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The did something similar to Buffy The Vampire Slayer when "upgrading" it to HD. It lost all/most of the color grading and was cropped to 16:9.

Some night scenes now take place during daytime and you can see booms and camera operators in many shots.

It never even got a blu ray release. The only way to watch it at home without egregious errors is still DVD as far as I know.

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Not just that, they seem to have also applied some weird auto-cropping that made “choices” no human doing the job would have, meaning that in some scenes characters who were meant to be in frame aren’t, then suddenly and surprisingly appear when there’s a cut to another angle (this is usually in group dialog scenes—like “oh that’s who they were talking to!”)

I have the PAL DVD release, and I have to say the color grading has never been great, although it obviously at least has the correct effects applied.

The PAL release is already the bad copy (starting with season 4 I think). You already had odd stuff in view that wasn't supposed to be visible.

The only way to watch this show properly now is the 4:3 NTSC DVD release.

I think the recent streaming releases also have the music altered in many places. The show just got <bleep>ed up basically. It's a real shame.

Hmm, I didn't notice any "odd stuff in view" when I watched it, so at least it wasn't obvious. I'll have to keep an eye out next time I watch

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