The Wire Finally Gets HD Remaster, Blu-Ray Planned

HBO has finally confirmed that it has performed a high definition remaster of all sixty episodes of its acclaimed drama series “The Wire”. The entire series has been re-mastered from more than 8,000 reels of original 35mm camera negative with all the episodes essentially going through the post-production process again.

The original negatives were scanned, edited, dust-busted and color-corrected with great care and attention taken to stay true to the look and feel of the original Standard-Definition 4×3 version.

”The Wire: The Complete Series” in HD will be available for the first time as a full series purchase at iTunes, Google Play, X-Box Video and Vudu on January 5. Individual episodes and seasons will be available through all of HBO’s Digital HD retailers.  HBO has also revealed that the series will be available on Blu-Ray for the first time, summer 2015.

So if you didn’t originally check this classic series out, this might be a good opportunity to do so…

To celebrate the HD launch, HBO Signature will air the entire series consecutively, one season per day starting with season 1 on Friday, December 26 at noon.