The Wire - Why No Blu Ray? Other titles that should be on blu ray

The Insider
Munich

ETA: If we're including movies in the discussion.

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The Wire - Why No Blu Ray?

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Website won't pull up for me for some reason, but if you google "the wire's visual style" and click on the slate.com link, there's a very good video essay and article that talks about why they leave it in 4:3 and not hd. I think the article even mentions a David Simon quote on the matter.

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Why No Blu Ray?

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Wrong aspect ratio, I think.

I remember it not being in widescreen.

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Even the 4:3 aspect ratio—which has, according to Lavik, become rare among cable's prestige dramas—was chosen by Simon because it seemed less inherently cinematic, more "real." (Lavik points out, however, that directors on the series often constructed a widescreen effect by shooting with a long lens across a blurry, horizontal object in the foreground, as in the scene with Mayor Carcetti and Bunny Colvin pictured above.)

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