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Re: Newbie just starting S3 - Non-Spoilers ONLY! On the other hand, I had heard about how bad thirdspace was so often before I ever saw it, that when I finally did see it, I actually managed to enjoy myself. It isn't exactly a high point in JMS's writing, but I was entertained for the 90...

New who is actually broadcast in 25p, I believe. PalPLUS, the widescreen version of PAL over here, at least offers support for it. That is, the last 2 seasons were. Starting with 3, it will be done in HD (as is its spinoff series, Torchwood).

I think I finally get all what you're saying now. ;) I'm not sure you're right though, I don't know how much 'cultural familiarity' plays into things like this. It's an interesting theory, but I can't say I've heard it before. There is actually something interesting going on with early Who, to...

Re: Newbie just starting S3 - Non-Spoilers ONLY! I just wanted to say that I'm enjoying this thread, ilikemike. It's always fun to see someone watching B5 for the first time. Also, the countdown should've started now, right? Z minus... The countdown to... well, something. :D

b4bob, it's not that the issue is confusing, as that you are making connections that you neither properly explain, and don't really seem very clear or sound without explanation. From what I get after re-reading your first post a few times, the argumentation you are making goes something like...

That quote is about the frame rate and resolution. When you said "Maybe he didn’t realize to us Yanks interlaced = cheap", that isn't quite the same as what JMS is describing there. And, like I said, I sincerely doubt it was because of ignorance from the side of Thornton, but rather it was...

Yeah, that doesn't sound quite right, b4bob. For someone who says he was part of a community that Ron Thornton interacted with, I think you're selling him massively short. Most people involved in the more technical sides of making television should know the difference between progressive and...

Very interesting story b4bob. Sounds like it was a fun community. And vacantlook, I believe that is pretty much what happened. Or at least, according to JMS here: Which makes it sound like they were legally required to turn everything over, and that with ND folding after Crusade was cancelled...

With regards to it sticking out like a sore thumb or not... I guess to me it already sticks out like a sore thumb. Changing the aspect ratio of 4:3 shots by cropping was, for a lack of a better term, already messing with the show. And redoing those shots so they wouldn't need to be cropped...

Not from fans, per se... All the audio of those Who episodes that were trashed survives, and those were indeed recordings done by fans. However, for the episodes where video survives, it's generally either that for some reason the BBC didn't decide to trash it, that BBC employees actually stole...

Makes you wonder who they have in charge of their archiving, eh? Still, B5 fans have it better than Doctor Who fans, probably the most extreme case of archiving gone wrong. Where the BBC archivists quite literally trashed a good part of the first six seasons of the show to make room in their...

Lost, far as I know. To quote JMS again: And at the moment that the widescreen versions were made, to recreate all those archived CGI files that were lost would've been too expensive. Quoting from the JMS post I linked in my first post in this thread: If they ever will be mysteriously found...

I'd say I agree with your assessment of the Star Wars special editions. And "it works when things are enhanced, but not when narrative is changed" sounds like a really good way to approach these things. And where you mention that you can't rescale CGI for a new resolution in the same way you...

I browse these boards every once in a while as a lurker, and I saw this topic. Since I am the one who asked the original questions, I thought I'd share my thoughts. :) First of all, maybe a tad off topic, but I don't think it should be assumed that everyone thinks the Star Trek TOS HD editions...