Lost in Space (Series) - Remastered in HD

[crazyBLUE]

Originally Posted by RickWJ324

I second that!! A huge staple of my childhood.

I hope when we see the price tag we don't start yelling: Oh the pain, the pain!!

Dido ~ I was a big watcher of this as a child

[vidjunkie]

Originally Posted by crazyBLUE

Dido ~ I was a big watcher of this as a child

lol I guess a lot of us are showing are age

[crazyBLUE]

Originally Posted by vidjunkie

lol I guess a lot of us are showing are age

I was 4 when that first aired ~ I'd Almost bet I saw every episode whether it was broadcast or rerun at least one time ~ Gosh I'm old

[Thomas Guycott]

I'm in for the first season!

But only if OAR.

[*PREACHER*]

Made my day...awesome news!!!

[Mr.Dig]

Awesome news!
We need more Irwin Allen movies and series on blu-ray. Land of the Giants would be great!

[Walts Ghost]

This is great news! Never thought I'd see this land on blu. I'm actually really excited about this.

[#Darren]

Originally Posted by Thomas Guycott

I'm in for the first season!

But only if OAR.

Yes, OAR or the highway.

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by #Darren

Yes, OAR or the highway.

I admit the framing does look ideal for 4:3. They clearly filmed it with the intention of broadcasting it in 4:3. So everything is framed for that. Yet the sets are so cool, especially in the Jupiter 2, that it would be a real treat to see more of it. Those widescreens shots are gorgeous.

[RickWJ324]

Originally Posted by crazyBLUE

I was 4 when that first aired ~ I'd Almost bet I saw every episode whether it was broadcast or rerun at least one time ~ Gosh I'm old

I was born in '70 but vividly remember watching this show (and others like Adam West's Batman) when I was 3-4 years old. Never missed them!!

Bring both of these shows to blu asap!!

@Dex Robinson - Best of luck to you and your medical situation....I sincerely hope for the best for you.

Rick

[The Great Owl]

Ahhh....memories.

Lost in Space used to air on TBS Superstation on Sunday mornings during my childhood. When my brother and I finished getting dressed for church, we would watch this show while our parents finished getting ready. About five minutes before the end of the episode each week, our parents would turn the television off and we would leave for church. I never got to see how any of the episodes ended.

I've probably seen every single Lost in Space episode a dozen times over, but I honestly do not believe that I've ever seen the ending of one.

If this show comes out on Blu-ray, I might actually be able to watch these episodes in their entirety. I have this eerie suspicion, though, that I might hear a knock on the door of my home five minutes before the end of each episode, and that my parents will have driven an hour from their house to mine to invite me to church.

At any rate, this could be great news.

[Arkadin]

great news, but why would there be any debate about aspect ratio? they always want to pull this sh%%t.
put it out in 1.37:1 or don't release it at all.
simple as that.
imo even if it was filmed in 16:9 it shouldn't matter one bit because that's not the way it was exhibited. Now one could argue well they had no choice, and that's true. but the fact remains everyone watched it in 1:37:1 and that's the way it should be preserved on bd.
simple as that imo.
my 3 cents.

[Daredevil666]

Originally Posted by Arkadin

great news, but why would there be any debate about aspect ratio? they always want to pull this sh%%t.
put it out in 1.37:1 or don't release it at all.
simple as that.
imo even if it was filmed in 16:9 it shouldn't matter one bit because that's not the way it was exhibited. Now one could argue well they had no choice, and that's true. but the fact remains everyone watched it in 1:37:1 and that's the way it should be preserved on bd.
simple as that imo.
my 3 cents.

Not again, it wasn't exhibited it was shown cropped on TV (just like your old pan & scan vhs was). Let's say a movie was direct to VHS and was shown cropped, would you want it to stay that way forever?

THE 4/3 FORMAT HAS BEEN DEAD SINCE 1953 THE REAL FORMAT OF 99% TV SHOWS MADE SINCE, AND ESPECIALLY IN THE 60'S ON, IS WIDESCREEN.

If you like it the way it was, you can always find old tubes on ebay, and watch the inevitable, crappy, cropped versions they will put out to calm you so called "purists" who are actually pan & scan advocates.

[Blu-21]

I think you can mount arguments for both 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratio presentations. The show very well was shot in widescreen and was modified to fit on 4:3 TVs that was the norm at the time which the production crew had in mind, but now the uncovered left and right sides of the image which was also shot but never shown is now available which if shot in widescreen should have been visible. Regardless of which one is OAR, both are cropped to some extent.

[Dex Robinson]

Originally Posted by Blu-21

...The show very well was shot in widescreen and was modified to fit on 4:3 TVs ...

That's not only wrong. It's a completely bizarre statement.

[Hypnosifl]

Originally Posted by Dex Robinson

That's not a only wrong. It's a completely bizarre statement.

Didn't the film they used originally have widescreen proportions, given that the youtube video shows additional details on the sides? If so it doesn't seem bizarre at all...similarly, it would be perfectly reasonably to say of an open matte movie that it was shot in "academy ratio" proportions (1.37:1, very close to old 1.33:1 TV proportions) and then modified to fit on wider movie screens. In both cases, the "modification" is just the matting of parts of the originally filmed image. Of course, it's usually true that the shots are composed for the proportions they'll be matted and shown at--for example, Stanley Kubrick said "Although The Shining was shot with the full academy aperture, it was designed and composed entirely for the 1.85:1 ratio, and that is the only way it should be projected in the theatre"--so I do think it's better to present the originally-shown proportions on blu ray. But it still doesn't seem wrong to say something was "shot in" whatever aspect ratio the original film stock had.

[Dex Robinson]

Originally Posted by HDvision

THE 4/3 FORMAT HAS BEEN DEAD SINCE 1953 THE REAL FORMAT OF 99% TV SHOWS MADE SINCE, AND ESPECIALLY IN THE 60'S ON, IS WIDESCREEN.

That's absolutely wrong. It's complete nonsense.

I can't understand how anybody on a Blu-ray forum can be so completely lacking of knowledge on this subject.

[silverlakephil]

Looks like it was originally filmed in 1:78 and black bars added for 60s TVs.

[Jar Jar Stinks]

Originally Posted by silverlakephil

Looks like it was originally filmed in 1:78 and black bars added for 60s TVs.

You're joking, right? Go to the 5:32 mark of the YouTube video.

[rrpmpstck]

Absolutely fabulous!