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I recently tried to rewatch Babylon 5 but the resolution was terrible and it looked bad on my TV so I gave up pretty quickly. I hope someone does the same treat
by Jerry2 8y ago
I recently tried to rewatch Babylon 5 but the resolution was terrible and it looked bad on my TV so I gave up pretty quickly. I hope someone does the same treatment to Babylon 5 episodes!
- rosser 8y agoUnfortunately, that's probably the "last best chance" for a not-awful watching experience. At some point after the show wrapped, they lost all of their 3d models, so they will never be able to re-render a single ship. EDIT: I didn't mention fan models as a possible approach because this is WB/PETN we're talking about here. They aren't Paramount-dumb, but they seemed take that as a challenge, at least vis à vis B5.
- coryrc 8y agoThere weren't enough polygons on them to look good at higher resolutions; they'd really have to be redone anyway.
- Zardoz84 8y agoyou are pretty wrong . Watch the original meshes at HD resolution : https://youtu.be/uHAuK_lDkk0 https://youtu.be/uHAuK_lDkk0
- coryrc 8y agoDid we watch the same video? It looks like a 2002-era video game when rendered at 1080p. It does not realistic at all; it is nothing like improving a film video of a model (film is basically ~5k equivalent and a model is.. infinite?).
- boomlinde 8y agoI agree that it doesn't look particularly good. The question is whether it's due to a lack of polygons.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoThey used a fan-created model of Babylon 5 for The Lost Tales, and there likely exists fan meshes for most of the rest of the models on the show. Arguably, even rebuilding the models of B5's relatively simple models is not that big a deal compared to all of the editing work. The biggest reason you'll never see a remaster of Babylon 5 is that it lacks the continued financial interest of it's backers or widespread market appeal. Star Trek is a wildly popular 50 year old franchise, which is still seeing new work today, and even then, CBS decided it wasn't worth it to remaster two of it's shows.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoThere's probably six million recreations of every 3D model in B5 made by fans, just like it is with Star Trek. Lack of 3D models isn't really a show-stopper, just ups the labor requirements. Hell, if respective owners relaxed their grips on IP, remasters would've been done already by fans of both Star Trek and B5 (I'd happily participate).
- philwelch 8y agoB5 is even worse off--anything that has an effects shot basically only exists in tape quality, and the original CGI assets have disappeared.
- Rebelgecko 8y agoSome of the CGI/composite shots in Babylon 5 are particularly horrible. If I remember correctly, the show was originally shot at an aspect ratio of 16:9. Because it was only going to air in 4:3, the special effects were done in 4:3. For the DVDs (which I think are the same version that Amazon streams), the 4:3 shots were enlarged to fill a 16:9 screen, making the picture look fuzzy. It would be interesting to see how well this technique would work on those types of shots.
- IOT_Apprentice 8y agohttps://twitter.com/straczynski https://twitter.com/straczynski has stated that due to the politics between Paramount and PTen, there will NEVER be any further work on B5 related works. Someone like Disney would have to purchase the rights to change this.
- jccalhoun 8y agoAccording to JMS, Warner Bros has zero interesting in anything Babylon 5 because it was created under the weird PTEN thing and not by Warner proper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Time_Entertainment_Network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Time_Entertainment_Netwo...
- mixmastamyk 8y agoFirst season renders look pretty bad, but improve by the second season.