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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] ^It's not just the size of B5's fanbase that preventing them from upgrading to HD. It's the sheer volume of shots that'd have to be recreated. B5 seriously pushed the envelope in CG effects, not just the limits of what the technology could do at the time but the number of new shots each show could deliver...by several orders of magnitude. While B5 was churning out HUNDREDS of shots a season, TNG was lucky if it got half a dozen new effect shots a year and, I might add, done for twice the budget B5 had. Then there's the matter of aspect ratio. While all the live action was shot in widescreen, some behind the scenes penny pinching on the part of a certain executive producer (not JMS) meant that the FI folks could only render the effects shots in 4:3. While they did have the foresight to compose shots so they could be cropped for widescreen, this rather drastically lowers the quality and of course any live action composite shot it looks even worse because you're looking a widescreen footage that has been cropped to 4:3, transferred to video then cropped down again for widescreen. To illustrate, this is what happens every time there's a visual effect (like any time a PPG is fired.) [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v24/Reverend/B5DVD_AR.jpg[/IMG] It's basically like pushing the zoom button on you DVD player...only at VHS quality. On top of that they'd basically be starting from scratch in terms of assets. WB went and lost not only the meshes, but all the damn scenes files too. That means that they can't just build new high-res meshes, load them into the old animation setups and hit 'render.' It'd be a square one remake. All that plus some very odd internal business politics between the various division of WB are the real reason why we won't be seeing B5 on Bluray any time soon. A shame really because all the actual live action footage was shot on film and would have upscaled nicely. As for Trek...I think as fans we were lucky to get two shows out of it, never mind *FIVE* of the sodding things. I'm not in any hurry to see another. I have my DS9 DVDs, so I'm happy. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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