Dallas To Get Remastered In HD

Garry

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After many years of speculation Warner Brothers are currently re-scanning Dallas from the original 35mm masters for a complete HD restoration. The project has been on going for several months. Seasons 10-13 are being reconstructed from the original elements as they only currently exist in one inch video SD master tape.

The project will take quite some time to complete but the plans are to have Dallas stream on HBO Max and eventually stream globally with an eventual Blu Ray release (possibly in time for the 45th anniversary in 2023) . Warner are also looking at restorations for Knots Landing and Falcon Crest. It's just going to take time!

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Snarky Oracle!

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garry said:
Seasons 10-13 are being reconstructed from the original elements as they only currently exist in one inch video SD master tape.
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Thank you, Jesus! See? Prayers are answered! To finally see S10 in such vivid vividity! (Although I've become accustom to the blurry look it's had for the last 35 years, as if Pam is bleary-eyed, having just woken up, which is probably why she didn't see that tanker truck until the last second..... Don't dream and drive, people!!!).

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Now I have to live long enough to see it. I'm not sure they have Bluray in heaven or, y'know, elsewhere.
 
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Sarah

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garry said:
After many years of speculation Warner Brothers are currently re-scanning Dallas from the original 35mm masters for a complete HD restoration. The project as been on going for several months. Seasons 10-13 are being reconstructed from the original elements as they only currently exist in one inch video SD master tape.

The project will take quite some time to complete but the plans are to have Dallas stream on HBO Max and eventually stream globally with an eventual Blu Ray release (possibly in time for the 50th anniversary in 2023) . Warner are also looking at restorations for Knots Landing and Falcon Crest. It's just going to take time!

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Look at this beautiful man and he's going to be remastered!!!! Is that even possible??!

Great news thanks Garry!! :dance::dance:
 
Snarky Oracle!

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Next, if we can only have them loop in new dialogue for Pam and Bobby's first post-dream scene, where they he can explain to her -- really perfunctorily -- that he was under federal witness protection, that Angelica was really a high-end hit woman hired by Katherine to kill Ewings in an elaborate scheme, that Sue Ellen has enough make up to cover her injurious scarring from that bomb, that Jamie left her car running to warm it up and that it blew up without her, that Ray and Donna are estranged again because the court reversed its decision about Tony's custody, that Donna's obstetrician called to say she was pregnant once again and she's moved back to Southfork, and that that new cowhand, Ben Stivers, has legally changed his name to "Wes" because it's just prettier.

All in 90 seconds.

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Toni

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Thanks a lot for the news @garry!!

What about some actors being erased...? Pleeeease... (You all know who I´m talking about...)

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Fake Miss Ellie arrives at the airport...

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Mandy´s first kiss to J.R.
(by request of @Sarah, probably...)​
 
GillesDenver

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Snarky Oracle said:
Next, if we can only have them loop in new dialogue for Pam and Bobby's first post-dream scene, where they he can explain to her -- really perfunctorily -- that he was under federal witness protection, that Angelica was really a high-end hit woman hired by Katherine to kill Ewings in an elaborate scheme, that Sue Ellen has enough make up to cover her injurious scarring from that bomb, that Jamie left her car running to warm it up and that it blew up without her, that Ray and Donna are estranged again because the court reversed its decision about Tony's custody, that Donna's obstetrician called to say she was pregnant once again and she's moved back to Southfork, and that that new cowhand, Ben Stivers, has legally changed his name to "Wes" because it's just prettier.

All in 90 seconds.
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And that Katherine did not die.
Actually Angelica could be Katherine under some very advanced disguise.
 
Snarky Oracle!

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Toni said:
Thanks a lot for the news @garry!!

What about some actors being erased...? Pleeeease... (You all know who I´m talking about...)

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Fake Miss Ellie arrives at the airport...

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Mandy´s first kiss to J.R.
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They'll just dub in some new dialogue referring to her as Jenna's sweet aunt who has to double up with Clayton (while Ellie is ailing in that mental institution Cidre told us about) because the Southfork guest rooms are all full.

When she takes down Jock's portrait, Donna Krebbs can say, "Thank goodness, Caroline, that someone like you who has no emotional investment has finally done it,"



"I sure wish somebody outside the family would take this gawl-danged painting down....!"
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Excellent news! I really hope we'll get a blu ray release. I already own two versions of the DVD release (the original double sided ones and the first single sided box.)But I would gladly buy a Blu Ray release as I finally got a Blu Ray player for Christmas last year and have started to update my collection of some of my favorite movies to Blu Ray. :)

Oh and one more thing, the extra material that I really, really, really would love to watch on this release are the deleted scenes that were filmed but never broadcast.
Imagine getting "new" Dallas scenes to watch after all these years?

That would be a real treat. :tot:
 
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garry said:
The project will take quite some time to complete but the plans are to have Dallas stream on HBO Max and eventually stream globally with an eventual Blu Ray release (possibly in time for the 50th anniversary in 2023) . Warner are also looking at restorations for Knots Landing and Falcon Crest. It's just going to take time!
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If you mean 2023 it would make it the 45th anniversary. I mean the 50th is not until in 2028!
 
James from London

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Thanks Garry! DALLAS being released on DVD, DALLAS coming back on TV and now this - yet another thing I was absolutely certain would never happen but then ... did.
 
Taylor Bennett Jr.

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Snarky Oracle said:
Next, if we can only have them loop in new dialogue for Pam and Bobby's first post-dream scene, where they he can explain to her -- really perfunctorily -- that he was under federal witness protection, that Angelica was really a high-end hit woman hired by Katherine to kill Ewings in an elaborate scheme, that Sue Ellen has enough make up to cover her injurious scarring from that bomb, that Jamie left her car running to warm it up and that it blew up without her, that Ray and Donna are estranged again because the court reversed its decision about Tony's custody, that Donna's obstetrician called to say she was pregnant once again and she's moved back to Southfork, and that that new cowhand, Ben Stivers, has legally changed his name to "Wes" because it's just prettier.

All in 90 seconds.

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Cliff would be so disgusted by all this that he’d instantly abandon his “fairly decent human being” impression and go back to being an egotistical jerk, especially to Jamie
 
Garry

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I just hope they don't ruin it all doing a letterbox format version, cutting off JR's stetson and boots in order to accommodate it.

They did that with the remastering of Hitchcock movies, using the old "open matte" rationale to justify it.
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Don't think Warner would put Dallas in the 16:9 ratio. They did that with the Friends remaster but that show had enough extra picture information on the sides to justify it. I always laugh at some episodes of Dallas where you can clearly see the camera equipment on the side of the picture or a sound boom on top waiting to hit Miss Ellie up the face. :)
 
Billy Wall

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garry said:
Don't think Warner would put Dallas in the 16:9 ratio. They did that with the Friends remaster but that show had enough extra picture information on the sides to justify it. I always laugh at some episodes of Dallas where you can clearly see the camera equipment on the side of the picture or a sound boom on top waiting to hit Miss Ellie up the face. :)
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Or the top of the set at fake Southfork. Lol
 
Rove

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garry said:
After many years of speculation Warner Brothers are currently re-scanning Dallas from the original 35mm masters for a complete HD restoration.
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Thank you Garry for this piece of news. I'd love the opportunity to purchase Dallas as a box set on Blu-Ray. It was high time Warner Bros became aware there is a market for those classic 80's super soaps either on a streaming service or DVD/Blu-Ray Box Set.
 
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