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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Lucha

Also, please be assured, the 4:3 aspect ratio is not maintained out of nostalgia. I can't emphasize that enough. It's maintained because these shows were shot and composed with a 4:3 (square-ish) aspect ratio in mind, and if you change that to widescreen/16:9 (rectangular shape), you change the shape and composition of the frame -- and this results in the cropping out of important visual information (or, heaven forbid, the horizontal stretching of the original square image to fill a rectangular frame), which dramatically alters the creative intent of every single shot.

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Remastering 4:3 shows into 16:9 generally doesn't (and absolutely shouldn't) happen anymore. When you see an HD video with vertical black bars on the sides (called pillarboxing), just think of them the same way you would letterboxing. You're preserving the creators' original intent by not altering framing and composition of the image.

Though Charmed and THe Wire are beg to differ.

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Sentai was shot on 16mm film up through Go-Onger. They composed for 4:3 up through Magiranger, and started composing for 16:9/widescreen with Boukenger. With Shinkenger onward, they continued to compose for 16:9, but switched to shooting digital.

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.