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There are several issues with remastering Babylon 5:

1) the variable frame rate: live action is 24p anything with CG is effectively 60p (both in a 60i container). This is difficult to do in HD.

2) a lot of the source materials for the CG are scattered to the winds, and the surviving stuff is in semi-obscure formats, that make re-rendering expensive.

A few people on youtube have posted fan restorations of the CG based on source-material that have fallen into their hands, and it looks pretty good… but I can’t see WB making the same effort to restore the CG further. Maybe as AI upscaling improves - it might look better.

3) Questions around 16:9 vs 4:3 framing.

Either way - great show - but HD doesn’t do some of the aets any favours.

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A full series remaster in 4:3 HD came out a few years ago. It looks a lot better than you seem to assume it would. You might want to check it out.