>>6006020
i personally call it a "quality dark age". i am a fan of digital video and workflows, but this is an example of a downside. really, it's film which is unusual here, like people didn't make anime on film in the '90s (or earlier) because it had future potential, rather it was just the only option they had, so it follows that once they moved to digital, they just made it at the resolution they intended to broadcast it at, same as they did for film (film was transferred to tape before it was seen on tv, it's typically a lot of work to make an HD remaster from film as the final master is not necessarily on film itself, that ties into the term "remaster", as in to make a new master)
>I would have thought Japan of all places would be clued in to the prospect of resolutions scaling up over time.
considering the demos of HD television you can find floating around dating from the late '80s, you'd think so, but at the end of the day, anime is almost never a high budget media. it never has been.
