by canofhumdingers » Wed Oct 02, 2019 12:10 am
^people get really hung up on the cropping of images on home video but the truth is that, depending on how the projectionist matted the projector lens up (and if done properly, it *would* be matted), that amount of cropping on the Kraken discs would be quite normal in a theatrical presentation. Heck, if the media blasters had cropped the Megalon image of their Blu-ray just a tad you wouldn’t see all those ugly glue splices at every cut.
Also, Sorry I didn’t get the images lined up as well as I’d have liked (I did this on my phone), but I made a gif of a zoomed in bit of Ebirah showing the difference between the Toho sourced criterion video and the Kraken video. You be the judge.