All I watch now are 80s 90s movies. Even old serials like Outer Limits, Bonanza, Moonlighting etc amazing shows with incredible writing that all holds up the test of time. Honestly their is so much content from the 60-90s I could never watch any new movie/tv show ever again and be 100% content.
The problem lies all in how the show was filmed, and a major problem with a lot of 90s shows, is that none of it was shot on film (it was expensive and required large equipment lugged around everywhere), so with VHS emerging as an industry standard, and most people unaware of TVs being on the verge of entering HD capabilities, (mostly) everyone just recorded straight to VHS. For these shows, it's really not even possible to upconvert the quality and move it from 4:3 to 16:9, it can only be done with shows shot 100% on film (since they're far above even 4k and shot wide angle and cropped to 4:3 for our 90s viewing pleasure, so we can easily go back and pull their master films to edit to 16:9). This is why a ton of 80s and 90s shows are still 4:3, yet we're seeing movies as old as Lawrence of Arabia and Wizard of Oz getting 4K releases
When they converted Wizard of OZ to digital for Blu-ray they decided to save time & money and scanned it at 8k. So they wouldn't have to scan the original films again for many years.
Some 90s shows had quality PAL (704×576) editions so those were used to make the wide screen HD version and used for the blu-ray releases.
All I watch now are 80s 90s movies. Even old serials like Outer Limits, Bonanza, Moonlighting etc amazing shows with incredible writing that all holds up the test of time. Honestly their is so much content from the 60-90s I could never watch any new movie/tv show ever again and be 100% content.
More 90's shows should get the Seinfeld treatment. I like that they cropped the reruns to fit a 16x9 screen.
The problem lies all in how the show was filmed, and a major problem with a lot of 90s shows, is that none of it was shot on film (it was expensive and required large equipment lugged around everywhere), so with VHS emerging as an industry standard, and most people unaware of TVs being on the verge of entering HD capabilities, (mostly) everyone just recorded straight to VHS. For these shows, it's really not even possible to upconvert the quality and move it from 4:3 to 16:9, it can only be done with shows shot 100% on film (since they're far above even 4k and shot wide angle and cropped to 4:3 for our 90s viewing pleasure, so we can easily go back and pull their master films to edit to 16:9). This is why a ton of 80s and 90s shows are still 4:3, yet we're seeing movies as old as Lawrence of Arabia and Wizard of Oz getting 4K releases
When they converted Wizard of OZ to digital for Blu-ray they decided to save time & money and scanned it at 8k. So they wouldn't have to scan the original films again for many years.
Some 90s shows had quality PAL (704×576) editions so those were used to make the wide screen HD version and used for the blu-ray releases.