MikeToone
31-12-2001, 08:27
Apologies if this has already been posted, but as the search facility is disabled I could not be arsed to scroll through pages and pages.
WB feedback comment page. Let them know how you feel about the **** poor release of In the Beginning and Gathering and how we want the series on DVD now........
WB Feedback (http://www.warnerbros.com/pages/help/help_feedback.jsp)
And especially when this was posted on the Sci-Fi channel news page:-
"JMS Talks B5 DVD
Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski told SCI FI Wire that the new DVD edition of the landmark SF television series features the first B5 movies, "The Gathering" and "In the Beginning." But Straczynski said in an interview that the selection of which movies to bring out first "really wasn't my choice."
Straczynski added, "I think Warner [Brothers] to some degree wants to test the waters to determine if there was enough interest in the show to release it on DVD." Straczynski only approved the cover art. The rest was handled by Warner Home Video.
The irony, of course, is that Babylon 5 was tailor-made for DVD, Straczynski said. Well before the DVD revolution began, Straczynski and his production team anticipated a future where a 16:9 theatrical widescreen aspect ratio would be appreciated for television shows. "Except for the pilot," he said. "We always tried to be a forward-thinking show. We were the first show to be shooting in widescreen. When we did our post-production, we would do full-surround mixes with a very aggressive subwoofer."
Although nothing new was done to "In the Beginning," Straczynski was directly involved with producing the widescreen version. "In terms of the widescreen versions, I was involved in that by way of the SCI FI Channel. There was a version in widescreen that was released overseas in PAL format, and when they were going to do the laser disc, Warner said there are no versions in widescreen. The only reason they're putting it out in wide is that The SCI FI Channel wanted to broadcast it in wide. Warners didn't have to go through the process, with SCI FI underwriting it, of reassembling the masters in the original aspect ratio. The good part of that is that The SCI FI Channel was able to work through the bugs along the way."
WB feedback comment page. Let them know how you feel about the **** poor release of In the Beginning and Gathering and how we want the series on DVD now........
WB Feedback (http://www.warnerbros.com/pages/help/help_feedback.jsp)
And especially when this was posted on the Sci-Fi channel news page:-
"JMS Talks B5 DVD
Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski told SCI FI Wire that the new DVD edition of the landmark SF television series features the first B5 movies, "The Gathering" and "In the Beginning." But Straczynski said in an interview that the selection of which movies to bring out first "really wasn't my choice."
Straczynski added, "I think Warner [Brothers] to some degree wants to test the waters to determine if there was enough interest in the show to release it on DVD." Straczynski only approved the cover art. The rest was handled by Warner Home Video.
The irony, of course, is that Babylon 5 was tailor-made for DVD, Straczynski said. Well before the DVD revolution began, Straczynski and his production team anticipated a future where a 16:9 theatrical widescreen aspect ratio would be appreciated for television shows. "Except for the pilot," he said. "We always tried to be a forward-thinking show. We were the first show to be shooting in widescreen. When we did our post-production, we would do full-surround mixes with a very aggressive subwoofer."
Although nothing new was done to "In the Beginning," Straczynski was directly involved with producing the widescreen version. "In terms of the widescreen versions, I was involved in that by way of the SCI FI Channel. There was a version in widescreen that was released overseas in PAL format, and when they were going to do the laser disc, Warner said there are no versions in widescreen. The only reason they're putting it out in wide is that The SCI FI Channel wanted to broadcast it in wide. Warners didn't have to go through the process, with SCI FI underwriting it, of reassembling the masters in the original aspect ratio. The good part of that is that The SCI FI Channel was able to work through the bugs along the way."