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Frank Black will be on Blu-ray! (In X-Files)

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Guest Bad Boy Dazza

via his special appearance on The X-Files

A number of our industry sources are now telling us that Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is planning (and in fact may already be gearing up to) release their classic TV series The X-Files on Blu-ray. As fans will already be aware, the first four seasons of the show were produced in 4x3 format, like many TV programs of its era. The series then went to a 16x9 widescreen format for the remainder of its run, as anamorphic widescreen displays were starting to become common. The entire show was still broadcast in standard definition – not actual high-definition – and the visual effects and post-production were finished in SD. (Note that the first actual HD broadcast on Fox was for the 2004 NFL season, while X-Files ended its run in 2002.) Our sources say Fox has likely decided to “rebuild” the seasons in high-definition, in much the same way that CBS has done with Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Provided all the original camera negative has been properly stored and archived, it’ll presumably be an easier task as the show featured fewer and less elaborate visual effects.

This wouldn’t be the first time Fox has upgraded a show to Blu-ray: They did something roughly similar with Firefly on Blu-ray back in 2008, although to be fair all of the show’s visual effects were upconverted to HD rather than re-rendered in actual high-definition to save costs.

If all goes well, we’re told the first seasons of The X-Files could appear on BD sometime in late 2013. We’ll post additional updates as they come in. Stay tuned…

https://thedigitalbits.com/columns/the-rumor-mill/is-fox-bringing-x-files-to-blu-in-2013

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Guest Bad Boy Dazza

No probs,

older TV series are slowly starting to get Blu-ray releases, so maybe if we are lucky Milleniium will come out in the next few years.

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  • Elders (Admins)

Interesting, thanks! I finally bought the box set of The X-Files on DVD last year after I got into it watching reruns after so many years away. I would probably buy it on BluRay if I had a player in the future, for now though, I will stick to upscaled DVD's!

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I don't have a Bluray player either, and with hundreds of DVDs, not sure if I want to change formats again after kissing hundreds of VHS goodbye. I am content with what I have, especially since my only HD flat screen is the computer monitor. Maybe someday I will have it all. Until then, I do hope that all of you that do have Bluray are enjoying it for all of us.

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