MattHR
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Yeah, I'm expecting them to go 16x9 for the Blu-ray. I'd prefer the correct AR but at least, it's not cropped.Adam Lenhardt said:Hopefully it will be OAR, but I doubt it given that the streaming HD versions are 16x9.
TravisR said:Yeah, I'm expecting them to go 16x9 for the Blu-ray. I'd prefer the correct AR but at least, it's not cropped.
I don't think Fox was broadcasting in HD in 2002 so none of the episodes were seen in widescreen until the DVDs. The show definitely wasn't broadcast in widescreen in SD*. Hopefully, the first four years look like the S5 to 9 DVDs- empty space around the 4x3 image but nothing too distracting.Adam Lenhardt said:This is true. The last five seasons were broadcast in widescreen, so I'm not so much concerned about those. But especially the first few seasons, protecting for widescreen is not the same as framing for widescreen.
TravisR said:* There was one 'gimmick' episode (6ABX03- Triangle) that was broadcast in widescreen.
That's the one. It was shot in widescreen and in long continuous takes (a la Hitchcock's Rope). From S5 to S7, they had an annual 'gimmick' episode that was usually a fun experiment- S5 had a black & white episode, S6 had the widescreen/long take episode and S7 had Mulder & Scully on Cops.Greg_S_H said:Was a big deal made about that at the time? Does it involve a ship?
I haven't seen the entire series discussed but based on TV airings and Netflix of the early seasons, the effects shots are upscaled. There's some discussion of it here: http://www.hometheaterforum.com/topic/340428-the-x-files-season-one-in-hd-on-netflix/The Obsolete Man said:I haven't been keeping up with this too much, so I have to ask... Have these episodes gotten the full Star Trek TNG treatment so they're true HD with redone effects?
TravisR said:I haven't seen the entire series discussed but based on TV airings and Netflix of the early seasons, the effects shots are upscaled. There's some discussion of it here: http://www.hometheaterforum.com/topic/340428-the-x-files-season-one-in-hd-on-netflix/
turtledove said:And while initial broadcasts of the show in HD had upscaled FX it does look as if they have been newly redone using a new system that was also used for TNG so the effects should be proper HD too.
Season 9 was broadcast in the fake HD Fox Digital Widescreen system they had before 2006.TravisR said:I don't think Fox was broadcasting in HD in 2002 so none of the episodes were seen in widescreen until the DVDs. The show definitely wasn't broadcast in widescreen in SD*. Hopefully, the first four years look like the S5 to 9 DVDs- empty space around the 4x3 image but nothing too distracting.
* There was one 'gimmick' episode (6ABX03- Triangle) that was broadcast in widescreen.
I'm just guessing but based on other Fox Blu-ray sets, they put up to 5 episodes per disc so I think there will be a total of 43 discs (5 discs each for S1 to S4 & S6 to S8 and 4 discs each for S5 & S9).Sam Favate said:So it looks like the movies are not included. Any idea how many discs are in the set? I can't find that number.
smithbrad said:For TNG they completed recreated from scratch the effects in HD since they were originally only done in SD. There is a big difference in cost and labor doing that then just taking the SD effects, cleaning them up, and upconverting. Are you sure that is the case for X-Files? If so, that would be a big plus for the Blu-ray release.
Sam Favate said:I've ordered this, because at that price, how could you not? It's more than $100 cheaper than last year's Batman set, and it has substantially more content (200 hours of TV vs about 60, not to mention the extras).