B5 Widescreen Set
Has anyone got the B5 Movie Widescreen Set who can confirm/deny the below
story (Taken from the B5 JMS Mailing list):
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Philip Ayres
payres@
www.netcomuk.co.uk/~payres
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----- Original Message -----
story (Taken from the B5 JMS Mailing list):
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Philip Ayres
payres@
www.netcomuk.co.uk/~payres
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----- Original Message -----
BTW, you once mentioned widescreen releases in the U.K., but were
unsure if they would be DVD or VHS. WB has released a boxed set of all
five TV movies including 4 "widescreen" releases, but it turns out that
only two of them are truly widescreen transfers ("Thirdspace" and "A
Call to Arms.") "In the Beginning" and "River of Souls" are merely the
4:3 frame cropped down to 1.77:1 (or thereabouts.) So they are missing
material at the top and bottom, and add nothing to the sides. (You can
see actual screen caps comparing the widescreen and standard releases
at http://www.paul.harper.net/widescreen/index.htm)
It appears to me from these screen images that you shot "B5" on
Super35 using the "common topline" method of simultaneously framing for
4:3 and widescreen. If this is the case than the new VHS versions of
"ItB" and "RoS" are WORSE than full-frame version since they actually
crop NECESSARY information from the top of the picture while adding
nothing to the sides.
Does anyone at WB know what they're doing? Who is in charge over
there?
Any comments or insights would be appreciated.
Regards,
Joe (Who is starting to think the Time-Warner business plan was written
by Kafka.)
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Date: 24 Nov 1999 22:36:14 -0700
From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@>
To: (blocked)
Subject: B5 on home video
Message-ID: <forum.babylon5.72676@>
References: <forum.babylon5.72647@>
I'm astouned that they would do that to the two movies...there
was no reason to do so unless they just didn't want to spend the
additonal money on two more transfers. I'm afraid the ways of WB
utterly defy explanation....
jms
unsure if they would be DVD or VHS. WB has released a boxed set of all
five TV movies including 4 "widescreen" releases, but it turns out that
only two of them are truly widescreen transfers ("Thirdspace" and "A
Call to Arms.") "In the Beginning" and "River of Souls" are merely the
4:3 frame cropped down to 1.77:1 (or thereabouts.) So they are missing
material at the top and bottom, and add nothing to the sides. (You can
see actual screen caps comparing the widescreen and standard releases
at http://www.paul.harper.net/widescreen/index.htm)
It appears to me from these screen images that you shot "B5" on
Super35 using the "common topline" method of simultaneously framing for
4:3 and widescreen. If this is the case than the new VHS versions of
"ItB" and "RoS" are WORSE than full-frame version since they actually
crop NECESSARY information from the top of the picture while adding
nothing to the sides.
Does anyone at WB know what they're doing? Who is in charge over
there?
Any comments or insights would be appreciated.
Regards,
Joe (Who is starting to think the Time-Warner business plan was written
by Kafka.)
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Date: 24 Nov 1999 22:36:14 -0700
From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@>
To: (blocked)
Subject: B5 on home video
Message-ID: <forum.babylon5.72676@>
References: <forum.babylon5.72647@>
I'm astouned that they would do that to the two movies...there
was no reason to do so unless they just didn't want to spend the
additonal money on two more transfers. I'm afraid the ways of WB
utterly defy explanation....
jms