jesuslovesgood wrote:
The music video after the movie and deleted scenes is in pretty high def looking quality for a laserdisc. Makes me shocked that laserdisc was capable of some great video quality but it doesn't seem like they ever truly took advantage of that as much when the actual movie is playing.
The explanation is in your question.
Video sources had minimal post-processing required to be transferred to LD (basically the same signals) and looked very clean.
Some very old 80's live concerts do look very good because it was a straight-to-LD process.
Movies (shot on films) needed a conversion from film to video, this was not a trivial task as the frame rate was different, color scales to rebalance, etc. and you can clearly see the technology improving from 80's to end of 90's movie transfers. These were all the "remastered" releases, that sometimes added so much DNR that it looked actually worse!
Julien