I have some DVDs of shows/movies from early 2000s and the quality is awful. I also notice it on some streaming platforms. Was it always this bad?
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So interesting thing about that.
Really old TV shows have the potential to look amazing because they were shot on film that’s as high quality as movies today. Film is roughly equal to 6–8k resolution.
But sometimes around the 70s-80s (I think, I don’t remember the exact dates) a lot of TV shows started shooting on video tape. Not sure if you are old enough to remember VHS tapes but they were basically shooting on those (but a bit higher quality) but those look like crap but it was both a lot cheaper and a lot easier to edit.
It wasn’t until early 2010s where shows largely transitioned *back* to not looking like shit.
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