From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   http://www.vox.com/2014/12/12/7385261/buffy-ruined   
      
   Fox is remastering Buffy in HD — and now there are crew members in shots   
      
   20th Century Fox is ruining the seminal TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.   
   There's no other way to put it.   
      
   The studio is putting out a widescreen edition of the show, but it has   
   bungled the job so badly that one scene even shows a crew member standing   
   around on the side of the screen. The remastered episodes have been airing   
   since August, but a compilation of particularly egregious changes to the   
   show began making the rounds today.   
      
   The company doesn't seem to be consulting the series' creator, Joss Whedon,   
   or any of its original technical personnel. Episodes remastered for HD have   
   been popping up in reruns on the cable channel Pivot, and the company   
   appears to be finished with remastering seasons one and two (of seven). It's   
   possible the company is prepping a BluRay release for next year.   
      
   The problem is that the HD Buffy seems to have simply chosen at random how   
   to change the program's aspect ratio. Some shots have added visual   
   information at the edges, while others crop out visual information at the   
   top and bottom, making the shot wider, sure, but also removing crucial   
   context here and there. Some shots have even had effects and other important   
   visual cues removed entirely.   
      
   Fans of the program have been tracking the changes, and this Facebook note   
   is the best repository of them so far. Here are some visual examples.   
      
       [have to go to the link to see the side-by-side comparison pics]   
      
   1) Yes, that's a crew member in the shot. The new, wider image now includes   
   things that were cropped out of the original broadcast, including the guy   
   standing just off-camera.   
      
   2) A filter was originally applied to this shot to make it appear that the   
   scene was taking place at night [Angel on the floor next to Buffy in bed].   
   That filter has apparently been removed, rendering this scene a little   
   nonsensical.   
      
   3) Here you get a good sense of how zooming in on a portion of the shot to   
   make it fill an entire 16:9 screen ruins the composition and removes some of   
   the grandeur of a moment. [A bit too dark to make out]   
      
   ..........................   
      
   http://www.zap2it.com/blogs/joss_whedon_says_widescreen_buffy_is   
   nonsense-2014-12   
      
   Joss Whedon says widescreen 'Buffy' is 'nonsense'   
      
   Whedon has shared his dismay at changing the ratio of the show in a previous   
   statement, saying: "Adding space to the sides simply for the sake of trying   
   to look more cinematic would betray the very exact mise-en-scene I was   
   trying to create. I am a purist, and this is the purest way to watch   
   "Buffy". I have resisted the effort to letterbox "Buffy" from the start and   
   always will, because that is not the show we shot."   
      
      
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