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Posted by Joe Murphy Jr on December 10, 2011 at 14:46:42:
However, for the first few years of DVD, the source used for the digital conversion of nearly all movies was the same as that used for the DVD release. Depending on the age of the film and how well it was maintained/stored, the LD could hold its own to these early DVDs. The reason for this was that the movie studios did not switch to anamorphic widescreen until a few years down the road (so the resolution was the same as LD), DVD authoring was in its infancy and digital artifacts stood out -- mostly due to MPEG compression, edge enhancement, mosquito noise and blocking, as well as poor deinterlacing capability in players.

I wish I could remember the source of the info, but a few DVD releases were actually made from the composite output of a LD player. This was probably due to either poor film storage, the studio having budget issues or just plain incompetence.

On the other end of the spectrum, the Japanese actually had a High Definition version of the laserdisc (MUSE Hi-Vision) based on their analog HD broadcast format.