What a poor name for a website. At first I thought you were linking me to a shock site. It's a good thing the site is genuine.

I noticed that the websites states that the script "is not intended to be used on footage for archival purposes". What do you make of that?

I still haven't sent a response to him yet. Since you mentioned retracing and other types of cleanup which I haven't considered, I decided to change the message. Can you guys tell me if there is anything else I should do before I send?

Hello Mr. Black.

Some of what you said in your email troubled me. First of all, what do you mean by stretching into 16:9? Did you really mean "stretch", or did you mean cropping to 16:9, or pillarboxing the 4:3 footage? Second, and more importantly, are you really going to just upscale the old footage instead of going straight to the 35mm source? If so, what exactly would you do with that footage? Would you just do minor cleanups, or would you use a program to retrace the drawings, or would you use something like what is available at http://www.l33tmeatwad.com/anime-upscale ? No, it's not a shock site, and it isn't my script. Assuming the best, you might get the footage to look a little better than the original SD transfer, but you wouldn't get any more real detail out of the footage. Only by going through the 35mm raw footage and creating a new 1080p or even 4k transfer from scratch would a Blu-Ray release be worth it.

Imagine that you have a blu-ray and a vhs of the same movie. Assume that both are the best that they can look and sound. Now imagine you digitize the vhs recording. You upscale the vhs. Note that no matter what you do, the vhs would never look as good as the movie's DVD, let along a high definition blu-ray. I also want you to consider the fact that some reviewers of recent Magic School Bus dvd sets state that they think the video and audio quality isn't that good to begin with, I don't think upscaling the show and putting those upscales on blu-ray would be wise.

Basically, if you can't make a new remaster from the raw footage, you shouldn't release the series on blu-ray. I'm not trying to be mean, and if I come off that way I apologize. I also understand that you might not have the money to make a new master, and there is nothing wrong with that, but if all you are going to do is upscale the footage or use scripts to make it look marginally better, releasing the series on blu-ray wouldn't be worth it. If someone wanted to, he or she could take the dvd footage and clean it up themselves. Only you guys have the raw 35mm footage, so if possible, I suggest that you make use of it.

*insert closing greeting here*

Regards,

*insert variation of my first name or my username here*

What do you think I should use for a closing greeting, or my name? Should I use Danny (My IRL nickname), Daniel (My real first name), Dan (what he referred to me as), or Danfun*** (that is, the variation of numbers that appears on my email address)?