Just comparing original episodes on Youtube vs the same episodes on Britbox and i'm just horrifed at how much they've butchered them! I wish shows would just get shown how they were originally made, it's such a shame.
Just comparing original episodes on Youtube vs the same episodes on Britbox and i'm just horrifed at how much they've butchered them! I wish shows would just get shown how they were originally made, it's such a shame.
The broadcaster gets complaints either way. They get complaints about the black bars you get on 4:3 material which would be pillar-boxed on the HD channel, and they get complaints if the archive material is cropped to hell and back. So what do you do?
Fortunately (outside of documentaries and what not) the BBC (and Channel 4 to an extent) seem happy to show 4:3 material properly so its not a complete butcherama out there. I don't know who has actually done the butchering for Mr Bean (ITV or the production company), but as they've got new endcaps and there wasn't the "Copyright Thames Television" on the end of the first episode tonight, probably safe to assume Tiger Aspect have done it.
Good point about the complaints. I wish people weren't so ignorant to tv of old and how it used to be filmed and displayed.
With ITV, its only in recent years they've shown films correctly as they'd usually show most cropped to 16:9 so doesn't really surprise me they'd show altered tv shows.
I guess if it was Tiger Aspect, they will just do what will sell best I suppose.
I wonder when was the last time ITV showed the original Mr Bean episodes on the main channel before tonight? They've shown the films and animated series plenty of times but the original series has mostly been repeated on ITV4.
Good point about the complaints. I wish people weren't so ignorant to tv of old and how it used to be filmed and displayed.
With ITV, its only in recent years they've shown films correctly as they'd usually show most cropped to 16:9 so doesn't really surprise me they'd show altered tv shows.
Films are slightly different as a lot of it depends on what prints they get sent as to what the broadcaster does with them (people complain about the black bars here too).
TV though was only ever made in a handful of formats: 4:3 and 16:9, and more recently 2:1. Sometimes the odd production would be in a wider format but that was the exception to the rule.
Just comparing original episodes on Youtube vs the same episodes on Britbox and i'm just horrifed at how much they've butchered them! I wish shows would just get shown how they were originally made, it's such a shame.
The broadcaster gets complaints either way. They get complaints about the black bars you get on 4:3 material which would be pillar-boxed on the HD channel, and they get complaints if the archive material is cropped to hell and back. So what do you do?
I’m not sure this is as true as it once was. I think by and large people are now accepting of the fact that old TV will have black bars on the side, and the alternative just makes it look worse, especially on the much larger screens available now. Even Sky One, who started showing the 16:9 remasters of The Simpsons, have started showing the 4:3 versions instead.
