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I don't know a whole lot about film restoration, but is it even possible if the equipment they used to film it in was even originally 16:9? to begin with? i know when i watch clips of old sports games on tv on hd channels they are still in 4:3 format just a little less grain to be had... they just fill in the bars with colors or the actual video they are showing just enlarged with effects...
but yeah i think that's poor right there... i remember when the predator came out on blu-ray and it was a rip off straight up dvd rip with crappy audio.. this was like in 2006 and only like 2 years ago did they finally come out with a proper bluray of the predator.
To make it 16:9 they'd have to crop the picture and enlarge it, which would suck. I hate that. I have no problem with watching in 4:3 as long as I'm getting the full picture. If things are recorded on film they can quite often get a higher resolution out of it though, which is how you get HD versions of classic films. Something to do with being filmed for cinema, I guess.
But yeah, they are a con now since the network is coming. Everything will be accessible on there, so there's no need for DVDs anymore. Well, we'll still need them for the next year or so, but they're on the way out.
Do you have any recent Blu-Rays, Ross? WWE didn't record in HD until late last decade so any upscaling would've ruined the content. But if you have a Blu-Ray from 2010 for example and the content which was in HD, isn't in HD then you could ask for your money back legally. Not from Silvervision but maybe from WWE themselves seeing as it's their product.
They weren't WWE PPV releases, it was sets like Best of Clash of the Champions & Falls Count Anywhere. I didn't expect the quality to be full on 1080p but I expected an improvement over the DVD releases. What was originally filmed in HD quality seems to be a mute point because of how extensive their video library has become and what producers and cameramen from different territories used is going to take years to work out. When they switched from VHS to DVD the quality improved, so I would have thought they had the capabilities to upgrade to HD next. I know the tapes use to be really expensive so territories like WCCW (Von Erich's in Texas) use to film the show, can it and then wipe the tapes, for next weeks show. The amount of classic footage they lost is monumental.
From what I've read if its digital or filmed on 35mm you can restore it to blu-ray hence why films from the 50's & 60's are getting HD releases. I've seen Once Upon A Time In The West on blu-ray and its looks a phenomenal transfer. Rear Window was another one with a great restore.
I got a bunch of cheap WWE Blu-Rays when Silvervision lost their contract with WWE. I think they're a bit of a con to be frank. I always thought the blu-ray was there so you could fit more on the disc, hence a better picture quality with the bigger files. WWE don't bother to remaster any of the old footage and even worse, everything is still in 4:3 aspect ratio. I even got the Brock Lesnar, Here Comes the Pain, new edition. Those matches are from 2002-2004 and even those haven't been upgraded to the proper 16:9 ratio. It says at the top of the case, presented in HD, absolute load of bollocks. For the older footage, the quality is exactly the same as the DVD it just comes on a extra disc and you don't get the blu-ray extras. And if they were any good, they would be on the main discs.