Originally Posted by bruceames

They are just HD movies recorded off the TV onto HD DVD blanks. What's funny is that in this case, the HD DVD recording looks sharper than the Blu-ray release. Sometimes you don't know how much DNR goes into a transfer until you have a relatively DNR-free copy to compare it to. I haven't compared any others but I don't expect such results to be the norm, as I have heard From Russia With Love BD is not such a good transfer to begin with.