They are selling "TERMINATOR" on the blu ray dvd format. if it was not filmed in HD why buy it for blu ray?

Answer 1

All movies are "recorded" (or captured) in Film.
Film by definition is analog and far more accurate in resolution than any TV can display for now.
So, to go from film to DVD (or HD DVD), film is scanned from analog to digital frames using a special film-scanner.
So, it is possible to go from film to HD-DVD resolution.

The buying decision is all yours.

Answer 2

The above answer is correct. Here's how I'd state it. "High Definition" is just an arbitrary term used for the number of lines of resolution. Currently, High Def is generally considered to be 1080 lines of resolution, which is what a Blu Ray disc can show. For comparison, DVDs only have 480 lines of resolution. Actual movies, as in the film the movies are originally put on, has way more lines of resolution that even High definition. So the information is there, it just has to be transfered to a disc for home viewing.

Answer 3

Of course a newly release film would look better in HD, but an older movie like Terminator would still look slightly better in HD format since dvd's are very compressed and on a big screen the compression artifacts (blocky pixels for example) are easily noticeable, while the same movie in HD format is much less compressed and will look somewhat better than the dvd format.

Answer 4

so you can waste your money I guess although they could have reformatted it so Its in better quality I doubt 1080p quality but if you just got to have it it'll be like the scene Uzi 9 mm, phase plasma rifle in a 40watt range, Only what you see here pal.