17-04-2024, 10:07 PM
The Thin Blue Line is the same- made by the same production company, so clearly something Tiger Aspect feel the need to do for some reason...
I'm not sure about Bean on ITV2, but the Thin Blue Line ones on Gold are actually tagged as being "HD", even though obviously as being video, not only could it never be HD, but you're throwing away a quarter of the SD resolution as well with the cropping. Admittedly the recreated end credits are HD, but that barely counts. If there's one plus, at least it's not filmised, which happens far too often with HD "conversions" of SD material (look at the current circulating versions of The Fresh Prince, which are dire)... but that's a very minor plus.
I'm not sure about Bean on ITV2, but the Thin Blue Line ones on Gold are actually tagged as being "HD", even though obviously as being video, not only could it never be HD, but you're throwing away a quarter of the SD resolution as well with the cropping. Admittedly the recreated end credits are HD, but that barely counts. If there's one plus, at least it's not filmised, which happens far too often with HD "conversions" of SD material (look at the current circulating versions of The Fresh Prince, which are dire)... but that's a very minor plus.