Kamen Rider (1971) HD broadcasting
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Aoi Kurenai
Mad Skillz
Rips sound feasible, it's not as if they can't be done from pay channels or anything like that. The only copies of the original series I've seen are really dated, so having some real HD quality rips would be amazing.
Yeah that's what I heard of, I'ma check that out.
Daikamonohashi
Member
Is it going to be in widescreen though? Boooooooooooooooo cropping. >:/
Igadevil
Mr. Kamen Rider
The original series is so awesome that the picture will magically extend itself on both sides when it goes to HD to keep the proper aspect ratio! Or not. I hope they don't botch it.
Rips would be great, since the Blu-Ray version probably won't be out for a while now and finding good rips of the DVDs are harder than frozen chocolate. But I'm excited about this! A bunch of the old Rider shows need digital clean-ups, since the DVDs were largely LD transfers and some still look like the same tired, washed-out prints that have been around for years. The original series got one of the better clean-up jobs, but there's still plenty of work they could do with it.
Too bad Toei channel is like 16 bucks a month in addition to the cost of Sky Perfect TV...
Rips would be great, since the Blu-Ray version probably won't be out for a while now and finding good rips of the DVDs are harder than frozen chocolate. But I'm excited about this! A bunch of the old Rider shows need digital clean-ups, since the DVDs were largely LD transfers and some still look like the same tired, washed-out prints that have been around for years. The original series got one of the better clean-up jobs, but there's still plenty of work they could do with it.
Too bad Toei channel is like 16 bucks a month in addition to the cost of Sky Perfect TV...
Chronotia Archzenom
Member
That is so sad.:disappoin Now with that and KRDK airing there, looks like 2009 is the best Toku year for Kamen Rider.
Toei Channel TV=Kamen Rider and Kamen Rider Dragon Knight
TV Asahi=Kamen Rider Decade (Before W aired) and now W.
Makes 4 Kamen Riders in one year.
WOW! PERFECT AWESOMENESS!!!:castlerock: :buttrock: :megarock:
XenonVincent777
School Days
Ive been always wanting to see the first kamen rider show. it would be nice if it was fansubbed one day although 98 episodes is a lot
ryuuseipro
New Member
If the HD version keeps the series' proper aspect ratio (1.33:1), there would be black bars on the sides.
The new HD transfers for Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again are shown this way. Toho's not that stupid. Let's hope Toei is not stupid, either.
Nickelodeon HD broadcasts their shows (mostly fullscreen) like this. Disney shows both proper fullscreen and HD shows. Cartoon Network, on the other hand, uses "forced HD," in which the sides of the fullscreen picture are stretched out to fit the HD picture. (Shows like the Total Drama series and perhaps Stoked were widescreen to begin with, but CN uses fullscreen transfers on their HD program, and you'd think they'd use HD transfers for those. Go figure.) The only CN show that's truly HD is Star Wars: Clone Wars. Grrrrr.
That's how Star Trek was Remastered Fullscreen with Black Bars on the sides. I'm sure when they Remaster Kamen Rider they will present it the way it was originally viewed. The one mistake i hope Toei doesn't do is overuse DNVR because that's what ruined the Star Trek Movies when they came out on Blu-Ray (at least that's what every Trekkie i know said) Made all the characters look like wax figures.
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