[B5JMS] from jms: a few quick items

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From: Herranen Henrik <leopold at assari.cc.tut.fi>
Date: 15 Feb 2001 15:22:40 -0700
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jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5) writes:
> And finally...yes, it's true, B5 will be coming out on DVD starting with The
> Gathering and In the Beginning, to be released in July.  The series will start
> soon thereafter.  I've been going over the artwork and related issues for WB
> Home Video, and though at this time there's no supplementary material involved,
> at least as far as I know, it should be pretty cool.  (Don't know yet which
> aspect ratio they'll be using, but my *guess* would be widescreen, now that WB
> is correcting the earlier versions.)

I hope this information is at least partly wrong. If it is not,
then I will not buy the DVD, and instead be happy to already own
The Gathering Special Edition on Laserdisc in its correct 4:3
full-screen format.

And before anyone flames me: The Gathering was shot in 4:3 as
opposed to the rest of the series. Thus, a "widescreen" version
would have to either be a cropped or vertically panned & scanned
version, and this would be far from the show's correct aspect
ratio. There has never been any indication that The Gathering
was meant to be soft-matted to 16:9. The use of vertical screen
area as well as JMS's own words indicate that the show was always
intended to be 4:3.

Hope _this time_ things can be cleared _before_ they go wrong.

Regards,
	- Henrik

--
Hoh hoijaa taas kerran.


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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 15 Feb 2001 16:31:04 -0700
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>And before anyone flames me: The Gathering was shot in 4:3 as
>opposed to the rest of the series. Thus, a "widescreen" version
>would have to either be a cropped or vertically panned & scanned
>version, and this would be far from the show's correct aspect
>ratio. 

No, the DVD of the Gathering would not be in fake wide, it'd be in the original
aspect ratio.  As I noted earlier, the way SFC aired it was an error.


 jms

(jmsatb5 at aol.com)
(all message content (c) 2001 by synthetic worlds, ltd., 
permission to reprint specifically denied to SFX Magazine 
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