Dallas To Get Remastered In HD

[pete lashmar]

This is such wonderful news, just saw it and came straight on here - it's very exciting.

I just hope hope hope that we can get a commentary at least for the original mini series with Patrick, Linda, Victoria, Charlene & Steve.

...and tons of extras....please x

 

[darkshadows38]

i wonder if they will put the remaster on bluray soon? lord knows some episodes really did need it

 

[Rove]

It's exciting, isn't it!

...mixed with some nerves. This all sounds a little quick for my liking. It doesn't seem that long ago @garry - I believe - gave us the news. I am hoping it will be released on Blu-Ray however I might have to wait and see if someone else makes the purchase and puts up online a side by side comparison between the old and the new. Otherwise if a hatchet job has been done on this the best I hope for is if Warner Bros releases it on DVD as a box set. That has to be better than nothing because as many have pointed out the process of converting anything old to 16:9 format to fit our beautiful big screen televisions is near impossible.

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[bmasters9]

I wonder what the Dallas title sequence will look like remastered.

 

[Angela Channing]

Is there any news why they are doing the remaster? I would assume it is so they can stream it on one of their platforms. It a huge commitment and cost for a series that is almost half a century old.

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

Is there any news why they are doing the remaster? I would assume it is so they can stream it on one of their platforms. It a huge commitment and cost for a series that is almost half a century old.

For streaming purposes most certainly but I'm thinking that as a once well-loved series they want Dallas to attract & reach a new audience. Certainly us fans are over the moon with the remastering but for me as a fan of hard media I'm hoping for Blu-ray releases of the show. As Dallas ran for so long it would make financial sense for Warner Bros. to put Dallas out on Blu-ray.

This is such wonderful news, just saw it and came straight on here - it's very exciting.

I just hope hope hope that we can get a commentary at least for the original mini series with Patrick, Linda, Victoria, Charlene & Steve.

...and tons of extras....please x

Oh yeah tonnes of extra's.

I want a dedicated documentary about the birth of the show with David Jacobs, David Paulsen and Lee Rich and as many others that they can get. A tribute to Leonard Katzman and Philip Capice. A retrospective about the production company Lorimar. Individual overview documentaries about the various seasons. A tribute documentary dedicated to Jim Davis. Character profile documentaries of all the main cast. And if I can think of anything else like footage of the original season nine cliffhanger of Ben Stivers revealing to Miss Ellie that he's Jock, provided it still exists of course.

Fingers crossed we get great comprehensive Blu-ray releases full of extra's.

 

[Angela Channing]

For streaming purposes most certainly but I'm thinking that as a once well-loved series they want Dallas to attract & reach a new audience. Certainly us fans are over the moon with the remastering but for me as a fan of hard media I'm hoping for Blu-ray releases of the show. As Dallas ran for so long it would make financial sense for Warner Bros. to put Dallas out on Blu-ray.

That's why I was asking. I would love a Blu-ray release but I think it's a dying medium so I wouldn't be surprised if it is never makes it to Blu-ray.

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

That's why I was asking. I would love a Blu-ray release but I think it's a dying medium so I wouldn't be surprised if it is never makes it to Blu-ray.

I'm not so sure about Blu-ray being a dying medium, the Doctor Who collection season Blu-ray's sell like hot cakes.

I can see any potential Dallas collection season Blu-ray's flying off the shelves too.

 

[bmasters9]

For streaming purposes most certainly but I'm thinking that as a once well-loved series they want Dallas to attract & reach a new audience.

I think also that such was the reasoning behind why O-R NBC 60s Star Trek was remastered for DVD and Blu-Ray.

 

[Angela Channing]

I'm not so sure about Blu-ray being a dying medium, the Doctor Who collection season Blu-ray's sell like hot cakes.

I can see any potential Dallas collection season Blu-ray's flying off the shelves too.

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I hope you're right however, Blu-ray sales peaked in 2013 and have declined every years since so I do feel streaming only might be their intentions.

On the plus side, the main costs for Blu-ray releases are the rights because the manufacture and distribution costs are relatively small and Warner Bros Discovery own every stage of the process so if they thought it would profitable there wouldn't be many obstacles to them doing a Blu-ray release.

 

[pete lashmar]

If they make a blu-ray box set available with, recoloured, revised sound, extras, interviews and documentaries the sets will sell very well with just the core Dallas fans, which worldwide would do good sales.

Add to that curious buyers and also TV networks wishing to screen it again in it's restored glory and WB have made their money back.

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

If they make a blu-ray box set available with, recoloured, revised sound, extras, interviews and documentaries the sets will sell very well with just the core Dallas fans, which worldwide would do good sales.

Add to that curious buyers and also TV networks wishing to screen it again in it's restored glory and WB have made their money back.

This could be the best thing that ever happened to Dallas. It would raise the public profile of the show.

They should still stream it of course, on selected platforms. The show could be a hit again on streaming platforms and that would give great marketing potential for the Blu-ray releases.

 

[Grangehill1]

I cannot wait to see what season 10 onwards looks like. The picture quality has always been horrendous and to think we’re soon going to see those final seasons looking prestine. It’s going to be very strange

 

[pete lashmar]

If they are planning extras let's hope and pray that they attempt to do as much as possible with the original surviving cast, plus it would be wonderful to have "The secretary tales" from Sly, Phylis, Kendal & Jackie and as many other cast members as possible such as Priscilla etc.

This is probably the last opportunity to do this for DALLAS, let's hope they don't f**k it up.

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

If they are planning extras let's hope and pray that they attempt to do as much as possible with the original surviving cast, plus it would be wonderful to have "The secretary tales" from Sly, Phylis, Kendal & Jackie and as many other cast members as possible such as Priscilla etc.

This is probably the last opportunity to do this for DALLAS, let's hope they don't f**k it up.

I don't want them to f**k it up for Dallas either.

It was a very influential series.

I grew up with it along with Doctor Who, here in the UK.

Warner Bros. need to lavish the attention on Dallas, because it was a ground breaking series.

It was well loved, even to this day. And needs to be honoured as one of the best American drama series of all time.

 

[pete lashmar]

I don't want them to f**k it up for Dallas either.

It was a very influential series.

I grew up with it along with Doctor Who, here in the UK.

Warner Bros. need to lavish the attention on Dallas, because it was a ground breaking series.

It was well loved, even to this day. And needs to be honoured as one of the best American drama series of all time.

Now all we need restored, upgraded and given the HD treatment is Blake's 7

 

[Rove]

I wonder what the Dallas title sequence will look like remastered.

I quite like the graininess and hues of brown in the opening titles. I'm kind of a purist when it comes to these things. I'd much rather if they left everything as is...just a little polished.

 

[Ray_Krebbs]

I'll definitely rewatch the entire program in HD on a streaming service. I no longer buy DVDs. It's a space saver for me.

 

[darkshadows38]

i would love if these made it to bluray i can therefore get rid of my dvd's and also i may not have the entire show on dvd but the way they did the show with episodes on both sides and season 3 being so poorly done and 4 the discs i mean where at least in my set where on season 4 the discs don't stay in it very well and can easily scratch they need to fix that for the bluray if they put them on bluray. also i dunno if any deleted scenes are still around but dammit put those on as extra's the dvd's are so bare it's not even funny. and by poorly done i'm talking about the packaging with the discs not staying in and of course give us episode guides as well those are so much easier to use if you want to see which episode you left off on

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

I cannot wait to see what season 10 onwards looks like. The picture quality has always been horrendous and to think we’re soon going to see those final seasons looking prestine. It’s going to be very strange

Season 10 is really what I want to see visually-corrected, as it's one of DALLAS' best years (except, y'know, for that opening "I just had a terrible 31 episode dream that didn't really happen" scene).

Although the original DVD for Season 10 looked three times better, if you can believe it, than the original broadcast prints back in 1986.

For those who may not know the story, Lorimar started using a new, clunky, less-expensive computerized process where the 35mm film pieces were dubbed down to low-grade video (prior to editing!) giving the show an incredibly shoddy, cheapy look. It had been rumored that the 35mm film pieces had been tossed away and no longer existed, but more recent stories were that those film pieces had indeed been saved and only had to be reassembled to bring Seasons 10 ,11 and 12 up to the optical standards we expected, and that this would be done for the new release. (Seasons 13 and 14 returned to the old, traditional lab work back in 1989).

We'll see if it's all actually fixed. And if the heads and feet aren't cut off...