A wonderfull term exists in our world, 'Digitally Remastered'. When we think of digitally remastered, we imagine a warehouse fill of nerds and artists behind computers, going threw a movie or TV series frame by frame, making it appear absolutly perfect, crips and clean.
We think wrong.
'Digitally Remastered' has absolutly nothing to do with image enhancment, it's about the master copy. Mastering is when we make a master copy to make additional copies of, most anime comes to the US on analog VTR master tapes (While much has gone digital these past years), or even film reels, these are the masters, analog. You transfer this master to a digital medium, and use that digital medium as the master, you have now digitally remastered it. It's easier to work with, but it does nothing to improve the actual quality, other then prevent the master from deteriorating from use, and to make copying and conversion much easier.
Essentially, I can take a 20 year old Beta casette, that has been chewed on by my grandma's cat and stored in the basement, buy a Beta player from a garage sale that that been so abused it sparks when you plug it in, and connect that to a digital capture device using a 50 foot coax RCA composit video came that I made by using splicing an length of TV cable, attaching new ends with tinfoil and electrical tape (I actually made a wire like that. ^.^), and make a 100GB digitized master copy that looks like it was crapped out of a monkeys behind. I ten use this digital master to sell VideoCDs of this 20 year old video of my grandmothers vintage, slightly furry, porn... And it indeed meets all the requirements to be digitally remastered.
I feel better now.
?
