TV and then we'll know FOR SURE if it's in a movie studio or if it's real. (if it's real, it will still look like garbage)

wadenels wrote: I'm not sure I'm convinced that's a framerate or interpolation issue. That's probably part of it, but I don't think that's the root cause. I believe a bigger part of it is like Black Barney says: Your viewing setup is too good. You're starting to see more than you're supposed to. All my old movies look just fine; they look just like they always have. CGI effects just don't age well.

Did they ever release an unmodified Star Wars Original Trilogy on DVD? I bet it looks fine. Star Trek looks fine. Even the claymation-looking skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts look fine. Hell, even Spaceballs looks good. Lawnmower Man looks fucking awful. Every time I watch LotR Trilogy I notice the CGI more. Even Inception on Blu-Ray doesn't look quite as believable as it looked in theatres, because on a crisp home theater setup it's too crisp.

www.studiodaily.com/2012/04/the-hobbit-t...er-future-of-movies/

wadenels wrote: Did they ever release an unmodified Star Wars Original Trilogy on DVD?

Nope. They released a non-anamorphic laserdisc transfer to troll fans. But you can get fanmade versions that remove most of the changes:

originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Harm...eleased/topic/12713/


But yeah, CGI just looks bad and the more you see it, the worse it looks. It's not a real object so it will never reflect light, or move in a convincing, non-forced way. I gave away my LOTR set away because I couldn't enjoy it anymore, it's just too obvious.


I don't get the recent obsession over higher framerates. It's not like Casablanca looks bad.

QPCloudy wrote: I put in PotC At World's End . . . and it looked like garbage.

That had nothing to do with the quality of the picture bud.

I don't get the recent obsession over higher framerates.

It's another way to "improve" films so that people will spend money on them. The industry has made a lot of money off of improving the look and sound, and they don't want that show to end.

S.