Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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I don't know - maybe it's just me, but doesn't it seem a little silly to put a cartoon rendered from paper cut-outs on Blu Ray? Isn't that kind of like hooking an Atari 2600 to a 110" plasma?
What self-respecting geek would NOT want to hook up an Atari 2600 to a 110" plasma?
Agreed, but more HD content is more HD content. There really should be a vector-based playback format standard for cartoons. The audio would be the only thing that would take up any room, the whole video portion would be like 200MB, and would scale perfectly to the highest resolution whatever it may be now, and in the future. It would just be a bit processor intensive...
You know it's computer animated, right? I mean, doing the renders at 1080p instead of 480i or whatever it is for broadcast on Comedy Central... that would make a *huge* difference.
In other words, what we have now on Comedy Central is the Atari hooked up to the plasma... rendering the shows in HD would be like a XBox360 or PS3.
Same for all animation... I'd like to see the Simpsons in HD too!
South Park hasn't been animated from paper cutouts since the pilots. I assume that to go from SD to HD, requires adjusting the target res and aspect, upping the textures / photos a bit and more or less continuing to do what they do now.
Actually, I remember reading that they have all the master source files that they used to render every episode, so they can just re-render older episodes in HD.
I'm probably saying it wrong, but you get the idea.