Why DVDs look like crap

[c.g._eads]

What's the process behind how studios/companies do DVD transfers? I have a DVD for a little movie called Bee Season that looks absolutely spectacular on my HDTV. Then I pop in a HUGE WB release, Ocean's 13, and it looks mind-blowingly awful. There are those little artifcaty things around all the movement and text. I'm in awe at how bad the transfer is.

So my question is, who decides this and why do big releases not care how their movie is presented? Is it a rent vs. buy thing? (the rental movies are a different transfer than the buy movies?) Is it them trying to recoup money cause they know it won't affect rental/buy sales? Or do they literally just not know what they're doing?

 

[Jared Meyer]

Maybe it has something to do with the number of tracks, language options, special features, etc. The more stuff they have to fit on the disk, the more compressed the movie has to be, right? Just a guess. It's a good question, I've wondered that myself.

 

[ugafan]

What's the process behind how studios/companies do DVD transfers? I have a DVD for a little movie called Bee Season that looks absolutely spectacular on my HDTV. Then I pop in a HUGE WB release, Ocean's 13, and it looks mind-blowingly awful. There are those little artifcaty things around all the movement and text. I'm in awe at how bad the transfer is.

haha. of the movies i have rented recently, ocean's 13 has looked the worst on my set also.