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Just out of curiosity is it possible to get the film prints for Buffy and angel?
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Just out of curiosity is it possible to get the film prints for Buffy and angel?
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Anything is possible in our wildest dreams when you wish upon a star!
but no
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no lol
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That would be awesome!
But I think such things exist in quantities of zero and the OCN, without effects, would be obviously exist in a quantity of one and be in a studio vault.
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Now if you were talking about the movie, that actually would be plausible if a print still existed
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There was never any release prints for them. Best we could do is get a hold of a broadcast tape, and even then the quality would probably be on par with the DVDs.
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Just thought I ask didn’t think this question through because even if they were out there the effects would have to be updated and that would be taxing work. so Buffy is doomed to be stuck with that awful hd remaster because Disney hates buffy fans and fans of the fox catalog as a whole. It also doesn’t help that joss whedon isn’t in the greatest light now. 😦
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I think it is like the Star Trek situation they want to spend money on new shows instead of remastering old ones. Probably put their money into a Buffy remake.
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Chances were already slim back when Joss was a golden boy. This is, sadly, “just” a TV series. For whatever reason, even under the best of circumstances, studios treat TV series as nostalgic time capsules for limited sets of fans, never like the “timeless classics for generations” treatment that full-length films get. And Buffy isn’t in the best of circumstances. Fox, and now Disney, was rarely one to give any TV series the full “Freaks and Geeks” treatment in the first place. They have a huge TV catalog, and the very limited amount of HD restorations prove the rule (X-Files, Simpsons, can you even name a third?). It was honestly never in the cards. Fox deciding to cheap out with a fully automated scan (the only way to explain their seemingly random cropping decisions IMO) is probably the MOST effort they were willing to put into it, not the least amount. Yes, I’m talking about the widely-panned and objectively crap HD remaster.
Because I’m such a fan, I can always talk myself into scenarios: So many talented people were involved in Buffy, they’re not all untouchable, right? And even then, they still release Roman Polanski films, right? And HD releases of TV series do seem to be entirely random, so Buffy could just luck out, right? Or Shout Factory or some third party could swoop in and save Buffy, right? With so many possibilities, it seems like it really could happen, right?
But… hold onto your DVDs. For the long haul.
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They have a huge TV catalog, and the very limited amount of HD restorations prove the rule (X-Files, Simpsons, can you even name a third?).
A 16:9 restoration so successful that the unrestored 4:3 versions had to be added due to fan outcry.
But… hold onto your DVDs. For the long haul.
Exactly - those commentaries and special features aren’t getting ported to streaming services, while also being subject to the current whims of the production team. Take James L. Brooks’ decision to delist “Stark Raving Dad,” for instance.
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Disney did the MASH HD remasters.
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Forgot to include one bit of coping that I’d dreamed up, because it’s already been thoroughly dashed. I too was thinking about a Buffy revival, some sort of reboot or franchise-ification™ of the property. Not because I was excited about what they’d do with the Buffyverse (meh), but because it would improve the odds of a studio cash-in on the originals.
The thinking was Veronica Mars. That has got the be the g****mned easiest show on Earth for such a cash-in. It’s already available in HD, so just have an intern mock up some disc art, press some discs and bam. Minimal effort going in, and it’s like printing money at that point. And then something actually happened, they made the movie! That was the surest, easiest, product tie-in possible… except they didn’t. The movie came, the movie went, and you’re still stuck with DVDs for the series. And Buffy is a considerably harder property to do an HD remaster for than that.
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Just thought I ask didn’t think this question through because even if they were out there the effects would have to be updated and that would be taxing work. so Buffy is doomed to be stuck with that awful hd remaster because Disney hates buffy fans and fans of the fox catalog as a whole. It also doesn’t help that joss whedon isn’t in the greatest light now. 😦
Hulu and other services use the masters for the international DVDs, meaning seasons 1-3 are in 4x3 and seasons 4-7 are in widescreen but just simply expand on the sides, they also don’t have DNR issues and all of the color filters are intact
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Forgot to include one bit of coping that I’d dreamed up, because it’s already been thoroughly dashed. I too was thinking about a Buffy revival, some sort of reboot or franchise-ification™ of the property. Not because I was excited about what they’d do with the Buffyverse (meh), but because it would improve the odds of a studio cash-in on the originals.
The thinking was Veronica Mars. That has got the be the g****mned easiest show on Earth for such a cash-in. It’s already available in HD, so just have an intern mock up some disc art, press some discs and bam. Minimal effort going in, and it’s like printing money at that point. And then something actually happened, they made the movie! That was the surest, easiest, product tie-in possible… except they didn’t. The movie came, the movie went, and you’re still stuck with DVDs for the series. And Buffy is a considerably harder property to do an HD remaster for than that.
Yeah that was a shame. I know some of those involved with the show wanted it done too and also hoped that that time might make it ripe, but those with the power at the time at WB were just simply not interested at all and fed similar kind of nonsense reasons even to those deeply involved in the show itself. Now I do believe there has been some good deal of turn over at WB, so who knows now… but back at the time you mentioned, those with the power were almost bizarrely not into putting it out in HD.