Dallas To Get Remastered In HD
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bmasters9
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That, and bloopers, promos, the works!
TheDeadBobby
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Wouldn't it be weird if the mastering somehow erased the one episode where Bobby died along with the entire next dream season and finally the shower scene and everything else was clear as a bell and back to bidness as normal? Plus the Southfork pool looked much larger, much like an olympic size swimming pool and one worth of hosting the kind of parties that they did? And the more clear remastered digital format made the Southfork 3 car garage look more like a huge 23 car garage that they actually used to keep the hot sun from baking the cars in the driveway? ... and the 100 yard long Southfork front yard looked more like a mile long with cattle running around instead of the same old horses running back and forth every back to SF scene?
Wouldn't that be weird? Lets keep our fingers crossed, I'm glad they are finally doing this and hope they release it on single sided DVD.
Wouldn't that be weird? Lets keep our fingers crossed, I'm glad they are finally doing this and hope they release it on single sided DVD.
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Luke_Krebbs_Ewing
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This is terrific news.
"How could a fraud know the things I know! Like in 2023 when Warner Bros. released the entire series of Dallas on Blu-ray!
How could anyone on God's green Earth but Jock Ewing not know that!!"
Thanks for the news Garry.
"How could a fraud know the things I know! Like in 2023 when Warner Bros. released the entire series of Dallas on Blu-ray!
How could anyone on God's green Earth but Jock Ewing not know that!!"
Thanks for the news Garry.
Alexis
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Elsewhere only has Betamax but the player is broken.
Angela Channing
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I think for streaming, an HD remaster of Dallas would be awesome but I think Blu Ray is dying so I would be less optimistic about it being successful in that format.
Barbara Fan
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Thats good news - Ive already got it twice on DVD (didnt buy last 3 years as a second copy) , it would need to be really special to buy it 3rd time round with lots of good extras and NEW interviews or unseen interviews
Give me the Dinah Shore interview and that would definitley swing it for me!
And dont cut out any scenes Like BBG ones and dont take out music that featured in original show Like The episode of the Search
Give me the Dinah Shore interview and that would definitley swing it for me!
And dont cut out any scenes Like BBG ones and dont take out music that featured in original show Like The episode of the Search
Billy Wall
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Speaking of interviews. Does the actors that played secondary characters like Mitch, Jamie or Aston ever partake in interviews?
Rove
Telly Talk Warrior
My DVD collection finishes at Swan Song. Kind of poetic because it was if Warner Bros were saying you've just experienced the best years of Dallas. I'm possibly one of the few who has no interest in extras, interviews, bloopers etc. I'd imagine the process of remastering is a lengthy process so I'd be eternally grateful to Warner Bros if they released it as a Blu-Ray box set.
the-lost-son
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That's excellent, thrilling news. Best Dallas news in many, many years.
The possibilities are endless. I'm looking forward especially to season 9 (DVD 10), this horrible quality gone for good. What a great possibility to attract new audience. This could maybe lead the way for more to come.
Oh and please keep the original numbering this time.
It might be possible to get Falcon Crest and Knots Landing available in great quality and streaming.
Give us the deleted scenes, every single one of them.
Great news garry - thanks for sharing. What thrilling news.
The possibilities are endless. I'm looking forward especially to season 9 (DVD 10), this horrible quality gone for good. What a great possibility to attract new audience. This could maybe lead the way for more to come.
Oh and please keep the original numbering this time.
It might be possible to get Falcon Crest and Knots Landing available in great quality and streaming.
Give us the deleted scenes, every single one of them.
Great news garry - thanks for sharing. What thrilling news.
Grangehill1
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This news is so unexpected. I can’t actually imagine season 10 (dvd) looking pristine as all I’ve ever known is it looking horrendous. And that’s probably part of the reason I don’t like that season.
what great news
what great news
Seaviewer
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Not to put too much of a damper on it, but I'm not all that excited about a picture quality that's beyond the ability of my aging eyes to make out. I'd be happier with an SD release of Knots Landing before I shuffle off altogether.
Meanwhile, I'd better get to and buy the single-sided set while it's still available.
Meanwhile, I'd better get to and buy the single-sided set while it's still available.
Yeah, I really hate it when they do that.
Extra picture at the sides I wouldn't mind but, as @Snarky Oracle implies they usually do it by cutting the top and bottom off the original 4:3 image.
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Garry
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TheDeadBobby
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I'm hoping it will come out on BetaMax, I still haven't gotten my $550 money's worth out of my machine yet.
Matthew Blaisdel
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Great news!
I really hope they do release all those great soaps on Blurays, because i really would like to have them in good quality here on my shelf rather than on some subscription platform online.
I really hope they do release all those great soaps on Blurays, because i really would like to have them in good quality here on my shelf rather than on some subscription platform online.
I’m very happy to hear this and somewhat surprised, especially about the work that has to go into re-constructing the later seasons. Two of the Star Trek series - Deep Space Nine and Voyager - aren’t available in HD because Paramount doesn’t want to go the expense of reconstructing the episodes from the original film elements (it was shot on film but edited on tape). They did do it for Next Generation and the home video sales were disappointing (they also had the added expense of having to redo the special effects).
I do worry about it being cropped for widescreen, since that’s what happened to The Waltons - another Lorimar/WB show. And The Waltons has not yet gotten an HD home video release; those HD masters are used for cable and syndication runs. I would absolutely buy a Blu-Ray set if it became available.
I do worry about it being cropped for widescreen, since that’s what happened to The Waltons - another Lorimar/WB show. And The Waltons has not yet gotten an HD home video release; those HD masters are used for cable and syndication runs. I would absolutely buy a Blu-Ray set if it became available.
Matthew Blaisdel
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The more i think about it, the more i doubt there will be a release on Bluray.
I mean, when did Warner last release a bluray set of one of their TV shows? I can't even remember, it's been many years ago. They didn't even bother bo bring TNT Dallas on Bluray when Bluray was still a thing in 2014, they did just DVDs of it.
They stopped Falcon Crest and Knots Landing on DVD after only 2 or 3 seasons, because of poor sales numbers, what could they expect nowadays from it?
And bluray glasmaster are far more expensive (several hundred bucks per disc!!) than DVD glasmaster, so such a box with so many discs would cost them a fortune to produce in advance, they would have to be sure to sell high numbers of it to make it worth it.
Sony, the mother of the Bluray format announced they are heavily shrinking their whole Bluray catalogue from several thousand titles available to only 500 the next year.
The bluray market is dead. Sadly. But we have to be realistic here. As much as i would LOVE to have all 3 shows on Bluray ... but at this point (let alone 2023) i highly doubt they have any plans to release the remastered HD version on the home video market. :bag:
@garry , what exactly did they say regarding a bluray release?
I mean, when did Warner last release a bluray set of one of their TV shows? I can't even remember, it's been many years ago. They didn't even bother bo bring TNT Dallas on Bluray when Bluray was still a thing in 2014, they did just DVDs of it.
They stopped Falcon Crest and Knots Landing on DVD after only 2 or 3 seasons, because of poor sales numbers, what could they expect nowadays from it?
And bluray glasmaster are far more expensive (several hundred bucks per disc!!) than DVD glasmaster, so such a box with so many discs would cost them a fortune to produce in advance, they would have to be sure to sell high numbers of it to make it worth it.
Sony, the mother of the Bluray format announced they are heavily shrinking their whole Bluray catalogue from several thousand titles available to only 500 the next year.
The bluray market is dead. Sadly. But we have to be realistic here. As much as i would LOVE to have all 3 shows on Bluray ... but at this point (let alone 2023) i highly doubt they have any plans to release the remastered HD version on the home video market. :bag:
@garry , what exactly did they say regarding a bluray release?
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Mel O'Drama
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It's so bizarre that we have to worry about this kind of revisionism.
In the TV/video age of the Eighties and Nineties pan and scan was the enemy since purists quite correctly wanted to see a film in its original ratio without losing half the picture to fit square ourTV screens.
As time went on, pretty much everyone became enlightened to this, but now we have to worry about people cropping the original ratio to fit our widescreen TVs. Was nothing actually learnt from the pan and scan nightmare?