You know, for such a crazy popular show, you'd think there'd be a BluRay release or somethin. I can't even find anything beyond a crummy DVD rip of the classic shows online.Let's just face it already. The Simpsons sucks dick. Let's just stop talking about it.
uhh yeah uhh... "sneed"
The DVD rips are peak kino, blueray is a faggot tier media.
>>218201798I was waiting for a BR release too, and then someone told me why: they destroyed the masters. This isn't a one-off thing either, it was standard in American animation to transfer to videotape masters, and then you destroy the original 35mm film reels. TV animation was also mostly edited on tape rather than reels as well, to speed up time. Meaning if you got the reels you'd have to re-edit the episodes. This is why the 35mm film reels were considered afterthoughts that no one cared about. In Japan, it was standard to keep the 35mm or 16mm film masters of even crummy shows, which is why even obscure shit is getting bluray releases, but not one of the biggest shows on television. One exception to this is the DC Animated Universe, which had the foresight to save their film masters. This is one of the reasons why the Simpsons is going to culturally lose relevancy, since the current upscaled and cropped release is so ugly no one is gonna watch it. This whole generation of American animated television is going to functionally become "lost media" culturally as if it never existed. Kids are into anime and shit as well. I have not seen anyone under the age of 28 care about The Simpsons at all.
>>218201862DVD quality was all over the place. I am totally fine with 640x480, but they were more often than not just shitty video-tape transfers that got scanned, rather than going to the original film masters and scanning them. Compare Seinfeld DVD to the new version, or Fraisure. These were high budget tv shows shot on 35mm.Likewise, an assload of shows cheaped out and were shot on video tape, because who cares? It's just a tv show and they're gonna see it on a tiny CRT TV. So why spend more on film? Well these shows are mostly going to be forgotten as well. I think we need a name for this phenomenon. It's the video-tape master filter.
>>218201798This isnt the smurfs, it would have to be a YellowRay
>>218202051Back to tv shows. The Japanese-Italian production Sherlock Holmes on bluray.
>>218201991Cool post.
Frasier bluray. These old shows in HD look better than new shows.
>>218201991>BR releaseBaskin Roberts was rockleased in 2011.
>>218202072Wtf this looks comfy. Is it any good?
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