Babylon 5 update!

The reviews are saying the iTunes version is widescreen and “terrible”. Granted the reviews are from 1 and 2 years ago, so maybe it changed.

Edit:

Looks like it did as it says “remastered” in Apple TV, though that’s from the individual episodes, not the “complete series”.


Amazon apparently also got the remaster.

 

I had the iTunes digital versions before and confirmed I have the Remastered version now. It also looks pretty good!

 

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Streaming only? The DVD's are always available and never disappear from the earth.

 

I have the DVDs, but they're not the greatest quality (the episodes were supposed to be shot so they would work either as 4:3 or 16:9, but many of the directors ignored that, resulting in non-optimal framings when shown 16:9; plus the FX were only done in the 4:3 frame, so the 16:9 is just a cropped version of the 4:3 for scenes with FX shots)...I would pay a reasonable price for a blu-ray set of the restored 4:3 version.

 

No, I totally understand. But these are on iTunes only, if they were on DVD or Blu-ray it would be much better. Being on iTunes they can be taken down at a moment's notice.

 

It it was Vudu, I would get them.

 

Huh, thought Babylon 5 was available for free with Prime on amazon, but guess not. I'd be kinda curious to see how they look, but not really worth shelling out the money for it given that I already have the dvd's. I doubt we'll ever see a reasonable release on media - HD is really out just because they don't have the elements necessary to do it, and I doubt there's enough market to do an SD release. I'm really surprised anything was done for teh streaming ones, and kinda curious where they got the sources to remaster what they did.

 

Then again, that's what they said about Blade Runner for years (decades). And it was true.

Until it wasn't.

 

Someone needs to do some of that AI powered up sampling to 1080p

 

I can almost guarantee that something cool will be re-released soon. I just recently watched all the B5 + Crusade + movie episodes. Too soon to watch again. But I won't wait 20 years to watch again next time.

 

Looks like B5 is coming to HBO Max late January!

HBO Max January 2021 Offerings: "Mad Max," "Babylon 5," and MUCH More

 

WOW!!!

 

I wonder if it will be the remastered version that this thread was about, or just one of the old versions that have been around for ages (since the third age of mankind).

 

I'm not sure. I'd had planned to buy Babylon 5 one more time on Blu-ray if it ever came out with better quality. I have the DVDs. I've rewatched the series 3 or 4 times over the years.

 

We bought the original TiVo Series 1 just to watch Babylon 5. (In mediocre SD..)