August 04 2016
Buffy now in HD on Netflix US.
The streaming versions have been replaced with the well known disastrous HD remasters. The Dusted podcast recorded a special show to talk about it.
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Nico-Angel | August 04, 12:40 CET
I wrote in too! Curious to see if those of us that care about artistic intent are enough for Netflix to respond. I expect they'll fix OMWF's running time soon! But I doubt we can fight off the whole impossibly shoddy HD transfer.
Example of how regular, non -Whedonesque fans feel: My roommate has been watching BTVS, first run though, on Netflix for months. She's in early season 5. Today I walked in on her. She hadn't noticed AT ALL that Buffy was altered to HD or widescreen overnight. And she's definitely not bothered.
Most people will shrug or celebrate the HD/widescreen. The average viewer doesn't care much what good color correction and framing look like, at least not enough to complain.
EDIT: And to be fair, it's not as though every shot or season is equally awful. It's a range from "eh" to "blood and tears mixing in my eyeballs". And occasionally something is pretty and makes me yearn for a careful HD version.
[ edited by KaileeA42 on 2016-08-04 22:22 ]
KaileeA42 | August 04, 13:19 CET
Grack21 | August 04, 14:52 CET
AndrewCrossett | August 04, 17:52 CET
Nebula1400 | August 04, 18:26 CET
I wish Joss would do something about this.
Ricardo L. | August 05, 03:41 CET
I didn't know that they cut some minutes in some cases.
A friend who only knew the HD version didn't like the originals, when he watched a video that compared both versions.
roadi | August 05, 04:12 CET
I would LOVE a HD version of BtVS, but everything I have heard about what they have done with this really bugs me. As @Ricardo L says, they have messed it up in several ways. I heard talk of sound guys etc being in the wider shots as another example of how the framing is wrecked. So, no, not something I'm going to watch now or later, I'd rather stick with SD. It is a shame that Joss obviously can't stop it (I'm assuming of course that he would want to).
Stoney | August 05, 04:29 CET
Scraggles | August 05, 07:31 CET
ActualSize | August 05, 10:13 CET
Grack21 | August 05, 10:54 CET
[ edited by Barry Woodward on 2016-08-06 07:15 ]
Barry Woodward | August 05, 12:12 CET
But this makes me so mad, now I won't be able to recommend people to try the show on Netflix, the remaster is so terrible it makes the show look like amateur work. How can Fox get away with this?? It's almost criminal.
Joss, I beg you, please, try something, Buffy needs you!
[ edited by Liam12 on 2016-08-06 01:49 ]
Liam12 | August 05, 16:27 CET
kantgitrite101 | August 05, 23:04 CET
Off to social media I go.
goodtime | August 05, 23:10 CET
Same here.
Buffy season 1 is the darkest and murkiest. I adjusted the brightness, contrast and color temperature on my LCD/LED TV to bring out the best (IMO) of that season and found that everything else looks great that way, too.
Amrita | August 06, 09:52 CET
Dana5140 | August 06, 11:02 CET
So between this and the DVDs previous fuck ups, there is no pure version of Buffy available anywhere is there?
The DVDs already fucked up by not using the anamorphic wide screen version of buffy. Not including the previously on's which really messes with the flow of the opening to The Gift, cuts out a entire scene from Angel 2x20, cuts off seconds from the beginning of Angel 4x08 and probably other episodes I can't remember. Wait yeah, cutting the previously on kills the joke at the beginning of the episode where Merle dies.
Maybe in 20 years some fan can get a high profile job in Fox and get a restoration project started to fix Buffy and Angel.
[ edited by eddy on 2016-08-07 18:14 ]
eddy | August 07, 09:05 CET
Nico-Angel | August 07, 11:50 CET
Grack21 | August 07, 12:00 CET
eddy | August 07, 15:13 CET
Grack21 | August 07, 15:48 CET
Trentaferd | August 07, 19:33 CET
It never stops astounding me that there are some people out there who think the *most important thing* about any TV show is that it fills the screen. Distorted picture, bad filters, crew and equipment visible... doesn't matter as long as those black bars aren't there at the sides. Incredible.
AndrewCrossett | August 08, 05:17 CET