Dallas To Get Remastered In HD

[Grangehill1]

I can’t stand season 10. It’s when Dallas starts getting campy, the fashion and hair styles are awful - everybody looks a mess and everything looks pink!

BUT… is part of the reason I don’t like it because of the picture quality? I remember watching the original BBC broadcast and it was awful and the dvd not much better. Will I suddenly like the season when the picture quality improves? Can’t wait to find out

 

[Jock's Ghost]

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.

They did with Star Trek, lost in space....

The drop in quality was an industry thing. Star Trek: The next Generation suffered the same fate, being shot on film, transferred to video tape for faster, cheaper, editing. and it looked like shit, except television in those days didn't reflect it. Now, with HD.... Trek was fixed so this is great news.

 

[Jock's Ghost]

WHERE THE HELL IS KNOTS LANDING??????????????????

 

[darkshadows38]

the same place it was last time someone asked in the vaults still apparently or wherever the hell it has been for years waiting to be put out on dvd

 

[Grangehill1]

The drop in quality was an industry thing. Star Trek: The next Generation suffered the same fate, being shot on film, transferred to video tape for faster, cheaper, editing. and it looked like shit, except television in those days didn't reflect it. Now, with HD.... Trek was fixed so this is great news.

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

 

[Rove]

I'll definitely rewatch the entire program in HD on a streaming service.

This will depend entirely on what streaming service it will end up on. Not all the big players are available internationally and the very thought of having to pay an additional fee to access another streaming service to watch Dallas will irritate me. I'm hoping Warner Bros will release it as a box set either on DVD or Blu-Ray as this will be my preferred option.

Since @Via The Void released this news here on Tellytalk I'm a little suspicious how quickly things have moved since the first announcement. It suggests to me Warner Bros only have intentions of releasing Dallas on a streaming service...to get it out there and see how things pan out.

It's a wait and see game. Typical. It's like reliving the era of cliff-hangers :scream:

 

[bmasters9]

The drop in quality was an industry thing. Star Trek: The next Generation suffered the same fate, being shot on film, transferred to video tape for faster, cheaper, editing. and it looked like shit, except television in those days didn't reflect it.

It was the same with that 1986-94 NBC legal series/primetime serial L.A. Law; Shout!'s DVD releases (as far as they've gone) looked absolutely just plain horrible; there were splotches and scratches in the film, among other things.

 

[Garry]

This will depend entirely on what streaming service it will end up on. Not all the big players are available internationally and the very thought of having to pay an additional fee to access another streaming service to watch Dallas will irritate me. I'm hoping Warner Bros will release it as a box set either on DVD or Blu-Ray as this will be my preferred option.

Warners plan is to have Dallas stream on HBO Max. (Knots Landing / Falcon Crest is also on their radar) Each remastered season should also be available to purchase globally on Amazon. HD episodes will also be available to air on TV Channels re-running the series. A blu ray release is also on the cards. Warner have spent quite a lot on the Dallas restoration so they want to recoup some of that cost.

 

[darkshadows38]

honestly Dallas the seasons i do have which are i think seasons i think 1-8 some of those really could have needed more work done to be honest. well if that's true i can't wait until Dallas and if smart they will Release Knots really quickly so when Season 3 comes and from my understanding that's when the show got to be popular that can maybe sell more units. i dunno if i'm right or not but i do hope that it hits bluray at some point this year the sooner the better

 

[Rove]

A blu ray release is also on the cards

Thank you so much @garry for the update. Please keep this small group here on Telly Talk up to date with information as it comes to hand. I personally don't belong to any other social media website so your news is really appreciated.

 

[Matthew Blaisdel]

A blu ray release is also on the cards. Warner have spent quite a lot on the Dallas restoration so they want to recoup some of that cost.

The problem is, that a Bluray release is quite expensive. Each Bluray glasmaster containing 4 or 5 episodes will cost them around a thousand bucks, and you need loads of those glasmasters for the entire show. Those boxes will need to be high prized (around 400 Dollars at least for 14 whole seasons) and sell quite well to make them any profit, and i quite doubt that. And i also don't see them putting any effort in new extras as well, as that would make it even more expensive.
They didn't even release TNT Dallas properly on Bluray, although the HD material was already available, they just released it on shitty-cheap DVDs in much lower resolution than what was seen on TV, which was a real shame.

Even the worldwide very popular Star Trek TNG was a huge letdown on Bluray for CBS financially, the first 2 or 3 seasons did alright, but then the sales numbers dropped so drastically, that at the end the whole project was a big minus for CBS, so that they didn't even bother to transfer DS9 or Voyager to HD to this day.

As much as i would love a bluray release, i just can't see enough people worldwide buying those in the numbers that are needed to make it profitable for them.
But it's good to hear the remastered seasons will be digitally available for purchase on Amazon, as that's a valid option to kind of "own" them in HD quality.

 

[Seaviewer]

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.

Isn't it just a matter of slicing the tops and bottoms off? Fortunately, I've finally purchased the DVD box set in original glorious 4:3. So far the single-sided discs are playing okay but it's a heck of a job prying some of them out.

Each remastered season should also be available to purchase globally on Amazon.

What happens to the ones I've purchased on YouTube? I kind of like having the streaming option parallel but not replacing the discs but doubling, then tripling, now quadrupling is going a bit far - especially with Knots nowhere to be seen.

 

[Rove]

Fortunately, I've finally purchased the DVD box set in original glorious 4:3

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?

 

[Toni]

I may be the only one here, but I think that the remastered won´t change the low quality of the last 5 seasons, nor the stupidity of the Dream scenario. I do look forward to seeing the new image in OR Season 6 and the Dream Season, because both of them had an above average Photography and Art Direction.

...Though Ms. Gray didn´t like it very much (I don´t know why)​

 

[Miss Texas 1967]

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?

Not @Seaviewer but same part of the world. I've said before the region 2 releases are perfectly compatible with the Australian region 4 players. I've had them for years, single sided discs and they play fine on my cheap Dick Smith DVD player and my more expensive Panasonic one.

On the thread topic I'd love to see the later seasons remastered. I'd also like to watch Knots Landing again all the way through. I lost the copies I had from Youtube unfortunately.

If they're going to add them to streaming in remastered quality I'd like to at least see them physically available in that same quality, although I'm not sure I'd repurchase at release since it was a cost to purchase the original DVDs.

 

[Rove]

but I think that the remastered won´t change the low quality of the last 5 seasons, nor the stupidity of the Dream scenario

Of course no amount of technology wizardry will alter the appalling decline of Dallas in those last seasons but as a glued on Dallas fan I wish for the opportunity to see it all again as my personal collection of Dallas finishes at Swan Song.

 

[darkshadows38]

i wondered how long it was going to take before someone mentioned how they wish the remastering could change the later seasons it took far longer than i thought it would to be honest

 

[Matthew Blaisdel]

I wonder how they will remaster the opening credits of each season. As far as i remember those shots were not all taken from random scenes, but shots, that the actors did especially for the title cards. If they didn't find those extra film elements, they would have to change the credits to other various scenes of the actors.

I'm also curious how closely the new version of the Dallas-Font will match the original versions. But when i look at some of those awesome fanmade classic alternative opening credits for each season on youtube, it should be possible to stay very true to the originals.

 

[Rove]

I wonder how they will remaster the opening credits of each season.

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.

 

[Garry]

I wonder how they will remaster the opening credits of each season. As far as i remember those shots were not all taken from random scenes, but shots, that the actors did especially for the title cards. If they didn't find those extra film elements, they would have to change the credits to other various scenes of the actors.

I'm also curious how closely the new version of the Dallas-Font will match the original versions. But when i look at some of those awesome fanmade classic alternative opening credits for each season on youtube, it should be possible to stay very true to the originals.

Graphics and VFX Artist Michael Moser has been working on the opening credits for all seasons. He's the go to guy for a job like this. He recently worked on the credits for the 4K scan of the James Dean movie Giant.

The fonts are not a big problem for Dallas. However if there were missing film elements then all that could be really done is to upscale from Standard Def to HD.