Martin Scorsese talks about Blu-ray

Martin Scorsese, star attraction at Hollywood's latest cheerleading session for high-definition home entertainment, said the words many a studio suit can only hope prove true.

"Blu-ray is going to extend the lifetime of a movie," the filmmaker told the crowd Tuesday during Blu-Con 2.0 symposium at the Beverly Hilton.

 

Scorsese praised Criterion's remastering of the 1948 film classic "The Red Shoes" for upcoming release on Blu-ray Disc.

 

"It's like experiencing the film for the first time again," he said. "It's not just the details of the eyes or such; it creates a completely different experience."

 

Movies viewed in the HD format boast a "film-grain quality," Scorsese said, adding Blu-ray "allows the film to be seen as closely as possible to how it was intended to be."

Martin Scorsese has said that viewing films on Blu-ray offers "a completely different experience" from conventional DVDs.

 

The Oscar-winning director, who recently completed filming Shutter Island with Leonardo DiCaprio, spoke about his fondness for the high definition format at a Blu-ray convention in Washington, DC.

The 66-year-old claimed that watching restored versions of older movies on Blu-ray is "like experiencing the film for the first time again".

 

He added: "I have a daughter who's 10, and she can't tell the difference between old films and new films. [Blu-ray] allows the film to be seen as closely as possible to how it was intended to be."

Scorsese is currently prepping his next film Silence for a 2011 release.