Dragon's Lair in HD!

[SirPoonga]

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/11161/Dragons-Lair-Remastered-in-High-Definition/

Digital Leisure plans to follow-up Dragon's Lair HD with the release of Space Ace HD and Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp HD over the coming months.

[ahofle]

Wow, that's kickass.  I'd hate to see the size of the video files though -- standard def is already a gig and a half.

[Lilwolf]

The audio could be cool... but its still an after enhancment similar to eagle graphics.

but where the originals stored at a higher resolution then the game itself could display?  I know laser disks are analog so color depth can't be captured exactly... But how about resolution?

I'm just wondering if its a gimic. 

Also, whats HD on a pc?  Anyone guess what the resolution might end up being?  Would be nice to see videos start to show up for daphne

[ahofle]

According to the article, the originals are film cells, so no limitation on resolution.

[SirPoonga]

"Using today's most sophisticated film transfer equipment the original Dragon's Lair film master was pulled from the vaults at Technicolor and carefully cleaned, reprinted and captured for this HD experience."

So I am sure it looks good

As for resolution my guess is 1080i if you look at the trailer's resolutions
 
Widescreen Dragon's Lair HD Trailer - (1920x1080- 16:9 @ 8/mbps)
Anamorphic Dragon's Lair HD Trailer - (1440x1080- 4:3 @ 4/mbps)
Full Screen Dragon's Lair HD Trailer - (1280x1024- 5:4 @ 2/mbps)

[RayB]

Hmm. I watched the 1280x1024 trailer. There was A LOT of artifacting ("noise"). I hope that's just due to compression of the trailer and not present in the actual game footage. Otherwise I find it looks no better than the original.

[SirPoonga]

Otherwise I find it looks no better than the original.

If it's being compressed you aren't going to notice the difference.  Put it on an HD tv set at full res you will

[XtraSmiley]

Anyone else think the widescreen is gay?  I mean, it's the normal full screen, but they just cut the top and bottom off with black bars!!!!

I hope they don't trick anyone into buying one of these expecting real widescreen which actually adds image to the sides.

Why did they do this?

[ahofle]

Yeah I don't understand that either.  Even the full frame preview had black bars for me.  I figured it was my media player codecs or something.  Though, I must say the quality (especially from the widescreen version) was pretty exceptional compared to the current rips of the video.

[RayB]

If it's being compressed you aren't going to notice the difference.  Put it on an HD tv set at full res you will

You realize when I speak of compression I don't mean squishing the image size, but I mean the digital compression they do to convert a movie to Windows Media format.... Yes?

[Silver]

I had a quick look and most of the visible "noise" are in fact compression artifacts, not noise off a film print.

Whats not clear is if the trailers are at the final compression levels.

I would suggest the quality is still higher than the original dvd release by DL.