I've managed to get hold of the complete series of Inspector Morse and we've been watching them happily for the past few days. There's something about shows from this era; they run at a more leisurely pace, the actors are more 'real' and not over-handsome or over-quirky, and the stories have some meat to them. I particularly like the classical music which overlays the Morse episodes.
One problem is that the original shows were filmed in a 16:9 ratio but modern TVs display in a 23.9:9, so the old shows only take up about 2/3 of the screen. To avoid having two black strips edging the picture clever technicians 'stretch' the old picture to fit the new dimensions. This leads to its own problems:the characters look short and squat and, worst of all, Inspector Morse's wonderful Jaguar Mark 2 loses its classic shape.
It think I'd prefer the black stripes.
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