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Originally Posted by Derek Miner
So it's really unlikely Babylon 5 will ever look better, even though it's theoretically possible (unless they junked all the film).
Short answer: It's all in the way that the film gets converted into video, which took a long time to perfect. And "films" for theaters are expensive, while television is cheap.
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Nice explanation. One specific point to B5: I think the effects were done on video, and worse still the digital files have been lost, so unless some serious coin is spent in re-doing all the effects, the PQ of B5 can't be improved.
I think the same applies to TNG, effects were only done in video, so again PQ is constrained by that.