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Originally Posted by Obelisk ze Tormentor
How come the images of those anime are way sharper than early 2000 anime?
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Because, as SeijiSensei alluded to earlier, the masters are for those older shows are on film. Film has more detail than was originally captured in the TV broadcast, and so can handle being "upscaled" more gracefully. For the shows that are composited/mastered digitally (in the early-mid 2000s particularly), the extra detail of the drawings/backgrounds were lost when they were brought into the computer at TV/DVD resolution. That's why the upscales there will tend to be blurry and the images interpolated, whereas the film-based anime will look more sharp.