Series 1-8 Blu-Ray Reactions

[Dave]

Zoom has started sending the Series 1-8 Blu-Ray boxsets out, so they will probably start arriving in the post over the next couple of days.

I thought it might be worth having a new thread to compare notes in advance of the official G&T review.

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[MANI506]

I’m as excited as an extremely excited person who has a special reason to be excited. Sadly I live in the US and even though I have a blu ray player it isn’t multi region. I do have all the American DVDs though (having previously purchased British VHS & DVD) and I’m looking forward to the reviews and analysis!

[Stabbim the Skutter]

It would feel wrong if the members of G&T were to like it, let alone consider it an improvement. I look forward to reading all the negative comments and articles surrounding this release. ;)

[Moonlight]

I await the moment it turns out they James Cameroned Series III with DNR so intense it turns the picture into a smudge painting.

[Warbodog]

Colour grading/timing is the only thing I’m slightly worried about. Please don’t turn the beige/cream into white or pour a teal tint over everything like Blade Runner.

[Moonlight]

I dunno, if you’ve seen how horrible DNR can be then it should be pretty high on your list for concerns with the early series, primarily III. DNR is the autotuning of video clean-up; it’s way overdone and you’d almost always be better without it.

[bloodteller]

>It would feel wrong if the members of G&T were to like it, let alone consider it an improvement. I look forward to reading all the negative comments and articles surrounding this release. ;)

Honestly same, I’m looking forward to the G&T article on the Blu-Ray more than I’m looking forward to the actual Blu-Ray

[Dax101]

I don’t have a blu-ray player so in haven’t ordered it yet. But I hope to see some footage uploaded online to see how it looks

[si]

Ooh! Ooh! Mine’s just arrived!

Sadly, I’m on the bus to work, so can’t actually have a nosey until this evening.

[Dave]

Mine should be waiting at home too.

I’ve already seen some photos of the final set and it looks like they match the promo artwork exactly – dodgy half-ramscoop included.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Didn’t we figure out the half-ramscoop was just a perspective thing and it just doesn’t work in that art style?

Mines coming from Amazon so probably won’t arrive until Monday :(

[Dave]

No, I think it’s that the picture has been poorly copied from a shot of the pencil-Dwarf that was at a perspective that made the top parts of the scoop hard to see, and the bottom parts look like they were coming from underneath the entire ship.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fb/3c/4a/fb3c4a7f0983d0f498bf21d84be40192.jpg

[Ian Symes]

Locking this thread as we now have a front page post for this purpose.

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