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Originally Posted by tomos

Well it's interesting to see an actual professional opinion on this anyways. I confess, to be honest I do think that the average viewer at home doesn't care that massively if some of the more anorak-y people (no offence!) don't think that a picture should be ''distorted'' but I defer to your more informed opinion!

Right, so, this kind of discredits the entire profession of motion picture storytelling.

You may not notice it consciously -- in fact, if you do notice it, the director and cinematographer likely aren't doing a great job -- but shot composition dictates how you feel about what's going on in every single moment. Framing, color, and all other visual information in a shot effect the viewer on a psychological level. If you change the shot composition, you change the psychological impact of the storytelling. This isn't an "anorak" thing (whatever that means -- through context, I'm assuming you're referring to nerds or obsessives). It is something that impacts every single person watching every single movie or TV show that's ever been made, you just don't notice it unless you're educated in the craft.

Do you ever wonder why bad movies are bad? Or why great movies are great? It often comes down to the director and cinematographer's mastery of composition. I'd roughly estimate that a movie is 1/3 cinematography, 1/3 performance, and 1/3 sound production.

This isn't even just an opinion. It's scientific fact. If you're interested, you can find hundreds of YouTube videos on the subject... and dozens of books... and articles... I could go on.

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Originally Posted by rw1997

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Wasn't DBZ was drawn to fill a 4:3 frame? If so, that isn't nostalgia. I highly doubt any TV anime from that period was drawn with 16:9 composition in mind.

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Though Charmed and THe Wire are beg to differ.

I don't know anything about Charmed, but I'm pretty sure The Wire was composed for 16:9 and pan&scanned to 4:3 for its original SD TV broadcast. Some shows back then, especially on HBO, were shot in 16:9 to make it look more cinematic (and with a DVD release in mind).

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Gao-Magi were edited in SD. These shows are hard to remaster in HD, because they require re-doing the post production. Dekaranger and Kuuga's BD were upscales.

That's very true. The CGI shots were edited in SD video, and it would be impossible to improve their quality very much. They could rescan the film and make that non-CGI stuff look a lot better, but any shots with CGI will always look like crap on those shows.

Kuuga was shot in HD, I seem to recall, but I don't know much about the blu-ray release. I know there are HD masters out there somewhere. Toei reverted to shooting in SD with Agito up through, I wanna say, Hibiki?