What does "digitally remastered" mean?

[Brandon Pierce]

I've heard the phrase several times on this board that this is what WB is doing with Looney Tunes. What do you mean by "digitally"?

[billyjoelfan]

Ah a post that comes up quite often at the Billy Joel Fan fourm(except it's billy Joel insted of LT&MM)

digitally means taking for the org source (film and video)and formatted and cleaned (Filtering out the BG hisses in the sound trks) this may help you out on how aAnalog to digital conversion works (http://www.howstuffworks.com/analog-digital.htm)


Enjoy!

[Paul Penna]

Originally posted by Brandon Pierce
I've heard the phrase several times on this board that this is what WB is doing with Looney Tunes. What do you mean by "digitally"?

The real world answer is that "digitally remastered" means whatever the company that uses the phrase in their advertising and product packaging wants it to mean.

What I want it to mean is that the earliest-generation elements are used for the film-to-video transfer, meaning either the film that originally photographed the images or else one the least number of steps away from it . After that, I'd want care taken to assure that the transfer replicated the original look of the film, to the extent that's possible within the inherent limitations of the medium-crossing process as well as those of the video medium itself. In other words, no goosing up the colors or contrast, no artificial smoothing of grain and texture.

Sometimes, however, use of the term is deemed justified by its employers by the mere fact that the electronic signal is made up of ones and zeros (as required by the DVD format) rather than consisting of an analog waveform. In other words, they are, in effect, lying.

[Patrick McCart]

Digitally remastered means that the video was mastered from a digital source.

It's not always great. You can take a crappy 16mm faded-to-red, splicy, damaged print of a cartoon and digitally master it.

The digital mastering is done with a datacine (day-ta-sin-ee) as opposed to an analog telecine (which is basically an analog "tube"TV camera pointed at film)

Analog mastering has a lot of artifacts and color problems. Digital mastering can be very transparent (not adding defects) for film.