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The analyses of SAC on anibin.blogspot.com (at least TV airings and Blu-ray commercials; doesn't look like he tested the actual Blu-rays) say that SAC is indeed an upscale. I do remember seeing mention of SAC being animated in HD, perhaps it was done at around 540p or so?

But either way, the SAC DVDs are so bad and riddled with edge enhancement (with the US DVDs being even worse than the JP ones), that the Blu-rays will still be a significant upgrade even if they are upscales.

configspace wrote:

Do Hulu or Netflix or iTunes ever replace their streams later with the updated home video versions, or offer them to begin with?

Netflix normally only uses home video versions.

I haven't checked out their rare sub-only stream of AoT, but given when it was posted, I wouldn't be surprised if it were the home video version.

Neither Hulu or iTunes license the anime, so what is there would be up to the publisher that placed it on those services.

Echo_City wrote:

Something about that seems fishy. In a failing of the nomenclature the "1080" doesn't tell us the horizontal resolution so it may well be an upscale on a Full HD TV regardless and if it is 1080i content that has to be deinterlaced then that just makes it that much worse.

The discs are in 1080i60 because BDs do not support 1080p30 and SAC is apparently one of the shows that mixed 24fps and 30fps material.