Best looking movie when upscaled

I can honestly say that The Nightmare Before Christmas is easily the best looking upscaled movie I have ever seen. I have the HD DVD version of The Corpse Bride and the SD DVD version of The Nightmare Before Christmas. When played in the HD-A35 player in the living room on my HD-DILA 56" 1080p screen, The SD DVD version of The Nightmare Before Christmas looks ALMOST as good as the HD DVD version of The Corpse Bride. I have a theory about animated type movies such as Schreck and claymation movies such as The Corpse Bride and how they look better than traditional non-animated type movies when upscaled by an HD or Blu player. Is anyone else of this opinion?

Yeah, it's true. And I have a theory too. Edges are processed by upconversion quite nicely, and animation is just full of edges, and simple gradients. Textures are repetitive for the most part, and if textures contain elements too small for 480 they aren't missed - well certainly it doesn't affect PQ anyway. It's easier to compress this kind of information, and it's easier to upscale once decoded.

But real life films are so much different. They contain RANDOM little pits and speckles and things like split ends of hair on people's heads that vastly increases the complexity of each frame. Quantitatively, theres many times the information there.

Live action: "Star Wars: A New Hope." Second best: "Star Wars: A New Hype."

John

The original Star Wars trilogy looks AWESOME upscaled!!! Hellboy looked pretty good too.

-JS

I used to think "I Robot" looked great upscaled until I bought the Blu-ray. Then I was blown away.

Anyone wanna buy my I Robot standard DVD that looks great upscaled?

Pretty much all of the Pixar movies look good upscaled but also Night at the Museum, Revenge of the Sith (as well as the original Star Wars trilogy), Ray, Scarface (two disc anniversary edition), THX 1138 and Bridge to Terabithia.

Any CGI-generated video clips will look fine upscaled. Reason: Natural skin tone reference need not apply. Pixar movies, including any other cgi movies, like SHREK or ICE AGE... looks very nice upscaled.

Another eye-candy movie that looks nice upscaled: ULTRAVIOLET... because the whole movie is layered with gelatin-saturated colors t. Think of every frame of the movie PHOTOSHOPED. Color distortion & jaggies at minimal.

[Post edited by xplaytendo on Apr 15, 2008]

ALL.

American Gangster SD upscaled looked better than it HD counterpart!!!

The Indiana Jones movies, Deja Vu, and Ultraviolet looked sweet upscaled on mine. You wouldn't know they were SD DVD unless you really tried to discern.