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The Great Tragedy of the 'Buffy' HD Remaster

Passion of the Nerd · 1.4M views · 2019-03-21 · 19:43

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Overview

A critique of the HD remaster of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, walking through cropping, color and effects problems that damaged the original look. It also advises which versions to buy.

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Used as the main example of bad HD restorations and aspect-ratio recropping of older TV shows.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2019–2024

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upon_drumhead · 2024-07 · Criticism

Not every HD redo is better. [VIDEO] And honestly a ton of why dvds look so terrible is people forgot about deinterlacing. Toggle it on and things look a lot better.

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echelon_musk · 2024-04 · Criticism

The automated HD 'remaster' of Buffy is the prime example of how badly this can go wrong. A great breakdown of the problems is on YouTube here: [VIDEO]

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BiteCode_dev · 2023-12 · Criticism

Agree. All those remastering are often done with more importance given to the economic side of things, instead of respecting the art. Some are destroying the original work. The first thing that pop into my mind is how they destroyed Buffy with the HD makeover: [VIDEO] As a reddit commenter said about the cropping job: "All they had to do was nothing and they still fucked it up." It's a disgrace.

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