bitbydeath
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The Simpsons Original Aspect Ratio (4:3) coming to Disney+ May 28
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JareBear: Remastered
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Disney+ will be available starting November 12 for $6.99 a month
Is Netflix dead yet? I got Disney+. Time to finally watch Star Wars.
Took them long enough, but glad it’s being fixed
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Slings and Arrows
Banned
Why? This isn't a well shot masterpiece, it's the simpsons.
Big screen, 16:9 stretch no black bars. Come at me
Big screen, 16:9 stretch no black bars. Come at me
Bad cropping and shitty DNR on a cartoon still isn't ideal.Why? This isn't a well shot masterpiece, it's the simpsons.
Big screen, 16:9 stretch no black bars. Come at me
Slings and Arrows
Banned
I watched the simpsons in 4:3 and shitty 480p on 27" CRT back when it originally aired. Now I get to watch it again, in 1080p with 65" to gawk and laugh at. It's funnier
Why would I sacrifice that? I mean, each to their own of course, I'm not having a go, just wondering
ManaByte
Member
Why? This isn't a well shot masterpiece, it's the simpsons.
Big screen, 16:9 stretch no black bars. Come at me
Because the 16:9 cropping ruins certain gags when the top of the screen is removed.
Nymphae
Banned
Why? This isn't a well shot masterpiece, it's the simpsons.
Big screen, 16:9 stretch no black bars. Come at me
What a ridiculous take. It's not about the cinematography, it's about stretching an image which always looks like shit.
ManaByte
Member
They don't stretch it. They crop it and zoom in.
Doom85
Member
That's cool. I don't have Disney+ yet myself, and I heard some of the Disney Afternoon cartoon series had this same issue, can anyone confirm or deny this? If they do, hopefully they get fixed as well, though I wouldn't be surprised to know they're nowhere near as big a priority compared to The Simpsons. Also, I have The Simpsons Seasons 1-10 on DVD, so I'm curious if the Disney + version did a resolution upscale or anything that offers a visual improvement.
ManaByte
Member
No the Disney Afternoon shows are all in 4:3 SD.
Nymphae
Banned
Almost as bad tbh, particularly when I've had access to the original versions for decades, how were they not able to utilize the correct format for their shitty service.
J-Roderton
Member
Excellent news.
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Stretching looks like shit, cropping anything out of the original image is just as bad, if not worse. Hail the original aspect ratio. Good on Disney? I’ll...get used to that maybe
SentientStone
Member
Nice, time to finally take off my goggles.
Doom85
Member
bitbydeath
Member
During season 20.
Airola
Member
It's funny how people wanted to force 16:9 movies into 4:3 versions so that movies were even released in both versions separately. They accepted cropping the screen to get to watch them in 4:3.
Now people want 4:3 originals to be 16:9 and they accept cropping and stretching to get them in 16:9.
Now people want 4:3 originals to be 16:9 and they accept cropping and stretching to get them in 16:9.
June
Member
It's because goobers just want the image to fill their screen and 20 years ago everyone had 4:3 tvs and now everyone has 16:9
It's still the same retards using the same logic
Kagey K
Banned
Season 20 episode 10.
MacReady13
Member
While they are at fixing the aspect ratio, any chance they can add back in the Michael Jackson episode? We just all about erasing history now are we?
sol_bad
Member
Off topic but I'm pretty sure The Wires 16:9 presentation is not cropped as it was shot on film.
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There is some cropping but I think the widescreen format works.
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NeoIkaruGAF
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That’s odd? The Simpsons are already available on D+ in Italy...
June
Member
Yeah, The Wire HD image was messed with through cropping and zooming and whatnot.
But even if it wasn't, the show was framed with 4:3 in mind - that's the important part. Doing anything else is messing with the way the image was originally intended to be presented.
I just hate that they went through all the effort to crop and zoom to make all the individual scenes in the 70hours show look as best they could for the 16:9, rather then just... not doing any of that and leaving it at 4:3. All so some chumps wont be put off by 4:3
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Master Of Illusion
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Kinda the same story with The X Files and The Sopranos. Initially cropped for a 4:3 presentation, but I prefer the compositional framing of the 16:9.
never knew about that.
MacReady13
Member
Seems like that dubious doco on wacko jacko got Disney trying to erase MJ from history. His episode is a classic and erasing it is pathetic.