Are they ever going to remaster all the Classic Episodes into at least 720p? It doesn’t have to be 16:9, in fact I would prefer they leave it in the 4:3 format.
I just wish they would improve the picture quality on a lot of the older episodes. TV’s have really changed over the years and on a 65inch OLED 4k TV the older episodes look really rough.
It’s been discussed, I believe the biggest limitation is having access to the masters. Joel, Ivan and others have stated they don’t have the original copies to remaster for quite a few episodes.
I’m hoping these will be the best copies we can get, as I went pretty hardcore with digital copies for my Kickstarter pledge!
I think there are also licensing issues with the riffed movies, and the episodes themselves. IIRC Joel mentioned this in a backer update once.
Myself as well, they are my only source of entertainment when I travel to foreign countries. They look Okay on my iPad Pro but when I try to AirPlay them to the TV they really show there age.
There is room for improvement. The DVDs can be cleaned up. Some transfers are worse than others, so results vary. They will never be HD though. I have experimented with upconverting, but really have not seen a huge improvement from the added resolution. Good deinterlacing and filtering can make a big difference though. The host segments are the most challenging. I will try and post some screenshot comparisons later in the week if I can find some good examples.