you sure.
I thought movies were inherently made in so called HD quality, for the cinema after all. If they have the original masters, they should be able to make a perfect blu-ray copy, no?
Ok, I looked into it and the answer is sort of yes and no. Technically they aren't made to the specifications of what defines "high definition" because analog film and digital broadcast work differently. So the only true HD films are ones that are filmed on digital cameras.
But the resolution of film is actually higher than HD quality because it's bigger and meant to be shown on a big screen through projection and conversion to any TV set downgrades it's quality, even on an HD TV.
If the film is transfered to digital it can have an approximate HD resolution for you home viewing. The problem lies in whether this is done or not. For many DVDs they simply used the TV conversions which were low quality, so the only difference between the DVD and the VHS was that one was on a plastic disc and the other one wasn't, but the video quality was the same. So if you watch one of these DVD's on your HD TV it won't make any difference. Same goes with TV shows which are shown in inferior TV quality and it doesn't make any difference unless they are filmed in digital or converted.
The thing about a "blue"-ray is that it doesn't have any superior broadcast quality over a DVD, it can just hold more information. So like I said, it has to be converted to HD digital first before it's put on the disc to make a difference. Whether they are doing that or not, I don't know.
I have a feeling that they are just going to use the same transfers like they did for DVD because people don't know the difference and they think it will be better just because it's on "blue"ray, just like they think it will be better just because they are watching it (in low quality)) on thier HD Tv.
