Stargate SG-1 1x08 The Nox

“The very young do not always do what they are told.”

Get used to hearing that one, guys.

“And they’re right. I think I see a flaw in your plan.”

And Jack was the one who picked up on the technobabble? Didn’t think about that before.

“You will learn that you’re way is not the only way.”

Then, he disappears. Thanks for waiting for my retort.

Did you think he just had that telescope to spy on the neighbors? :rolleyes:

“Fool, I will kill you.”
“Again?”

Well, it was simple enough for him to understand.

Laputa!!!

No, that’s not Spanish.

Now that shot was pretty close to iconic. The gate with the floating city behind it.

Night all. I have to get up early.

Me too. G’night! :slight_smile:

Random question: Hulu and my DVD set both present this series in widescreen, but there was no HD (in the US) when this series first aired. So, are they cropping the 4:3 picture?

SG-1 was filmed in 16:9. It was broadcast in 4:3 in the early seasons.

Same thing occurred with Babylon 5.

Really? Strange. Thanks.

Actually, the effects were made/filmed in 16:9, but the live action was filmed in 4:3. Mastering the DVD sets were a pain for them because they had to crop all of the live action to 16:9. At least, iirc.

Looks like I was sb backwards. But, at least I was on the right track.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_5#Mastering_problems

"Mastering problems

The transfer of Babylon 5 from fullscreen to widescreen (originally for the Sci Fi Channel; later released on DVD) created significant problems with regard to special-effects/CGI footage. Several factors complicated the process.

Although originally broadcast in the standard television aspect ratio of 4:3, all live-action footage was filmed on Super 35 mm film (with a ratio of 1.65:1). The idea was that, once widescreen televisions (with an aspect ratio of 16:9 or 1.78:1) became more popular, the episodes could be easily converted into a widescreen format.

CGI shots were rendered in the 4:3 ratio, but designed so that the top and bottom of each shot could be removed to create a widescreen image without ruining the image composition. For the widescreen DVD releases technical problems occurred during the progressive scan transfer and re-formatting, introducing artifacts that resulted in a picture quality of the CGI shots now inferior to the few laserdisc and other 4:3 home video releases.

While the camera negatives of the original live-action shots held the potential for high-definition digital images, the CGI shots and shots combining live-action with CGI, were stored in the much lower-definition NTSC digital format. (Again, the expectation was that it would be relatively cheap in the future to recreate the CGI in widescreen.)

Over the years, the original computer-generated models, and so on, have been lost, making it necessary to use the old 4:3 CGI shots. Both Foundation Imaging and its successor, Netter Digital, have gone out of business.

This has resulted in several consistent flaws throughout the Babylon 5 widescreen release. In particular, quality drops significantly whenever a scene cuts from purely live-action to a shot combining live-action and CGI. This is particularly noticeable on the PAL DVDs, since CGI shots had to be converted from NTSC, as well as being blown up to fit a widescreen television. In addition, while the live-action film was originally widescreen, shots were composed for 4:3, resulting in a conspicuous tendency for actors to clump up in the middle of the screen."