Some would defend the Orange Bricks and BluRays by saying that "Who cares if we lose a cloud or a few strands of hair?"... Now this is not a very good defense as those releases do in fact cut out important details at times, leaves the footage looking overly cramped much of the time, and cuts out parts of the image we are clearly meant to see ALL THE TIME.Gaffer Tape wrote:I wouldn't say either is "okay". Just that one is significantly less intrusive and detrimental than the other.
That said... this defense is totally viable for the Blue Bricks, and also the widescreen-cropped versions of the movies. Because while there is less footage compared to other releases on both, said missing content is stuff placed outside this action-safe zone, and so even with the movies being cropped to widescreen and DB having a bit of the edges removed, we're still getting all the content Toei intended for us to see...
...I think. I mean, I don't own the Blue Bricks... Still, no, as far as I'm concerned, the amount of picture we're getting with those sets is perfectly acceptable, because we're only losing footage that genuinely is irrelevant.