Movies shot on film are simply rescanned frame by frame at a higher resolution, 
just about anything shot digitally is shot at a minimum of 1920x1080 (Phantom 
Menace was shot at that res as I recall)

And of course, anything CG can be arbitrarily rerendered at whatever resolution 
is desired.

That was the plan for Babylon 5, except someone lost the mesh/texture/scene 
files to rerender it in lightwave :/

On 19 Mar 2010, at 09:22, Winterlight wrote:

> Here is something I don't get. How can they take a movie, like the Lord of 
> the Rings, before HD and blue-ray were in use and then turn it into a blu-ray 
> movie. Don't you need special HD cameras to make a HD movie?
> 

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