Remember when TVs weren't widescreen? Maybe these shows should have stayed in 4:3... tvaziri
is the original poster, who summarises the issue in the above tweet, which clearly shows a peculiar empty window frame to the right of Joey."Shows like Friends, M*A*S*H and Seinfeld were shot on film and presented on TV in 4:3 aspect ratio," he explains."For streaming, unused portions of the film negative are used to create a 16:9 widescreen image – if the reframe is sloppy, the audience sees more than was intended.
Vaziri also points out that it is actually more work to edit the footage this way, when pillarboxing would preserve the original shooting intention. But, Vaziri says, streamers claim the audience would be"confused" by the black banding on the sides of shots. How"Seinfeld" s08e16 'The Pothole' looked as originally broadcast vs. today on Netflix. pic.twitter.com/An6DbzNfrIThe above tweets show how Seinfeld and M*A*S*H have been affected by this"sloppy" editing. As Vaziri points out, the top and bottom are trimmed, but the edges are widened to include parts of the set that were never meant to be in shot.
The Simpsons landed on Disney Plus a few years ago, and was put through the same ringer. But, as animation doesn't have the same 'set' to widen out, the crop has other implications for what was shown on screen. The below image shows, side-by-side, how the cropping can impact the overall image – and this one totally kills the joke. See the problem? Cropping the image has removed the top part of the frame, and has removed the punchline. I'd take some black banding over that.
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