Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Wide-Screening Conversions Would Be Impossible! :), April 30, 2009

By The Mysterious Monk

Dudes! (And dude-ettes.)

Conversion of stuff filmed in "TV" screen format into a "wide-screen" format is impossible! Can’t be done. Never has been done. Won’t be done.

What *has* happened is certain cretins at certain greedy studios have decided to take advantage of customer ignorance by *pretending* to create "wide-screen" versions of TV shows by cutting off material from the top and (more often) from the bottom of the frame.

For example, check out what the studio did to the old movie "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance". All the actors were essentially cut off at the knees to make the DVD version *appear* to be wide-screen.

It’s like tryong to convert a picture from your old high school yearbook into "wide-screen" — you’re going to have to use a pair of scissors.

That’s the only way to do it, fans. By giving you *less* visual material than was in the original "TV" sized frame.

TV screen sized was the way BtVS was filmed. There is no material off to the sides of the frame that was cut off to fit the old-style TVs — what the camera operator’s viewfinder saw is what was filmed.

That being said, it would be nice to see a cleaned up high-def version of Buffy, even in its original TV aspect — some of the currently released DVD’s are awful damn fuzzy and some scenes are extremely grainy for some reason.

Maybe they could clean those up a bit?

Here’s hoping so.

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Get Buffy on Blu-ray!, January 18, 2009

By Speedking

One of the greatest television series ever "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" would be perfect for a high definition re-release. The series was mainly filmed on 35 mm film which makes a great source for an HD transfer. Hopefully the producers won’t wait to long to get a Buffy blu-ray out. I’m just wondering if they are going to start with season 1, which was filmed on 16 mm. Well, I think with Buffy’s cult following a blu-ray - no matter which season - would definitely be a hit. I for one would buy it immediately without hesitation.