Dallas To Get Remastered In HD

[Matthew Blaisdel]

However if there were missing film elements then all that could be really done is to upscale from Standard Def to HD.

Well, there is affordable AI upscaling as well meanwhile (from Topaz Labs for example), with quite astonishing results. There are scenes from Star Trek DS9 and Voyager on youtube, that have been upscaled by fans of the shows that way from the SD material and it's pure CGI, no film elements were scanned for that. Those scenes look really great on a 4K TV, even though the old SD episodes that served as source material clearly don't, they look like crap. And all that just by AI upscale rendered on a customer PC.
That should be the way to go these days for the opening credits, if they don't find the original 35mm snippets of the title cards.

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

Television in those days didn’t reflect it? In Britain it did! We could definitely tell the drop in picture quality between seasons 9 and 10. Picture quality was awful

Yeah it was very grainy and in out door scenes it looked like it was raining.

In the UK of course we used the PAL analogue system which is 625 interlaced resolution. The USA used NTSC which was 525 interlaced resolution, so I'm not surprised the American's didn't notice the difference!

 

[Seaviewer]

If the moderators here on telly talk don't mind @Seaviewer where did you purchase your Dallas boxset from? No links please, just the company name beginning with the letter and ending in the letter. I will be able to figure the rest out. How much?

No great secret. It was Amazon AU, although it was shipped from Amazon UK - region 2 is just fine as @Miss Texas 1967 says. However, rechecking now I see that the supplier is different and more expensive than what I paid.

 

[Laurie Marr]

I was thinking new music. I'm just hoping the people put in charge of remastering Dallas are purists rather than - GOD forbid - use stock footage from TNT Dallas opening credits. I know which I prefer.

...not this. Please no.

And, of course, the TNT iteration of the theme was composed using virtual instruments.

 

[darkshadows38]

it's always nice to see after you get something for a good price for a really damn good price like for example i got for x-mas and with $20 bucks off gift certificate for best buys i got Smallville complete set for i think it was $95 bucks i want to say? yet i've seen them have it as much as $160 bucks! so i got a deal on it.

but once you get that and you see how much that same place sells it for when the sales go off cause it was also on sale as well for i want to say $115 i think? that still is a deal though.

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

I'm wondering will they release the Dallas season's individually on Blu-ray like they did with the original DVD releases?

Or will they just go with a complete collection Blu-ray boxset like the DVD collection I have which I posted upthread?

 

[Rove]

Or will they just go with a complete collection Blu-ray boxset

Hopefully this option as those little gold coins I've been stashing away since the announcement has covered the cost of a boxset...fingers crossed.

However, rechecking now I see that the supplier is different and more expensive than what I paid.

Thanks @Seaviewer. Interesting you say that because when I looked into this while waiting for a reply from you I noted how the supplier suddenly switched from Amazon UK to now someone completely different....and yes the price went up. I've now made the decision to play the wait and see game with the announcement of the remastering of Dallas.

 

[Miss Texas 1967]

i think it will be Separate than like before do a box set once they are all out but one wonders when they will even announce season 1 ?

Ohhh are we gonna have the debate here again about whether they call it season 1 or the mini series?

 

[darkshadows38]

to me it's season 1 cause that's how i first saw it so i call it season 1 i wasn't born yet when the show started so even though many here saw it when it first aired as the mini series i wasn't born yet so when i first saw it was when it came to dvd hence why i call it season 1. either way my guess they may put both seasons 1 and 2 together like they did with the 1st dvd set.

 

[Miss Texas 1967]

to me it's season 1 cause that's how i first saw it so i call it season 1 i wasn't born yet when the show started so even though many here saw it when it first aired as the mini series i wasn't born yet so when i first saw it was when it came to dvd hence why i call it season 1. either way my guess they may put both seasons 1 and 2 together like they did with the 1st dvd set.

I was joking. I would also call it season 1 and understand why they've packaged it the way they have. It's just something which gets mentioned reasonably often in discussion here. Like people will say season 9 (DVD 10) etc.

 

[Rove]

I cannot recall if Dallas started here in Australia as a mini series or simply started with the initial 5 episode run and kept going until the completion of the first season.

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

I was joking. I would also call it season 1 and understand why they've packaged it the way they have. It's just something which gets mentioned reasonably often in discussion here. Like people will say season 9 (DVD 10) etc.

I always refer to the seasons by their DVD boxset numbering.

It makes for a quieter life.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

I always refer to the seasons by their DVD boxset numbering.

It makes for a quieter life.

Until somebody fights you over it.

I don't have much of a preference, but, despite arguments to the contrary, both counts have existed from the very beginning and weren't "changed" by Warner's when the DVDs started coming out in 2004... and that can be checked-out by looking at old TVGUIDE issues or CBS press releases, which almost always went by the S1 thru S14 count (which is how the industry used to tally these things, even though fans and those close to the show preferred the "mini-series thru S13" count).

Some people seem to care a lot -- and since I don't, I like to interpret that as evidence of my being well-adjusted...

. And I suppose it can get confusing.

 

[darkshadows38]

joking okay but not everyone calls them seasons 1 and 2 and that was directed at them and there's nothing wrong with calling it either way

 

[Karin Schill]

The extra material that I really, really want is deleted scenes. I would love to see "new" scenes from the original Dallas that were cut originally.
I wouldn't mind some bloopers or gag reels either.

 

[Billy Wall]

The extra material that I really, really want is deleted scenes. I would love to see "new" scenes from the original Dallas that were cut originally.
I wouldn't mind some bloopers or gag reels either.

I can understand a movie keeping deleted scenes, but would a TV show?

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

I can understand a movie keeping deleted scenes, but would a TV show?

I want to see the footage of a fever-stricken Jock in South America ranting and raving about all kinds of random family history in the presence of Wyatt Haynes!

 

[Billy Wall]

I want to see the footage of a fever-stricken Jock in South America ranting and raving about all kinds of random family history in the presence of Wyatt Haynes!

Good one. Always thought it was interesting that he’d share Sue Ellen’s story in South America. Lol

 

[Chris2]

In the late 80s, most filmed series in the US were being edited on tape. They saved money in the short term but long term this has made the upgrade to HD expensive. Paramount had to re-compose a number of ”Cheers” episodes from the original film elements in order to upgrade to HD, because the latter half of the series was edited on tape. “Star Trek: The Next Generation” was even more challenging because the special effects were all done on video, so they had to be redone for HD. Because of this, “Deep Space Nine” and “Voyager” are only seen in SD to this day.

The most significant filmed series of the day that remained edited on film is “Murder She Wrote” and that’s because Angela Lansbury and her team insisted (and she had the clout to do it). Smart lady.

 

[Rove]

The most significant filmed series of the day that remained edited on film is “Murder She Wrote”

Interesting you mention this because Murder She Wrote is currently screening here in Australia and watching the occasional episode I'm stunned how clear it is...and I'm watching it on a 55" smart screen.