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by baryphonic 2144 days ago
Such a good movie. I have a copy on my machine, and I'm sometimes sad that it's a 4x3 analog cable TV broadcast before HD. On the other hand, the fact that it's so good despite the constraints speaks to how well made it was.
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The Pirates of Silicon valley DVD was the first item I've ever bought on Amazon. This was circa 2001, I was 15 and living in Europe. Ordering something from the US over the internet and having it delivered 2 weeks later was very exciting back then. I also had to 'hack' my DVD player to circumvent the region lock.

Anyway, my point being is: there is a 572p 16:9 version available on DVD.

I wonder if it's a real 16:9 version or if they just cropped the top and bottom off the 4:3 cut.

Some early DVDs had a lot of love put into their production, some others did pretty heinous things to the source material though.

Perhaps we could remaster it using machine learning?