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Luke_Krebbs_Ewing
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southfork88
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The service is not available in Italy
FRedCarrington
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Not in France too !! 
Rove
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Knots4ever
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For all those outside the US, keep an eye out for it on Freevee/Prime but also services where other WBD shows are available... 9Now in Australia, ITVX in the UK etc.
wickedmiranda
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. . . or Australia.
have they been added to our iTunes yet? the thumbnails look like the old versions. I did find some remastered versions on torrent sites but have to find 300GB of room on my hard drive... would be so much easier to just streamI'll second that and up the anti of 2
Angela Channing
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I just watched the final episode (Conundrum) on Freevee (using a VPN) and it's a vast improvement from the version that I previously watched on the BBC, never before have I seen the colours so bright and the image that clear. It might be my imagination, maybe my VPN connection or perhaps my wifi, but it didn't look quite as good as some of the remastered scenes I've seen on YouTube.
I really hope they get around to doing Falcon Crest at some point.
I really hope they get around to doing Falcon Crest at some point.
I am really grateful for the fact that the episodes have been brought into HD, and that Freevee is streaming them, so not looking to look a gift horse in the mouth, but while the pictures does look improved, right out of the gate I noticed there are no trailers or recaps in season 1 or 2. Is this going to be the case if/when they are released physically? I also noticed the shot in season 2 of Barbara is always the same, meaning we never see the first shot used where Jock turns away from her. A minor gripe, indeed, but still. I'm a bit of a historian when it comes to my fave TV shows. I want things appear exactly as they did when they first aired, outside of the picture quality of course. That's why it always irked me when shows like Hart To Hart, once on DVD, for season 1 and 2 the exact same intro for each season is tacked onto each episode, rather than getting to see the couple of alternate intros originally used, lost forever now. And with the 3rd season of hart to Hart, they mistakenly have the 2nd season music on the first 19 episodes. How on earth did this happen? They finally got it right 20 episodes in? Laigh
Luke_Krebbs_Ewing
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Unfortunately this is because the one's responsible for doing the HD remastering aren't familiar with the show.
They're just muppets which is why I blame Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog for all that carry on!
Like you I am also really grateful for the remastering. I'm not happy the teasers and recaps (Last on Dallas from the later seasons) were not remastered. However, the graphics for the credits for Season 8 onwards leave a lot to be desired. You can really tell this was a rushed hash job. In Season 8, for some reason on the first scrolling panel the black bar is obnoxiously wide. Very glaring error that can be easily fixed. Donna Reed's first appearance in the credits is missing. She was added to the credits starting on episode 7. For episodes, 7-10 she had a different picture than what was used for the rest of the season. She is completely missing from the credits in those episodes and goes uncredited - yikes! The ending credits for season 10, 11, 12, and 13 all used the Southfork shot that was used in Season 7, 8, and 9. These remastered episodes use the background from season 2-6. The fonts for the intro from season 10 onward are wrong. Season 10 has a ridiculous extruded shadow that was never there before. The black lines of the three way split are thicker than ever really chaning the look up. In season 12, Charlene Tilton and Sheree J. Wilson look like different fonts from the rest. The alignment is off from both the upper text and lower text of the name and the name is off center from the three way split. The font in season 13 and 14 is not the original font used again with glaring alignment and sizing issues (the first name is too large). Season 12 title card for the Dallas logo should read "A Lorimar Television Production" and it does not. The Lorimar Television logo appears to be missing too on the episode close for seasons 12, 13, and 14.
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lost-in-time
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Oh that’s such a shame. I’m like you, I always prefer my TV shows to be presented exactly as originally aired. I guess it won’t be a deal breaker for me getting the Blu-ray but I’d prefer any errors fixed before it’s released if possible.
More errors...
The sliding panels used in Season 7 intro are wrong. They clearly reused the ones from season 6, not aware that in season 7, the oil derricks picture changes to the one used in season 8 and the picture of the skyline of Dallas, behind the logo, in the middle of the scroll changes.
Barbara Bel Geddes picture on her three way split for the first half of season 4 is not correct
The sliding panels used in Season 7 intro are wrong. They clearly reused the ones from season 6, not aware that in season 7, the oil derricks picture changes to the one used in season 8 and the picture of the skyline of Dallas, behind the logo, in the middle of the scroll changes.
Barbara Bel Geddes picture on her three way split for the first half of season 4 is not correct
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Laugh. See, this kind of stuff drives me crazy. I want to see my shows as they originally aired. Intros and closing credits as well. Yes, the actual episode is obviously the main piece, but all of these other things helped set the tone. It's fun to see how things naturally progressed, I suppose? A time capsule? It's sad to think that some of the intros of certain shows haven't been right since their early syndication packages, yet; then the episodes were chopped up for TV. Once a lot of these shows got to DVD, the intros were messed with, sometimes not even the right intro or theme for the season; music rights for songs during the episodes. Look at "Happy Days" for instance. The best of that show in my opinion was the first two seasons, and once on DVD, the 2nd season didn't even use the original "Rock Around The Clock" intro. Hardly any of the original music was used in the episodes. This stuff wasn't the case for Dallas, though. I think the DVDs were pretty accurate for how the episodes originally aired here in the states, correct? I mean, obviously Dallas didn't feature many actual songs during the episodes, but I mean everything else was pretty much as it aired? This bothers me about the HD restoration. I'm grateful for the chance to see it, but at the same time, no trailers or recaps? I just don't see why it would have been so hard to get everything right. At the same time, maybe I'm in the minority. Most people might just be happy to have the shows at all, or are more concerned with visual and sound quality. I think it's cool to see it in HD, but I'll probably just check out some of the seasons/episodes on streaming, and stick with the DVDs for Dallas.
I scrolled through some of the intros just to see what looks different. Dang, I have to say, the picture really does look good, and is crisp. The new font on the names doesn't really bother me. I also noticed that season 14 has an ever so slightly different shot of Patrick Duffy in the credits. Yes, it's the same shot it always was, but it cuts in at a different place or something, where he kind of looks down first. Interesting. Something most may not even notice or care about. I do like how they seemed to keep up with all of the different variations of the theme tune, even ones that took place in or during one particular season. I just wish visually they had kept the same variations, but they didn't. For instance, season 3 no longer has the continuously moving side panels of the actors in the first 4 episodes. Some minor gripes over all. This is a hard one for me because most of these things are fairly minor complaints, especially considering what we are getting here. I don't know. I need to watch some of the episodes. I do think not having the trailers or recaps is a big problem. I'm still on the fence here. These changes could have been a lot worse.
ErikKristensen97
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Will the remaster be released on HBO max?