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An additional thought regarding Up-scaling: Until about 7 years ago, almost all digital VFX (including on True Lies and Titanic mentioned in the article: done b
by pixelesque 3y ago
An additional thought regarding Up-scaling: Until about 7 years ago, almost all digital VFX (including on True Lies and Titanic mentioned in the article: done by Digital Domain at the time) for film was still being rendered/delivered at 2K (other than occasional larger format things like IMax), so it's almost certain that in the 90s/2000s, while the plate footage on film might in theory have been very high resolution if scanned (if the film stock was good enough), the VFX delivered for it will have been only good enough for 2K resolution as that's what it was rendered/delivered at originally.
So anything "requiring" a 4K release would almost certainly have had to have been up-scaled, unless the studio managed to get the original VFX vendor to re-render/comp and deliver 4K footage which I've heard of happening in a few cases (Star Wars re-releases, some Pixar stuff), but other than that isn't generally done and the VFX can only be upscaled from the "original" delivery.
- b112 3y agoBabylon5 being the sadest case of this issue, although latest upscaled releases (18 months ago or some such?) are impressive.
- dwd 3y agoYou have to wonder if they did it on purpose, and someone just made the call that it wasn't worth hanging onto. Remember also that Crusader was canned after one season so there wasn't a lot of love for sci-fi. The CGI could have done with a re-render, but the live shots might come out looking really bad trying to clean them up.
- rini17 3y agoThere was and is a lot of love outside the US. But that is only an afterthought for the US copyright holders. Latest B5 film, The Road Home still can't be legally streamed in some EU countries, months after release, despite there are plenty of fans.
- b112 3y agoFor some inexplicable reason, the animation is horrid. You can't even tell who's who, faces have no definition, etc.
- dwd 3y agoI sometimes wonder if B5 or Firefly would have got a better go in the current environment of multiple subscription/streaming channels where there is a lot more appetite for shows that are different. B5 obviously would have come out different as they would not have rushed to fit the planned storyline into season 4.
- rini17 3y agoYou somehow missed the chorus of complaints about promising series axed by streaming services after season 1 or 2?
- upon_drumhead 3y agoThe blue ray complete series pack was released this month. I’m working my way through season 1 for the nth time :)
- kranke155 3y agoThat kind of makes sense, but it would have only been necessary to use this on some VFX shots.