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You arent seeing the big picture..Buffy DVDs are the #1 Sejjer WORLDWIDE
2009-05-26 - Buffy the Vampire slayer has sold more (SEA 1-7) SERIES WORLDWIDE THAN
ANY MOVIE OR SERIES IN HISTORY. How can you say why waste time (blu-ray) on a 6 yr ended series,,.. last year (2008) Worldwide The ENTIRE seies still sold over 2 million 39 DVD sets ( or 7-sep sea = 39 DVDs)..Except seasons One & two,[16mm] This was shot on 35 mm film...like in theaters..I Cant wait!!!
I'm sick of watching cropped and blurry dvd versions on my 52" HD TV.. THE BD-HD ver will sell I guarantee you at leat a million units in its first year, then more as more people get HDTVs & learn a Blu Ray ver is out [worldwide Buffy has sold over 100 Million entire seies, more than any single thing in history.][movie or series) no single movie comes close & certainly No TV series is remotely close to 100 million series sold worldwide...Did you know over 100 countries are At this writing showing Buffy on TV around the world?? Geez, u dont get it...the themes and metaphors are timeless, Buffy is the FIRST example of Great (classically) LITERATURE EVER SHOWN IN A VISUAL MEDIUM. If you dont get that, Why did you bother posting at all??

buffy on BD where are you?
2009-05-18 - All i have to say about a release of a BD version of Buffy is that it's taking too long. Not a day goes by that i wish that it could finally be released, no more of this waiting C#$P!I want it and i want it now!

Fix the Menus
2009-05-12 - I would totally rebuy the entire series if it came on Blu-Ray. But they need to fix the dated and annoying "CG" menus. Also some added extra's would always be nice, like a full BTVS/Angel history timeline (with individual timelines for each of the main characters, and showing where they crossover).

And to anyone asking for a WIDESCREEN version, this is impossible since the original footage used was 4:3 aspect ratio. To force a "widescreen" would mean you would be loosing part of the image. Joss Whedon spoke of this on one of the series dvd's (paper insert).

Wide-Screening Conversions Would Be Impossible! :)
2009-04-30 - Dudes! (And dude-ettes.)

Conversion of stuff filmed in "TV" screen format into a "wide-screen" format is impossible! Can't be done. Never has been done. Won't be done.

What *has* happened is certain cretins at certain greedy studios have decided to take advantage of customer ignorance by *pretending* to create "wide-screen" versions of TV shows by cutting off material from the top and (more often) from the bottom of the frame.

For example, check out what the studio did to the old movie "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance". All the actors were essentially cut off at the knees to make the DVD version *appear* to be wide-screen.

It's like tryong to convert a picture from your old high school yearbook into "wide-screen" -- you're going to have to use a pair of scissors.

That's the only way to do it, fans. By giving you *less* visual material than was in the original "TV" sized frame.

TV screen sized was the way BtVS was filmed. There is no material off to the sides of the frame that was cut off to fit the old-style TVs -- what the camera operator's viewfinder saw is what was filmed.

That being said, it would be nice to see a cleaned up high-def version of Buffy, even in its original TV aspect -- some of the currently released DVD's are awful damn fuzzy and some scenes are extremely grainy for some reason.

Maybe they could clean those up a bit?

Here's hoping so.

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Buffy News 28 April 2003

No widescreen for US DVDs

"Joss Whedon has vetoed the US DVD release of Buffy in widescreen format - because it's not the way the show was intended to be seen.

In a statement to the Digital Bits web site, Whedon explained his reasons why the Season Four DVD box set would be in regular 4:3 ratio:

"[The episodes] were not shot in a widescreen format... I want to see the whole screen, as framed by the director. The Buffy's I (and others) shot were framed for traditional TVs.

"Adding space to the sides simply for the sake of trying to look more cinematic would betray the very exact mise-en-scene I was trying to create. I am a purist, and this is the purest way to watch Buffy. I have resisted the effort to letterbox Buffy from the start and always will, because that is not the show we shot.

BBC2 and UK DVD Buffy viewers have been enjoying widescreen versions of episodes since the start of series four. This is because Fox supply international broadcasters with master tapes sourced from the original 70mm film stock the series is shot on."


NOT EVEN BLU RAY CAN MAKE THIS SHOW GOOD
2009-02-24 - why blu ray would waste its time on a show canceled twice and a disgrace to tv is beyond comprehension. blu ray may make the picture and sound better but cant help a show with abysmal acting and incredibly moronic plots