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Originally Posted by Yukitora
^The widescreen versions of Seinfeld, on the other hand, are zoomed up in order to achieve the 16:9 frame, thus losing both information and sacrificing quality. Lets hope avex doesn't do that to ayu's PV. Btw, neither Seinfeld nor Friends has been released on blu-ray.
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My mistake, they have not been released on blu-ray but they HAVE been remastered into HD. These HD versions are in syndication all over the world for channels who have the right to show them. I have seen them myself (for both shows).
And I know, for at least Friends, the images are not zoomed or cropped. As I explained previously, the source of the footage is not a 4:3 video but a 35mm film. The film was then cropped to 4:3 as was the norm at the time. However, the source film is not 4:3, its actually widescreen like in motion pictures (where this film is used) with enough information to create a HD picture. So the film is re-scanned and remastered, using the wider aspect ratio available and thus making a 16:9 version.
I'm sure this is the same thing that Seinfeld did - look this up on google, there are pages on information on this topic and the shows HD versions.
The whole point is, this could have happened with many of Ayu's earlier clips. They have been filmed on a source where a HD and/or widescreen version could be created. They wouldn't be releasing a blu-ray unless they had something like this up their sleeve for the majority of her PVs.
If her 4:3 videos are just that - with no source to create a HD version - they will be left as is, for sure. No right minded studio or company would crop a 4:3 video to fit widescreen because you can do that yourself on a blu-ray player.