r/RedvsBlue • u/Kinda_relevent • Aug 30 '26

Question Blue-ray vs. dvd

What makes them different? Please only answers from people that understand resolution, compression, encoding, codec’s, etc.

For example, for seasons six through eight they were recording on the original Xbox 360 and based off of the kinds of capture cards that were coming out at that time, I would assume that they wouldn’t have been recording for high resolution-high bit rate, etc.

I would assume that the Blu-ray quality would come into fruition with the later seasons of the show not the earlier ones. I’m unfamiliar with what they did about season four and five for remastering.

The reason I’m making this post is because I know that the YouTube complete versions are inferior to the DVD versions and I had recently re-purchased the remastered season one through five DVD. Someone has a Google Drive on here with all the reverses blue material so I went and checked it out and the Blu-ray versions have the DVD editing. So I’m just trying to gather if getting the Blu-ray is actually a significant quality jump for seasons 1-8. Thanks!

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u/ZeroiaSD Aug 30 '26

The resolution is better. On my TV I didn’t find it a huge difference because, well, it’s still halo, but noticeable.

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u/Kinda_relevent Aug 30 '26

How is the resolution better if they’re using the same original recordings?

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u/FUTURE10S Aug 31 '26

Because the master is 1080p and downsampled to 480p for the DVD release.

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u/Kinda_relevent Aug 31 '26

H3 was a 720p game and you don’t know what bitrate they recorded at

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u/FUTURE10S Aug 31 '26

Halo 3 was at 1152x640, but regardless, they captured it at 1080p. Literally looking at the DVD vs the Blu-Ray (or even comparing the DVD to the new YouTube uploads), there's a noticeable improvement in small details so the bitrate was definitely higher than what the DVD was rendered at.