Dallas To Get Remastered In HD

[DallasFanForever]

So she passed on the same year he did?

She died in 1995, about a year before her father I believe

 

[Mel O'Drama]

remember seeing a post somewhere (maybe where, maybe somewhere else, I honestly can't remember) which said that WB are also working on HD-ing Knots Landing and Falcon Crest.

Yes they are. All of the Lorimar produced soaps which Warners own - Dallas, Knots Landing and Falcon Crest are being remastered to High Definition for streaming & Blu-ray release purposes.

This sounds like wonderful news. Before I get seriously excited, though, where has it been confirmed about Knots and FC?

Knots has been so poorly treated by WB in terms of home media that I can't help feeling a tad cynical about any good news in that department.



Edit: I've just read back through this thread and I think Post #36 has begun to answer my question. But I still daren't hold my breath for a complete Knots Landing Blu-ray set anytime soon.

 

[Richard Channing]

 

[Richard Channing]

 

[Seaviewer]

The series has been formatted in both widescreen and the original aspect ratio.

Is there direct comparison anywhere so we can see what might have been cropped out?

 

[Chris2]

When they reformat from 4:3 to 16:9, heads tend to get chopped off, so maybe we’ll see less of Hagman’s toupee.

 

[Rove]

Is there direct comparison anywhere so we can see what might have been cropped out?

I hope as this task has been undertaken by people who work within the industry they have a knowledge of 4:3 to 16:9 aspect ratio. Also @garry was it you who mentioned a reworking of the opening credits was in the works? Do you have any further information on this? Thank you again for keeping us here on TellyTalk informed. I appreciate it.

I cannot wait to see Dallas, Southfork, the Ewing family and that magnificent bastard (JR) in glorious HD.

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[Snarky Oracle!]

. Also @garry was it you who mentioned a reworking of the opening credits was in the works? Do you have any further information on this?

Oh, really?? I never heard this... Fans do tend to hate the opening visuals from the last two seasons (which looks like something a kid would put on Youtube, but was apparently designed by producer Cliff Fenneman who simply used old, tired footage which just made the switch look all the more pathetic), when they abandoned the traditional style used in the first 12 seasons.

I'm mostly against "sweetening" on principle, but if anyone can convince me that sweetening is actually "fixing" errors, then I'm all in.

The orchestrations from the last couple of years are just fine.

 

[Rove]

Oh, really?? I never heard this

It was mentioned here on Telly Talk someone had been engaged to work on the opening credits. Surely I'm not having a Pam Ewing - dream - moment.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

It was mentioned here on Telly Talk someone had been engaged to work on the opening credits. Surely I'm not having a Pam Ewing - dream - moment.

And I'll re-write it for them.

 

[Chris2]

I know that when they go to HD they have to redo the opening titles because the superimposed title and actors names were done for SD. I’m guessing, though, that it won’t be an overhaul or noticeable change.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

I know that when they go to HD they have to redo the opening titles because the superimposed title and actors names were done for SD. I’m guessing, though, that it won’t be an overhaul or noticeable change.

Sounds more realistic. Unfortunately.

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

I know that when they go to HD they have to redo the opening titles because the superimposed title and actors names were done for SD. I’m guessing, though, that it won’t be an overhaul or noticeable change.

They'll probably remaster the original title sequence film elements. Then recut it into the actual sequence and add in new credits lettering and the zooming Dallas logo along with the credit for Created by and Produced by to complete the sequence.

 

[Garry]

I hope as this task has been undertaken by people who work within the industry they have a knowledge of 4:3 to 16:9 aspect ratio. Also @garry was it you who mentioned a reworking of the opening credits was in the works? Do you have any further information on this? Thank you again for keeping us here on TellyTalk informed. I appreciate it.

I cannot wait to see Dallas, Southfork, the Ewing family and that magnificent bastard (JR) in glorious HD.

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VFX Artist Michael Moser remastered the Dallas opeing titles at Warner Bros. They look sharper with more clarity.

For streaming sites and probably the future blu ray release Dallas will be rolled out in its original 4:3 aspect ratio. A widescreen version is just a zoom and crop job as Dallas didn't have the benefit of having a lot of picture information at the sides in order to create a decent 16:9 image.

 

[Rove]

For streaming sites and probably the future blu ray release Dallas will be rolled out in its original 4:3 aspect ratio

I can live with this...I just wish to own the boxset

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

glorious!

 

[darkshadows38]

Let;'s face it they really needed to remaster the show anyways, yes some of the episodes on the dvd's were fine and looked good but than some of them looked pretty bad and they really needed cleaning up more than they did. they don't need to letterbox the show in fact i really detest it when a tv show is that way, am i alone in this? movies i get are letterboxed i have no issue on that but why do tv shows need to be? i don't understand that nor will i ever, nor will i get why some companies force it on shows that don't need it as it's been said it was filmed one way why stretch it out when it's not needed?

 

[Mel O'Drama]

For streaming sites and probably the future blu ray release Dallas will be rolled out in its original 4:3 aspect ratio.

This is a huge relief considering there's not enough information at the sides to open the vertical mattes.

A widescreen version is just a zoom and crop job as Dallas didn't have the benefit of having a lot of picture information at the sides in order to create a decent 16:9 image.

Yuck. The 21st Century equivalent of pan and scan. Now as then, it's so pointless to lose a proportion of the image that's always been there, changing the aesthetics and the director's composition (and the visual "message") in order to fill the screen and lose the black bars.

I suppose if mattes were a dealbreaker for some potential viewers it's possibly a wise thing to create both while they're at it. Still, I'm very grateful that a Blu-ray release is likely to be in 4:3 as I'd be most unlikely to invest in a cropped version.

 

[Toni]

They'll probably remaster the original title sequence film elements. Then recut it into the actual sequence and add in new credits lettering and the zooming Dallas logo along with the credit for Created by and Produced by to complete the sequence.

Time to edit out Presley, Reed and Wilson!!

 

[Grangehill1]

I cannot wait to see a screen grab from season 10 onwards