25-12-2023, 02:21 PM
One thing about these HD remasters of old TV shows is that they often show up flaws in sets, costumes, makeup and effects as they were never intended to be seen at that sort of quality.
Though I often find that even watching old shows in SD, a lot of that still shows up, the smaller screens of the past and analogue interference and distortion would have helped hide things too.
I often see when they talk about these remasters talking about "higher quality film", though on many of these older shows you can argue at the time, the filmed inserts often looked a lot worse than the studio video material, there really were some dreadful film transfers in the 70s, 80s and early 90s. The fact they could do high quality transfers decades later wouldn't have even crossed the programme makers minds (and the film itself was often not kept anyway).
Though I often find that even watching old shows in SD, a lot of that still shows up, the smaller screens of the past and analogue interference and distortion would have helped hide things too.
I often see when they talk about these remasters talking about "higher quality film", though on many of these older shows you can argue at the time, the filmed inserts often looked a lot worse than the studio video material, there really were some dreadful film transfers in the 70s, 80s and early 90s. The fact they could do high quality transfers decades later wouldn't have even crossed the programme makers minds (and the film itself was often not kept anyway).