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I'll believe it when I see it.

You know it's Chaiyo because of how off-model that merchandise looks. Still waiting for details on the Ultraman Forever webpage that hasn't been updated since 2013.

Some more info on the event.

Gomola "fell" to Earth??
I guess that's the difference between Gomola and Gomora, one is from Earth and one is from space.

Won't believe it till I see product on the shelves. This guy has been talking about this for YEARS. Sigh

Glad I didn't buy Ultraseven yet then.

Chaiyo... they can't be a real company. They're a front for money laundering, right?

As this is Chaiyo behind these blu-ray releases and they do not have any access to Tsuburaya's resources; I would expect that these blus will probably be upscales?

Or now that I look around, Tsuburaya released Ultraman onto blu-ray a couple years ago. Didn't Chaiyo use rips from a Tsuburaya DVD release for their Ultraman "masters", I suppose we could expect similar actions for these Chaiyo blu-rays if Chaiyo isn't using simple upscales.

Was Ultraman recorded on film?

It was still pretty common for shows in the 60's to be shot on 16mm or 35mm film. Video tape was still pretty new, expensive, and poor quality at the time. Lucky for us though b/c it's how were able to get all these awesome BD releases of classic shows like Star Trek, Batman, Lost in Space, etc! Too bad this particular set is gonna be from Chaiyo...

Heck, even a lot of much newer shows like X-Files and ST:TNG were shot on 35mm (I think...)

Yeah I actually just re watched a season 2 xfiles episode on Netflix the other day and was surprised to see it was in widescreen HD. I did a bit more research based on that experience and this conversation. What I've found is that the show was always shot framed with a widescreen picture but intended to be matted to 4x3 for regular tv at the time. However it was scanned and edited on video and many of the fx shots or composites (or some of the aerial shots from airplanes or helicopters in the episode I watched for example) were either shot or finished on video and in a 4x3 ratio.

The end result is that most of the show looks awesome in and open-matte HD picture that fills modern widescreen tv, but the shots I mentioned such as a composite close up of a tv screen will take a drastic nose dive in picture quality and will also be cropped vertically in order to fill the screen. It's a bit of a mixed bag but overall a reasonable compromise I felt. And fortunately it only affects early seasons. Later seasons were framed, finished, and aired in widescreen from the get go. So while some shots like composites might still take a nose dive in PQ if they were finished on video, the aspect ratio issues won't exist.

What was this thread about again?

So I guess this didn't happen. Any updates on the ongoing Tsubaraya/Chaiyo legal fight?