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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Lucha

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.

Yeah, it was. But it was cropped to 16:9 to look "modern". It's the same problem as The Simpsons you mentioned.

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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).

Yeah, it was composed for 16:9. With the crew and cameramen painted out digitally.

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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.

It's possible to put improved CGI in these shots. Star Trek: The Next Generation did that, while having 140 or so episodes to boot. Heck, they re-created Flagel for the Magiranger Tribute in Gokaiger, since that show was shot in HD.

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Kuuga was shot in HD, I seem to recall, but I don't know much about the blu-ray release.

It's just an upscale.

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I know there are HD masters out there somewhere.

Where ? Where is it ?

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Toei reverted to shooting in SD with Agito up through, I wanna say, Hibiki?

Agito-Blade. Hibiki was the first show to be shot in HD, without being edited in SD.