Buffy - The Vampire Slayer (The complete series collection)

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I can't agree there. The benefits would be MASSIVE (& what makes you think the 16mm series weren't 24fps?). Nearly all drama here in the UK was shot on 16mm & looked very good. Those early episodes are hardly viewable in the UK, I'm sure standards converting them to PAL didn't help. The picture is really soft, far too dark, & the images are swimming in digital noise reduction (like looking at the picture through five mosquito nets!). All the seasons, 16 & 35 needs the original negives scanned to HD, all the special effects redone in HD. The biggest improvement would be in the 16mm seasons. It's a huge job, but Paramount managed it with Star Trek TNG, so Fox has to bit the bullet & do it sometime, it's an important series, it spawned so many other programs. Above all, what it comes down to is this: Buffy is a long show. 144 episodes would have be transferred from film (which is far from an automatic process, it's actually quite labor intensive), effects need to be done from scratch, and even if they do it by starting with the first season and seeing if it sells before they try to sell more... well, Season 1 looks bad. The biggest problem with how it looks is more about the lighting setup than anything else, but that is definitely a consideration, and it'll be very difficult, if it's even possible, to make that season look good on Blu-ray, so it might not sell well because of how it looks. Overall, it's too much to try without a crazy-devoted fanbase. As the boxset’s director Robert Meyer Burnett told Trek News: “Both Deep Space Nine and Voyager would require at least the same amount of time, manpower, and money, but neither show was ever as popular as TNG or TOS. So, how can CBS be expected to shell out probably 20-million dollars per series to remaster them into HD?”

More common is the cheat of filming scenes at night. Night shooting is hugely expensive (everyone's on overtime) so TV and film will instead shoot the scene in the day and then apply a filter to make it look like night. This is most noticeable in the third Lord of the Rings movie, The Return of the King, when Pippin finds Merry after the Battle of the Pelennor. In the theatrical version of the film, he finds him in daylight. In the Extended Edition, the filter has been changed and the scene is now set at dusk to indicate more time as passed. It's the exact same scene, just changed from one time of day to another thanks to the simple use of a filter. Can these shows keep up with the latest demands of high-definition technology? And more importantly, should they? Whether it’s the superb restoration of The Next Generation from the outright vandalism done to Buffy, remastering shows in high-definition always changes them in some way. Appropriately for a show without an end, the release of each classic Doctor Who story has enough diligence put into it that it feels definitive at the time of release, and there’s always added value each time they revisit one. For physical media releases at least, these additional features are more of a selling point than the incremental improvements in picture quality. “Enhance!” For vampires, going to sleep at 2pm in front of partially open blinds would appear to be a bad idea. Definition refers to how many lines of information (pixels in the digital age) are used to make up the image. The more lines, the finer and more detailed the image. Older American TV shows used to have 480 lines of information running horizontally across the image. This is standard definition (SD). Modern TV shows have 1,080, which is referred to as high definition (HD) and is the current industry standard.

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Buffy aired just at the time this transition was beginning (1996-2003), and later seasons are protected for widescreen. In fact, the later seasons have been available in widescreen even in SD on DVD for a few years now. There are a few incidents where extras, equipment can be seen but these are relatively few and far between. In the first three to four seasons, however, the problems are far more commonplace. In a few places Fox have solved the problem by using digital effects to 'paint out' equipment or extras where they shouldn't be, which is laudable as it is both time-consuming and expensive to do. However, far more often the editors have simply cropped the image instead to remove the offending obstacle...and also sometimes taking off the top of the heads of the actors in the process. Even more weirdly, they seem to have cropped some images and then used the original image in the "Previously, on Buffy..." segments, showing that the original image was completely fine to use.

There’s an adage in fandom that tells us “the memory cheats.” Coined by Doctor Who producer John Nathan-Turner in the 1980s, it refers to a kind of Mandela Effect where we improve TV episodes we haven’t seen in a while in our heads. But in the age of DVD and Blu-ray, these shows are now available for posterity. Some of them have even been upscaled for glorious but utterly unforgiving high-definition formats. I feel the same way with the show. Having a grainy picture is good because it helps add to the vibe of the show. It feels more real. That is why I will never buy movies like Jaws or Friday the 13th on blu ray. It takes away from the experience.Even without this problem, there’s stuff where sunset scenes (like the famous one in the season three opener “Anne”) look like they take place in the middle of the day. Moreover, there’s a weird tint to all the daytime and exterior scenes that belies the absence of post-production that took place on the original standard definition version. Released on Blu-ray in 2009, the HD remaster of all seven seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation may be the platonic ideal of restoring geek TV for… well, the next generation. Note that the video was also shared by Kristine Sutherland (Joyce Summers), James C. Leary (Clem), David Fury, Tim Minear (producer, writer and director on "Angel" the TV show) and Nancy Holder (writer).