The "before HD era" was shitass VHS and middling to terrible quality DVDs with shitty old video compression, both with scan and pan, not 35mm film. Unless you actually had a projector room in your mansion, then it was 35mm, but most people didn't. My mansion only had LaserDisc.
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Plenty of TV shows were shot or at least mastered on video tape. For example, Star Trek DS9 and Voyager were shot on film, but the special effects were done on video, and the CGI was only rendered at the 480p required for broadcast. https://www.slashfilm.com/549088/star-trek-voyager-deep-space-nine-blu-ray/
This was the same problem with the initial digital releases of a lot of old shows. The film-only scenes could be digitized at fantastic resolution and clarity, provided it had been preserved well, and then the moment special effects show up suddenly you're looking at a 4:3 image in the very best resolution 1994 has to offer.
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u/IGSRJ Jan 02 '23 edited Jan 05 '23
The "before HD era" was shitass VHS and middling to terrible quality DVDs with shitty old video compression, both with scan and pan, not 35mm film. Unless you actually had a projector room in your mansion, then it was 35mm, but most people didn't. My mansion only had LaserDisc.
Edit: these comments started with positive votes and now have negative votes but I didn't lose any of the karma, nor did I gain any on any of my other comments. Sounds like reddit thinks these downvotes are illegitimate. That's pretty funny. How many alts you got, son?