[Neil Jones]

Those two episodes of Mr Bean that were shot on location would (if rescanned/remastered properly) look wonderful, having been done on film in the first place. But of course the rest of the series was mostly done on tape so it would look a bit out of place.

The Mr Bean DVDs (the Brilliant boxset) were "restored", which is code for put through some processing algorithm to attempt to make it look better. There may be a limit as to how good you can get videotaped material to look no matter what type of processing you chuck at it. It was after all a limited resolution, the trade off of being cheaper and easier to edit versus film. Film you can rescan to any resolution you want (in theory), if it was good stock in the first place.

Still processed videotape is better than the cropped dog's dinner that goes out on ITV2..