When it comes to anime produced in the last couple of years, most masters are in native HD, so they're relatively simple to port to Blu Ray. Watching shows like Macross Frontier, or even an older show like Darker Than Black in Blu Ray will end up spoiling your eyes. The problem gets more complex, if you're/were a R1 DVD buyer, and own many of the same shows on standard DVD. While Blu Ray is nice and shiny, it's often forgotten brother, "remastered" adds life to older shows where no HD master is available.
For me, remastered was always code for "looks better", until I actually took the time to read up on how much work remastering really takes. Your movie or show looks better because a team of people took the time remove things like dust from the original frames, as well as restoring colors to original intention. With things mostly done on computers, and with digital coloring, filming an anime that uses cells sounds foreign. Of course very few of these remastering jobs make it over to the R1 market, with the lone exception being hit shows like Cowboy Bebop or Full Metal Panic.
Still, it's a pleasure being able to watch an old favorite like the 08th MS Team remastered, and realizing that this will be the best quality you'll ever see it on, unless the reanimate it. Couple that in with the fact that many early R1 DVD releases, such as Macross Plus(pictured in the top of this posts), suffer from inferior, almost VHS like masters. The remastering process really shines when classics, titles like Macross: DYRL get the preferential treatment.
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