From: jwkenne@attglobal.net
Harold Groot wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:29:54 -0400, "John W. Kennedy"
> wrote:
>
>> David E. Powell wrote:
>>> I have heard that the DVDs were cut off on the top and the bottom - Is
>>> this true? I would very much like to see them in original format if
>>> possible, even if it means space at the sides on the "new style" HD
>>> TV.
>> It's complicated. The original live footage was shot wide-screen, and
>> the original CGI was designed wide-screen. But the original computers
>> were programmed only to generate the central area of the images, to save
>> computer time. The idea was that, eventually, the missing CGI side
>> panels would be generated for the DVD.
>>
>> And then some damfool at Warner Brothers lost the master data, so that
>> the missing parts can no longer be created.
>>
>> So the live footage is being shown the way it was intended to be shown
>> all along, but scenes with CGI, including scenes composited with live
>> action, have had to be trimmed top and bottom to match.
>>
>> Maybe in 5-10 years they'll do the same thing that "Star Trek" has done,
>> and create all-new CGI.
>> John W. Kennedy
>
>
> There's more to the story that that.
Well, not really. You are describing what happened to the initial Sci-Fi
Channel prints. I am describing what happened to the DVDs. The Sci-Fi
Channel prints were just plain botched by the outside contractor hired
to make them, but that was fixed before the DVDs were made. The DVDs are
not botched, as such; they are an awkward compromise made because Warner
Brothers insisted that they have custody of the CGI masters, and then
lost them.
--
John W. Kennedy
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Marcus Aurelius is as naïve as the fear that ultimate power inevitably
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