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Post by jonwitchell on Jan 13, 2019 21:34:43 GMT
Hi guys,
I was just wandering if there is any improvement on the quality of the episodes on the latest re-release?
I have both DVD releases, and there doesn't seem to be any noticeable changes. Some episodes, particularly one of the later 'Year of the Burn Up' are in need of a good clean-up.
Are the re-release prints simply transferred from the original source for the first DVDs, or did they go back to the actual film prints?
Many thanks,
Jon
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Post by jonwitchell on Jan 30, 2019 16:25:05 GMT
Anyone able to answer this please?
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Post by Mark Tinkler on Jan 30, 2019 17:12:13 GMT
Pretty sure it's just a re-release of the same DVDs so no new masters... would only happen if they make a Blu-Ray I would think.
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Post by Peter Stirling on Jan 30, 2019 23:58:42 GMT
The original DVD was released in 2004 so with the march of technology there may well have been improvements in the actual presentation and resolution of the prints if you say there is a new release around.
However what they cannot change is the actual prints themselves which are what survives. Carlton (successor to ATV) have said that the original colour videotapes were damaged or unplayable (apart of course from THE one) so were probably discarded? To be fair to the contractor doing the transfer he would have been worried about faulty tapes actually damaging his rare machine with hard to get parts, so may have abandoned the transfer altogether? Of course with hindsight they could have kept them and waited for today with the latest technology and someone like Paul Vanezis around with his accumulated knowledge probably would have got them going again.
The problem was in those days most TV companies by then had got rid of their 2' VTRs and relied on outside contractors to transfer and they didn't really understand these now new to them faults and how they could be overcame.
So what you have left is the international films prints that were transferred from the lost masters, they have obviously been around the block a few times and today can be made to look better than they did in 2004.
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Post by jonwitchell on Jan 31, 2019 14:27:37 GMT
Thanks guys, much appreciated!
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Post by Matthew Kurth on Feb 20, 2019 5:20:20 GMT
Timeslip is a show I very much wish could be checked for chromadots. Given that they're prints and not negs I imagine if they exist they are weak and we'd get only a partial restoration like Invasion of the Dinosaurs:1, but regardless it is something I'd like to know definitively.
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Post by jonwitchell on Feb 20, 2019 15:18:31 GMT
Timeslip is a show I very much wish could be checked for chromadots. Given that they're prints and not negs I imagine if they exist they are weak and we'd get only a partial restoration like Invasion of the Dinosaurs:1, but regardless it is something I'd like to know definitively. I agree!
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Post by Logan Jutanberg on Dec 14, 2019 7:16:22 GMT
Retracted due to misinformation.
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