Dan Neely wrote:
> Below/interspersed
> 
> aklendathu  typed:
>> Are there any plans to release the Babylon 5 TV episodes and Movies
>> (including TLT) in High-Definition ?
>> The TV shows probably would need extensive FX reworking but maybe not
>> so the more recent movies...
> 
> The original FX are totally gone.  They only rendered TV grade at the time 
> since just that much maxed out the rendering farm, with the intent of 
> rendering in higher quality if needed in the future with much faster 
> machines.  So far, so good.  Unfortunately once the series was over the 
> studio demanded that every copy of the material used to generate the SFX was 
> handed over to them.  WB then promptly lost it.  DOH!
> 
> Under those circumstances the odds of new HD quality SFX being produced from 
> scratch is if not quite zero, then so infintesimally small as to be smaller 
> than the Londo/Gkar ticket's chance of winning in this novembers presidental 
> election.

Not strictly. They /could/ be redone from scratch -- even the mixed 
scenes,  if the greenscreen elements are still available. After all, 
"Star Trek" TOS just did that, and, more to the point, it was done for 
the Producer's Cut of "The Gathering".


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