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What he's talking about is that the CGI in B5 was filmed in 4:3 and not in 16:9 like the rest of the show. When they did the "high res" releases they had to mak
by zehaeva 10mo ago
What he's talking about is that the CGI in B5 was filmed in 4:3 and not in 16:9 like the rest of the show. When they did the "high res" releases they had to make the choice of doing everything in 16:9 or in 4:3.
In 4:3 it looks good and like the original airing show, in 16:9 any non-digital/composite shot looks freaking fantastic. But once you get to any digital or composite shot it takes a nose dive in quality.
- b112 10mo agoThere was recent (last few years) work done to fix all of this. https://www.modeemi.fi/~leopold/Babylon5/DVD/DVDTransfer.html#210211hd https://www.modeemi.fi/~leopold/Babylon5/DVD/DVDTransfer.htm... I have these versions, and it's world better than everything beforehand. It's also a good opportunity for a re-watch!
- sgt 10mo agoA very well written show. It's crazy to think a lot of people don't even get to watch this, because it's so hard to find. I couldn't find it anywhere (except for DVD's) so I had to resort to torrents.
- WorldMaker 10mo agoThere's a 4K 4:3 remaster streaming on HBO Max. It wasn't exactly well advertised (certainly not to the extent that it has been hard to miss this Mad Men advertising), but it exists and is a good way to watch the show. Feels a bit less cinematic not being in 16:9, but it looks good other than that because the show was shot to be 4:3 safe (as that was still the most common TV at the time).
- sgt 10mo agoAlso a US only thing. Torrents keeping the rest of us alive.
- temp0826 10mo agoI loved B5's story, but no remaster is going to fix the cheeseball acting of the show. It felt 200 years old even when it was airing. (Sigh, I'm probably still going to rewatch it...)
- sgt 10mo agoI think Garibaldi was actually quite good. Sheridan was maybe a bit cheesy at times but definitely gave off that vibe of a leader one could follow into battle.
- 5555624 10mo agoIt's streaming, for free, on Tubi
- sgt 10mo agoNot available outside the US, I think. Torrents are then just more convenient.
- 5555624 9mo agoUnited States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, United Kingdom. Parts of Latin America: Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Puerto Rico. If you want to pirate it, with yt-dlp and the URL, you can download items from the Tubi web site. (Don't ask me how I know.)