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Re:Netflix Originals: Production and Post-Production Require... by JohnTHaller on Thursday June 22, 2017 @12:20PM (#14613306)
Both ST:TNG and B5 took their original source material and brought it down to SD and added the visual effects in at that level. So, we still had higher resolution original source material, but it had no effects in it. And these shows have a LOT of effects. When it came time to release ST:TNG on Blu-Ray, they had to recreate the effects and apply them back to the original material, which was a large and costly undertaking. Since it didn't make enough money, they have no plans to do this things like ST:DS9, unfortunately.
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Re:Netflix Originals: Production and Post-Production Require... by cpeterso on Thursday June 22, 2017 @04:39PM (#14615166)
Wikipedia has more details about Babylon 5's transfer issues. They shot the show on Super 35mm film so they would have a widescreen source, which they telecined down to 4:3 for broadcasting. But when the show was remastered for widescreen in the 2000s, the production company did not return to the original widescreen film. They converted a 4:3 PAL copy to NTSC and then upscaled that to widescreen!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_5#Mastering_problems

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Re:Netflix Originals: Production and Post-Production Require... by givinguflac on Thursday June 22, 2017 @07:34PM (#14616096)
That conversion path hurts to even read :(.
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