Yesterday from the Beatles
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Trully happy for Dallas! But I'll scream for days and have multiple orgasms when Knots Landing gets remastered!
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Willie Oleson
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Should we get our hopes up (amongst other things) in case HDALLAS is going to be introduced with a lot of fanfare? [/wrings hands]
Considering the effect it would have on you maybe we should just say that it is going to happen
Yesterday from the Beatles
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@Willie O.: Two years ago I read an article about Hbo Max (Vulture, „HBO Max Struts Into the Streaming Thunderdome“), saying Dallas and Knots will be there! Still waiting! Now, reading all these comments here, I think it's finally safe to hope! Be still my heart!
Rove
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I never had the opportunity to see Knots Landing however with all the positive things I've heard about it and the occasional cross-over guest appearance from Dallas characters I'd probably purchase a box set.
Snarky Oracle!
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As much as I love DALLAS, KNOTS was a much more consistent show and downright sublime in many ways. Sure, some people are put off by the first couple of seasons of KNOTS, because they think it feels a little like a daytime soap for primetime, but the show gets its legs pretty quickly, and then they're off and running.
Luke_Krebbs_Ewing
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Actually me being serious for a moment, Knots Landing is quite a good show but it's more in the format of the recently finished Australian soap Neighbours.
Knots isn't in the same league as Dallas. The only attraction for fans of Dallas is the crossover episodes but that stops once Bobby Ewing returned & Knots were unwilling to acknowledge that on their show. To be honest who can blame them. Just be aware that Bobby stayed dead on Knots and any further crossovers with Dallas were negated.
Knots isn't in the same league as Dallas. The only attraction for fans of Dallas is the crossover episodes but that stops once Bobby Ewing returned & Knots were unwilling to acknowledge that on their show. To be honest who can blame them. Just be aware that Bobby stayed dead on Knots and any further crossovers with Dallas were negated.
The main titles of the mini-series and the first five seasons (misleadingly renamed seasons 1 through 6 by Warner Bros. since they released the show on DVD) were apparently reconstructed from scratch, which seems to have been an incredible job.
The German RTL+ streaming service has these seasons online already, so I had the opportunity to have a look at them last week. While the main titles may not be 100 % crystal clear as the episodes themselves, they look nearly as good, let's maybe say 95 or 98 % of the picture quality of the scenes. Also, the fonts were selected carefully and correctly, both in shape and size, and the superimposed lettering was apparently positioned exactly where it used to be in the original version. I wonder how many hours they had to spend on each title card. Even though I'm a very critical viewer and quality purist with an eye for the original, I could not see any difference, at least not yet. The main title segments look really fabulous.
(I wonder, however, if this will work equally well with shows like "Falcon Crest" and "Knots Landing", which have much more complicated main title sequences, just considering the falcon coat of arms and the swirl effect in the later seasons of "Falcon" and the difficult montage of visuals of the cul-de-sac in the early "Knots" seasons or their later colorful photo frames.)
Sorry I can't show you any "Dallas" main title screen grabs since taking screen shots is deactivated by the streaming service. I couldn't find any way to circumvent this for illustration purposes.
I'm astonished that the "Dallas" remastering has not been publicized and advertised by WB since it's actually a milestone in the more current history of the show.
The German RTL+ streaming service has these seasons online already, so I had the opportunity to have a look at them last week. While the main titles may not be 100 % crystal clear as the episodes themselves, they look nearly as good, let's maybe say 95 or 98 % of the picture quality of the scenes. Also, the fonts were selected carefully and correctly, both in shape and size, and the superimposed lettering was apparently positioned exactly where it used to be in the original version. I wonder how many hours they had to spend on each title card. Even though I'm a very critical viewer and quality purist with an eye for the original, I could not see any difference, at least not yet. The main title segments look really fabulous.
(I wonder, however, if this will work equally well with shows like "Falcon Crest" and "Knots Landing", which have much more complicated main title sequences, just considering the falcon coat of arms and the swirl effect in the later seasons of "Falcon" and the difficult montage of visuals of the cul-de-sac in the early "Knots" seasons or their later colorful photo frames.)
Sorry I can't show you any "Dallas" main title screen grabs since taking screen shots is deactivated by the streaming service. I couldn't find any way to circumvent this for illustration purposes.
I'm astonished that the "Dallas" remastering has not been publicized and advertised by WB since it's actually a milestone in the more current history of the show.
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Yesterday from the Beatles
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Totally agreed!
Knots4ever
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Doesn’t sound like you watched much of Knots…Actually me being serious for a moment, Knots Landing is quite a good show but it's more in the format of the recently finished Australian soap Neighbours.
Knots isn't in the same league as Dallas. The only attraction for fans of Dallas is the crossover episodes but that stops once Bobby Ewing returned & Knots were unwilling to acknowledge that on their show. To be honest who can blame them. Just be aware that Bobby stayed dead on Knots and any further crossovers with Dallas were negated.
wickedmiranda
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So first 6 seasons are on RTL+ in Germany (first 3 went up July 15, 4-6 in Aug 15), seasons 7 to 9 will be available from Sept 15 according to this article https://www-digitalfernsehen-de.tra...tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc
which means seasons 10 to 12 from Oct 15, seasons 13 and 14 from Nov 15?If only I was more technically savvy, even with VPN I can't quite figure how to watch them. hopefully a kind soul will rip the episodes and they'll show up on torrent sites while we wait for US/UK/Australia to release them properly
which means seasons 10 to 12 from Oct 15, seasons 13 and 14 from Nov 15?If only I was more technically savvy, even with VPN I can't quite figure how to watch them. hopefully a kind soul will rip the episodes and they'll show up on torrent sites while we wait for US/UK/Australia to release them properly
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Miss Texas 1967
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Knots Landing really is a great show. It's much more down to earth for the first bit, then the big business interests and real villains creep into the storylines which are genuinely well written. Even the tying together of plot threads over several seasons was done better than most shows.
It is hard to compare to Dallas as it is pretty different but it's just different, definitely not worse.
Rove
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Oh wow. Impressive
Luke_Krebbs_Ewing
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I wonder did they fix or keep the mistake which was made in the season five (DVD count) opening credits.
Susan Howard's credit was noticeably larger than everyone else's.
Not that it would have taken much to fix it if they remastered the original footage before re-constructing the actual sequence.
Personally I don't mind if they didn't fix it at all.
Susan Howard's credit was noticeably larger than everyone else's.
Not that it would have taken much to fix it if they remastered the original footage before re-constructing the actual sequence.
Personally I don't mind if they didn't fix it at all.
Knots4ever
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Just double checking that there is some official confirmation that RTL+ is really using the remastered versions? RTL has previously created cleaned-up and upscaled masters of a number of other 80s and 90s shows, some of which have since been "officially" remastered in HD. A few years ago RTL did that with a whole lot of promotion before broadcasting those shows mainly on its NITRO channel. Some of them were simply upscaled and cleaned up blu-ray versions.
Examples include The Fall Guy, Magnum P.I., The A-Team, Law & Order, Family Matters and Riptide.
Don't get me wrong - all (well, most) of them look great but they're not official remastered releases.
Fall Guy
Family Matters
Examples include The Fall Guy, Magnum P.I., The A-Team, Law & Order, Family Matters and Riptide.
Don't get me wrong - all (well, most) of them look great but they're not official remastered releases.
Fall Guy
Family Matters
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Miss Texas 1967
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Good!
Dynasty is crisp and it's such an experience. I like Dallas better as a show but the picture quality of Dynasty is much more pleasant. Especially when you get to the post-dream years of Dallas, that video tape quality is just horrendous.
Snarky Oracle!
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A certain "grain" has always seemed endemic to the '70s -- even in the '70s. But it will be hard to complain if the rest of DALLAS looks this crisp ... especially after Pam wakes up.
Rove
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In my terms it's good. I just want the re-mastered Dallas as a boxset bad...I mean really bad.