Amazing. One of the greatest TV shows ever and some of the greatest TV acting performances ever (Andre Braugher as Frank Pembleton maybe THE best ever)
Look I don't care how stupid your streaming service is, I will subscribe to it for a least a little while in order to watch HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE SREET bsky.app/profile/dodg...
My main worry is that they will do something fucked up or goofy with the aspect ratio or remastering (it's never been released afaik in a format besides standard def 4:3 DVDs and I think it was shot on video so can't really be remastered in high-def...)
*chuckles ruefully in Babylon 5 Fan*
Thankfully it I'm pretty sure predates the era of digital compositing so I think the worst they can do is some sort of awful "AI upscale"?
smh so much 80s and early 90s network shows shot on video that will never be able to get proper source remasters (although I have seen good results with AI upscaling shows from DVD sources — better than the quickie remasters they do for streaming sometimes — though iirc they were shot on film)
i mean there's basically nothing to "remaster" if it was shot on video - the original footage isn't appreciably better quality than the broadcast masters and typically wouldn't have been archived. it is what it is and should be presented at the highest quality possible (which is standard def)
you could talk me into doing a 4k version that takes the standard def signal and adds in scanlines and pixel blending or something to emulate how it would appear on a CRT television as being the optimal solution
The issue here is that there simply isn't enough source data to revisit. If the masters are SD video, you just don't have enough signal to do anything. The best possible outcome here is some denoising and rebroadcast at ~NTSC dimensions.
shot on film but almost definitely a video-based post-production. You see tons of Moments Of Video on the DVDs. Probably a 90s Star Trek situation where they'd have to re-do the whole thing to make a proper HD copy (other than the Law and Order crossover, which I've seen in HD as part of L&O reruns)
It's somewhat disappointing to me that Disney did a lot of work (they claim) to be able to efficiently have both the original 4:3 and cropped 16:9 for "The Simpsons" on D+ and then never used it again for anything else afaik.
oh! i thought it was shot on video - but its now annoying to confirm stuff like this since imdb paywalls the technical details page for shows. that would be great if its super 16 (assuming the negatives still exist)
I saw that building in Fells with the plaque bragging about how it served as the precinct in Homicide, and now I'm EXTREMELY excited to see the show under the assumption that there's a pirate tiki cruise and seven simultaneous harbor ghost tours going on immediately outside.
"What you will be privileged to witness will not be an interrogation, but an act of salesmanship - as silver-tongued and thieving as ever moved used cars, Florida swampland, or Bibles. But what I am selling is a long prison term, to a client who has no genuine use for the product."
Braugher was a force of nature on that show.
The episode when he has to interrogate the rest of the team after Mahoney's death is just so perfectly done
I met the actor who played Mahoney, and he was the nicest guy.
As I was shaking his hand, I said, "I really hate you. I mean, I love your acting, I hate your character" and he genuinely laughed and thanked me.
