Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-07 (Friday)

On 2/8/2025 11:56 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 2/8/2025 2:46 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 2/8/2025 11:21 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

On National Fetticine Alfredo Day, I watched:
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Various YouTube videos.
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What did you watch?

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Hey, thanks for asking!
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The final episodes of THE PRACTICE, leaving me free to start watching
BOSTON LEGAL.
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SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON
1939 John Wayne cavalry classic that the critics say is the first movie he
actually started acting in. It has a running gag where somebody will try to
apologize and Wayne will stop them saying “never apologize, it’s a sign of
weakness“ so now we know where Gibbs got his rule number six.
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A couple mid third season BUFFY episodes when the series was still at its
peak.
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On disc or streaming?  How was the picture quality?
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Buffy on the Hulu. It’s 4:3 but the image quality is excellent. There are
also 16:9 versions of it. The originals of those were horrendous, but the
new ones look pretty good. Same notation for Angel.
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Good to know.  If this new series gets off the ground I'm going to want
to revisit the original.  But I don't think my DVDs are up to the job.
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 I just started season four (the college years) on the Hulu. These are now
16:9. And they look great. I haven’t had an opportunity to side-by-side
compare the current 4:3 versions of Buffy and angel with the current 16:9
versions From the same source (for instance I was watching 16:9 season
three Buffy on Comet broadcast and decided to switch over to Hulu to get
rid of commercials). And I’m watching on the iPad. But anything I’m seeing
right now should be up to the task.
 I don’t think I’ve ever seen the pilot for angel in 16:9…
 

The first season Angel DVDs are 1:33 before switching to anamorphic wide screen for the rest.  All the Buffy episodes are 1:33.  I'm assuming "Once More With Feeling" is nonanamorphic wide screen.
I watched the entire series of both Buffy and Angel back in 2011.  And I even figured out when to swap discs for the cross over episodes.  It was great.  But I haven't watched an episode in over a decade.  A new Buffy series would be a great excuse to watch some of the best episodes again.
I just need to know *when* so I can have enough time to plan for it.