Babylon 5

Chanur said:

Every time I come to this thread its in the hopes of an HD remaster.

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details in the article don't seem that promising.

4:3 but if it's at least HD quality scaled to 4K that's better than 480p.

Yeah I just downloaded rips all 5 seasons in 1080p format, 58 gigs a season so 300 gigs total almost, compared to 10 gigs a season for the older 480p VUDU rips. Quality is definitely better but its still 4:3 and the CGI is upscaled, not remastered.

Still great to have, as far as I know the "remaster" is digital only on HBO max or

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spronk said:

Yeah I just downloaded rips all 5 seasons in 1080p format, 58 gigs a season so 300 gigs total almost, compared to 10 gigs a season for the older 480p VUDU rips. Quality is definitely better but its still 4:3 and the CGI is upscaled, not remastered.

Still great to have, as far as I know the "remaster" is digital only on HBO max or

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Do you want this to be stretched to 16:9? I'd prefer they just maintain the default aspect ratio and not stretch the image.

certainly not the best way to compare with youtube compression

Lanx said:

was the babylon 5 masters on film? and not cheap vhs like voyager?

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Babylon 5 was on film and WB has all of it except the pilot movie, who's film was destroyed in an earthquake, I believe.

They used the film for these remasters and I think it's in 4:3 so they didnt have to redo the CGI, just upscale it. They could fully redo it if they wanted to; as far as I know Babylon 5 was shot on film and kept the whole 16:9 frame clean to accommodate widescreen, since it was coming into popularity at the time. But the CGI was not created for it, so thats why we get 4:3 remaster.

Nothing with a hundred episodes is going to get the ST:TNG treatment, simply not cost effective.

FoH, always delivering gifts when least expected. I always wanted to pick this show up and watch it, but couldn’t get past how terrible it looked in SD. I had seen several episodes out of order and context when I was a kid, and have always been intrigued. I’m 6 episodes in now on HBO, and can’t believe I’ve slept on this show for so long.

There are apparently a few minutes missing from the current HBO/Amazon/etc HD versions, and some minor artifacting and audio issues people have reported. Supposedly another pass is gonna be done for the bluray releases done this spring. The HBO one is the best one to watch for now, but for collections and stuff may wanna hold off.

This is just a DS9 knockoff.