No, for reasons never clear to us, SciFi insisted that the show be shot in the old TV “square” aspect ratio (4:3). We argued that this was crazy since everyone in Hollywood knew that in a few years all TV in the U.S. would go to the HD 16:9 aspect ratio. But they wouldn’t budge. As for it looked “crowded,” that was how the director of photography liked it.
Update: 2016, another fan has pointed out that when Hulu ran the series, it was presented it wide-screen and was NOT cropped top and bottom (as would normally happen if you pulled a 16.9 image out of a 4:3 shaped frame. He even included screenshots proving his point. We don’t have an answer for how this was done. We only know what we were told during production.
Was the show filmed in the 16:9 [widescreen and HiDef] aspect ratio and cropped for SciFi? It looked ‘crowded’ and ‘cropped’ on TV. was last modified: September 4th, 2016 by
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