Comments on: Essay: Why Buffy may never be Blu.

By: rey

rey — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:46:20 +0000

Joss says “It was an intimate, TV-shaped show.” Hey, stupid….TVs are all shaped WIDESCREEN now.

By: rey

rey — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:41:27 +0000

I don’t even want Bluray…just widescreen.

By: rey

rey — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:37:25 +0000

I want widescreen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I already own the normal DVDs….and now…..

I want widescreen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: John Pavlich

John Pavlich — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 03:00:53 +0000

This is true, as I mentioned in the essay. What’s interesting is that due to HD broadcasts on cable and also up-conversions on Netflix Streaming (which does make the show look better, since compression isn’t so much an issue), it could be argued that these iterations are enough of a bump in image quality, they would give technicians something to work with, so a Blu-ray transfer using that material could be feasible, in theory. Wow, that was quite the run on sentence.

By: buttgumpling

buttgumpling — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:16:53 +0000

@CIL They can’t release Buffy on a 1080p 4:3 blu-ray format because the editing and effects were done after the film was down-converted to 480p. They would need to redo the editing and effects again!

By: fred

fred — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:00:03 +0000

Honestly none of the examples look like deal killers to me, on bluray you could offer both cuts of each episode, I don’t see why he has to limit this to one version.

By: Cil

Cil — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:08:10 +0000

Although all your points are valid, they could just release Buffy and Angel blu-ray in the 4:3 format. Or this can’t be done????? I don’t understand much of the BD format, but it really has to be widescreen??? In some years and with the increase in technology, our DVD sets will be unwatchable.

By: George

George — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:57:38 +0000

If they ever release Buffy and Angel in Blu-Ray, I’m buying. Until then, I won’t even bother getting myself a Blu-Ray player.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 16 May 2011 20:28:31 +0000

Hi there
an amazing article and heres to a Blu ray release!

I have the UK releases which are in widescreen from season4 and yes the cheese man is visable in this shot!

at least Buffy is on film and thereful easier to upgrade to 1080p as appose to classic Dr Who on 525 video tape

By: Howard

Howard — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 14:17:42 +0000

The problem with the BD regime is that it is a
resolution apartheid. BD should have been an
open platform capable of presenting ALL native
standards (in fact it is in theory but the regime has made your player and the disc manufacture prohibit this capability) allowing your screen remap whatever the native rez is.
For example you cannot even buy a native 720p TV show or concert on BD they are all
bumped up to 1080 before going onto the disc.
The original SD masters of BUFFY has far more quality than the DVD’s allow due to regime policy of forcing too many episode on a]single DVD…take for example THE BODY you will notice that due its critical acclaim that episode on the American R1 DVD’s looks superb but the other episodes on the same disc
look dirty and grainy because they had to steal
bit rate from those episodes to make THE BODY look sublime. If BD had been all rez native respectful instead of a 1080 dictatorship
the SD masters of BUFFY could have been given 2 to 3 times more than the max bit-rate
they ever had on DVD plus LPCM sound on BD
and with a bit of electronic clean-up or even without they would look stunning. Our best hope is an SD card or memory stick format that is all native rez friendly.

By: Salman

Salman — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 15:12:57 +0000

well,,,, my comment has been mysteriously removed,,, but i am still writing it !!!:
“buffy is getting a theatrical reboot planned for 2012 ,,, so just like Star Trek : original series getting a blu-ray update ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
buffy will too, because vampires are ,, well just like one of my friends said:”vampires are the shit” ,,,, we all know that vampires are famous right now and buffy is a VAMPIRE slayer ,,and with buffy being NOW and not THEN and FOX will see the cult that buffy has and buffy will hit the markets on blu-ray at sometime in 2013 ,, 2014 maybe 2015, but atleast for now buffy will be in the movies (cinma) and if the movie turns out a hit (wich sadly effects the buffy series blu-ray chance because the buffy cult is declaring war on warrner bros. for the joss whedon less reboot and i say this with the most regret if the movie fales just like the original 1992 BAD movie buffy series blu-ray chance is low ,,, like never ,, but fox knows the success that the buffy series have so it still might get out on blu-ray,,,, WOW that was a LONG SIDEBAR) …. buffy is getting out on blu-ray ,,,,,, well,, that was long but at the end buffy is gonna be available on blu-ray soon

thats right our slayer is goona wear BLU soon!

By: James

James — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:51:56 +0000

I’m so glad people are at least discussing the possibility of Buffy coming to Blu Ray. I own the uk chosen collection and from season 4 onwards it’s shown in the widescreen format. I prefer this as I have a ws hdtv so in the early seasons there’s black bars at the sides which I find more distracting than the odd goof here and there. I’m usually so engrossed with the series that I don’t notice most of them anyway.

I’m not really sure how big a following Buffy really has worldwide but it’d need to be pretty big to make the transfer financially viable to whoever is in charge of these things. From what i’ve read here and elsewhere it will take a great effort to do the transfer right and that’s what worries me. As previously mentioned I have the entire series on dvd but I’d gladly fork out the money for a Blu Ray transfer but only if it’s done right and not some half-assed effort to cash in on the die hard fans.

I realise there’s not been any activity here for a few months now but I’ll keep checking in here just in case.

Bye.