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I'm asking/wondering if, for older movies (let us use Blazing Saddles and an even older movie: Universal Studios Classic Frankenstein for examples), would 1080p really make a difference compared to 720p? I'm saying, if I ripped these movies in true 1080p (not any of that 1920*900 crap), but 1920*1080 at variable bit rate, would there really be a worth difference form a true 720p rip of the same movies? Would quality make it worth the double file size from 720p to 1080p on lets say a 55" tv?
I'm just wondering others thoughts on this, save a few GB because one wouldn't even notice a difference in video quality?
Hope this makes sense, I tend to ramble.
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I don't know much about encoding, but if the movie is ripped from a Blu-Ray, and not a DVD, it can make a difference.
Some old movies are modernised by remastering.
Does that fit an answer you were looking for?
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if the source is 1080p and the encode is 1080p there's no pixel resampling,
if the source is 1080p and the encode is 720p there's pixel resampling,
if the source is 720p and the encode is 720p there's no pixel resampling,
if the encode is 720p and the encode is 1080p there's pixel resampling.
no pixel resampling is better than pixel resampling as far as quality is concerned.
but there's something else, which is the film-to-digital transfer.
was the quality of the film enough to justify the 1080p/720p of your source in the first place?
i can't answer that without visual inspection.
does the source look upscaled? can you tell individual pixel luma values? zoom in if necessary.
regarding the tv set, the resolution matters more than the size of the screen.
a 768p screen will do fine with a 720p encode and won't really benefit from a 1080p encode.
a 1080p screen will benefit from a 1080p encode, unless the source is upscaled rather than true 1080p.
