Films (Almost Entirely Surround)

[4-earredwonder]

Interestingly the (standard) Blu Ray set announced alongside this *is* stretched out to 16:9, but the 4K has the original.

Seinfeld was originally shot on 35mm film with Panaflex cameras ... so there was room to expand it to widescreen. It was originally broadcast in 1.33:1 but why they are lavishing the widescreen on the Blu ray edition and not the 4K is somewhat of a mystery!

At least SONY is including both editions in their upcoming box set!

 

[pat bateman]

Seinfeld was originally shot on 35mm film with Panaflex cameras ... so there was room to expand it to widescreen. It was originally broadcast in 1.33:1 but why they are lavishing the widescreen on the Blu ray edition and not the 4K is somewhat of a mystery!

At least SONY is including both editions in their upcoming box set!

I'm not sure if was an exaggerated problem and someone just picked a one-off example, but a lot of people seem to prefer the 4:3 version because of things like this - https://x.com/Thatoneguy64/status/1443961536079450117

 

[JediJoker]

Seinfeld was originally shot on 35mm film with Panaflex cameras ... so there was room to expand it to widescreen.

It was shot and framed for 4:3. If there's extra left/right information in an open matte, it's not meant to be seen. The 16:9 presentation on Blu-ray and streaming was created by cropping the top and bottom off of the original framing.