Why do special effects look worse on DVD?

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.