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In any case, Seinfeld on Blu-ray? Sign me up. I expect they'll be coming out when we get past any lingering replication constraints.]]>Sep 4th 2008 8:09PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/03/seinfeld-goes-hd-on-tbs-hd/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/03/seinfeld-goes-hd-on-tbs-hd/Sep 3rd 2008 11:38PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/03/seinfeld-goes-hd-on-tbs-hd/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/03/seinfeld-goes-hd-on-tbs-hd/Sep 4th 2008 1:06AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/03/seinfeld-goes-hd-on-tbs-hd/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/03/seinfeld-goes-hd-on-tbs-hd/
The only picture i could find to explain is this Super 35 diagram:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_35
Note the red and green frame outlines.]]>Sep 4th 2008 2:09AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/03/seinfeld-goes-hd-on-tbs-hd/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/03/seinfeld-goes-hd-on-tbs-hd/http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Makeup/4303/vertical35mm.html

I don't know if sitcoms shoot Super 35, but it's the gist of the frame cropping idea.]]>Sep 4th 2008 2:28AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/03/seinfeld-goes-hd-on-tbs-hd/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/03/seinfeld-goes-hd-on-tbs-hd/http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Makeup/4303/vertical35mm.html

I don't know if sitcoms shoot Super 35, but it's the gist of the frame cropping idea.]]>Sep 4th 2008 2:27AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/03/seinfeld-goes-hd-on-tbs-hd/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/03/seinfeld-goes-hd-on-tbs-hd/Sep 4th 2008 8:51AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/03/seinfeld-goes-hd-on-tbs-hd/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/03/seinfeld-goes-hd-on-tbs-hd/Sep 4th 2008 10:32AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/03/seinfeld-goes-hd-on-tbs-hd/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/03/seinfeld-goes-hd-on-tbs-hd/Sep 7th 2008 12:25AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/03/seinfeld-goes-hd-on-tbs-hd/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/03/seinfeld-goes-hd-on-tbs-hd/Sep 4th 2008 5:58PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/03/seinfeld-goes-hd-on-tbs-hd/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/03/seinfeld-goes-hd-on-tbs-hd/
We're lucky that seinfeld was shot on film. If it was shot on video, like most comedies were at that time, it could never have been scanned in at high def.

Shows like Married With Children will never be released in high def because it was shot on video.]]>Sep 5th 2008 12:10AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/03/seinfeld-goes-hd-on-tbs-hd/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/03/seinfeld-goes-hd-on-tbs-hd/
Anyone comment on how the show looked, aside from the aspect ratio stuff.

Was it nice and sharp? ]]>Sep 5th 2008 10:25AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/03/seinfeld-goes-hd-on-tbs-hd/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/03/seinfeld-goes-hd-on-tbs-hd/
Or I suppose they could've edited the original shows on film first, then converted them to video, so the film cuts could also be converted to HD video. But that seems unlikely.]]>Sep 12th 2008 7:18PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/03/seinfeld-goes-hd-on-tbs-hd/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/03/seinfeld-goes-hd-on-tbs-hd/I just discovered this 30 minutes ago while watching. I couldn't believe my eyes.

To answer your question, yes, they went back and rescanned the film which the episodes were captured on in HD.

Thank god I held off on buying the collection on DVD, I knew this would happen sooner or later.]]>Sep 24th 2008 5:36PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/03/seinfeld-goes-hd-on-tbs-hd/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/09/03/seinfeld-goes-hd-on-tbs-hd/
the dvds are simply downconverted 480p from the high def transfers]]>Sep 15th 2008 3:29PM