Lost in Space (Series) - Remastered in HD

[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.