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Dallas To Get Remastered In HD
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GillesDenver
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But Victoria Principal's acting is still embarrassing !
Snarky Oracle!
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But Victoria Principal's acting is still embarrassing !
She did rapidly improve after this plotline.
GillesDenver
Telly Talk Dream Maker
Yes, I won't deny that.
Mustard
Telly Talk TV Fanatic
If anyone new to Dallas starts watching it from the beginning, they can become hooked pretty fast. Its mixture of serious drama with its Godfather-esque business and political power games, combined with social issues typically seen in soap operas, will draw people in. For years, the quality goes on and on and on. And later on, it crashes slowly and then it gets really ugly where the quality of the show has gone out of the window and people are just showing up out of habit, for a laugh and for pay cheques.Wonderful.
The show is looking as if it was made yesterday and the 'Dallas' theme music still has it!!
Powerful stuff, is it any wonder the show was a massive hit in the 1980's.
I have my fingers crossed that it will be a massive hit again via the streaming platforms. I hope the Blu-ray's will sell well too. Gawd I love this show.
Rove
Telly Talk Warrior
This about sums up my love/hate relationship with Dallas...and that's including TNT Dallas. Warts an' all I still wish to purchase the re-mastering of Dallas as a boxset.
Once again Garry...thank you. I'd imagine @Barbara Fan is going to be pleased to see Barbara Bel in glorious HD.
bmasters9
Telly Talk Mega Star
Indeed-- love the apparent new fresh sound on that fourth-season end-title track.
OT-- another show from way-back-when looks like a million bucks on its DVD releases: The Streets of San Francisco (incidentally, we are almost to the 50th anniversary of the debut of that ABC 70s police procedural).
Grangehill1
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When are we going to have an image from season 10? I literally cannot wait to see what they’ve done with it. Is it still going to be hideously pink? Are we going to see the terrible fashions and hair styles more clearly???? Will the upgrade somehow affect John Parker’s terrible music and make it better?!
I literally cannot wait
I literally cannot wait
Grangehill1
Telly Talk Fan
They changed their editing process. It was still shot on film but post production was done in a much cheaper way. One of Leonard Katzman’s amazing ideas to save money. Thank God it was shot on film hence we can get an upgrade now.
Garry
Telly Talk Fan
It was two execs at Lorimar who decided on all their shows in the mid 80's to be edited from film to a video master. It saved about $20,000 for each weekly budget and they foolishly believed no one would be interested in drama shows on HD in the future. Katzman was against the idea and by the final Dallas season he was editing Dallas on the old style 35mm process so a physical film print of that season still exists today.
Mustard
Telly Talk TV Fanatic
So were Seasons 10-13 DVD made on video rather than film?
Toni
Maximum Member
I wasn´t 100% sure of that while re-watching it recently, so thanks for the info, but the improvement was obvious. The Paris episodes looked absolutely cinematic. If they had just gone back to Southfork to film the last episodes...
Luke_Krebbs_Ewing
Telly Talk Champion
No, they were still shot on film.
They were edited on videotape rather than being edited on film.
That's why DVD season ten, the infamous Wes Parmalee Jock Ewing season looks very washed out and grainy because of the lower video resolution.
Thank goodness the original film masters still exist so we can see these seasons in full High Definition.
Angela Channing
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I'm more excited to the latter seasons in high def than the earlier ones, even though the series was past it's best by then.No, they were still shot on film.
They were edited on videotape rather than being edited on film.
That's why DVD season ten, the infamous Wes Parmalee Jock Ewing season looks very washed out and grainy because of the lower video resolution.
Thank goodness the original film masters still exist so we can see these seasons in full High Definition.
I think the original broadcast quality of the earlier seasons was pretty good and although high definition will be an improvement, it will be nothing like as much as seeing the improvement on the grainy video that was broadcast for the last seasons.
Luke_Krebbs_Ewing
Telly Talk Champion
I'm looking forward to seeing season ten remastered because of Steve Forrest's sublime performance as Wes Parmalee/Jock Ewing.
That season has always been a favourite of mine.
Angela Channing
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I think season 10 was the last truly great season of Dallas and it will be awesome to see it in high definition.I'm looking forward to seeing season ten remastered because of Steve Forrest's sublime performance as Wes Parmalee/Jock Ewing.
That season has always been a favourite of mine.
Snarky Oracle!
Telly Talk Supreme
As former sitemember @alpaige explained it, the shows were still technically shot on 35mm film, but to avoid the traditional lab work expenses, the film pieces were dubbed down to 1 inch video on a new computerized process, and -- he thought -- those film pieces thrown away.
The old-timers in the lab couldn't believe that the shows were being broadcast that way (and neither could the viewers) but the bean counters foolishly thought the devolution in quality was worth the savings.
It sounds like, perhaps, those film pieces may have been preserved, which is how they can now make (hopefully) pristine prints of S10 thru S13, but @garry can probably explain that detail.
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Matthew Blaisdel
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Yes, for me it will be somethin like seeing it for the first time again. Even the seasons after that, while the storylines are getting worse and worse, it will still be awesome to be able to enjoy them in that gorgeous quality like never before, can't wait!
I was always under the impression that they changed back to film editing by the episode "When the fat lady singeth", when Linda Gray left.
Because that last episode of that season looked sooo much better than the ones before and that better quality then remained throughout the last 2 seasons.
With the last season i always had a problem, because the colors looked really strange, as if it was recorded in black and white and then later artificially colored. It looked a litte off and unnatural to me, especially the faces were kind of brownish sometimes. The colors of James' Shirts looked, like they weren't real.. plus, the end credits of last season had a very strange color as well. I dunno... maybe it's just me..
One (for me) very important question: do the remasters by any chance include the recaps before the opening credits? Cause i LOVE recaps!!!
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