Dallas To Get Remastered In HD

[Rove]

Warner want to roll these episodes out for streaming worldwide first. But keep a look out.

My question is. On what service? Will they make a deal with Amazon Prime, Netflix, Disney+ or their own. I'm happy to suspend any or all of those 3 to watch Dallas.

A great pleasure to finally see the Dallas Season 1986-1987 without unpleasant graininess

Unfortunately it also shows up the obvious like the wires under the truck to control the detonation of the explosives. But I can live with that.

 

[Knots4ever]

My question is. On what service? Will they make a deal with Amazon Prime, Netflix, Disney+ or their own. I'm happy to suspend any or all of those 3 to watch Dallas.

It could be any depending on where you live.
HBO Max is likely where available but due to licensing there are many countries where it is not available.

Add to that the fact that Warner Discovery’s streaming strategy, different to many others, is based on also licensing content to other streamers and broadcasters.

It all depends on who is interested, or if a package deal exists and Dallas is part of that (that is for example the case with RTL+ in Germany).

I wouldn’t be surprised to see Dallas pop up on Prime and/or Freevee (the US version already has the non-remastered version along with Falcon Crest and other Warner shows), Peacock or in VOD libraries of random broadcasters like in Germany (in the UK ITV is adding dozens of USA shows to its new ITVX service for example).

 

[southfork88]

Very interesting to see that the color tone of this remastered season tends to be dark and similar to the original one of the 1985-1986 season (Pamela's dream season).

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

I do wish there had been some color regrading in this remastering.

 

[Garry]

In this scene part of the original element was missing so they used a short clip from the finished video master. You will notice there is more picture information on the remastered shot. This happens in a few episodes of the season.

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

I hear we’re going to get the more desirable alternate version where Bobby sees the wreckage of Jenna, Ray, and Charlie’s car following the tanker collision.

when I saw this and the post it’s in response to, both times my reflexive reaction was something like “of course Ray Charles would crash into a tanker if he tried to drive!”

 

[Grangehill1]

Does anybody know what this is all actually costing? And how WB want to make their money back? I’m only asking is why we’re seasons 10 to 14 done in a cheaper way back in the 80s? If the cost isn’t much more?

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

Does anybody know what this is all actually costing? And how WB want to make their money back? I’m only asking is why we’re seasons 10 to 14 done in a cheaper way back in the 80s? If the cost isn’t much more?

Warner Bros. will make their money back via the streaming of all remastered seasons of the former hit series Dallas on whatever internet streaming platforms will be allowed to offer it.

Whether it's HBO Max or whatever, Dallas will give Warner's a slice of the action.

The Blu-ray releases of the show will supplement the streaming revenue because not everyone can afford or want the streaming of the show. Many customers still prefer the hard media of DVD & Blu-ray therefore Warners have anticipated this demand and will make Dallas available on Blu-ray whilst it is available for streaming.

Warner Bros. are no fools, they are keeping their options open and in so doing are allowing fans of Dallas to either stream the show on an available network or own the show outright on Blu-ray.

 

[Grangehill1]

Thanks for this. But when originally transmitted Dallas was broadcast and sold all over the world so surely those costs could have covered the better picture quality in the 80s

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Does anybody know what this is all actually costing? And how WB want to make their money back? I’m only asking is why we’re seasons 10 to 14 done in a cheaper way back in the 80s? If the cost isn’t much more?

The streaming will offset the corrective costs, one assumes.

I'm not sure if you already know this, but when Telepictures bought out Lorimar in 1986, they started slashing costs, so the shows' post-production costs were curtailed by avoiding the more-expensive traditional film lab work by dubbing down the 35mm film pieces to one-inch video prior to editing -- a new, cheapy process that made everything look incredibly bad, as if shot with a video camcorder (as if they were shot on low-grade, low resolution videotape, but were actually still, technically, shot on 35mm film). DALLAS' Season 10 looked awful, but the look improved during Season 11.

Believe it or not, the Season 10 DVDs looked five times better than the year did when it was originally broadcast. And now, it's actually going to look genuinely good for the first time!

By Season 13 they returned to the old film lab process. I think.

 

[lost-in-time]

I’m interested in getting a complete boxset having always wanted to watch the show so this is exciting news.
Other than the picture and sound improvements were there any major errors with the DVD releases which can now be corrected?

 

[Miss Texas 1967]

I'm interested in seeing some of those later scenes on the ranch in a higher quality. There are some clips where the sky is a green colour
Does anyone know if the movies will be remastered too?

 

[Seaviewer]

Unfortunately it also shows up the obvious like the wires under the truck to control the detonation of the explosives.

My point exactly. I'm sure this is going to remain a minority opinion but I've already bought the DVDs twice due to the issues with the double-sided discs and I've no desire to the the episodes messed with like this.

In this scene part of the original element was missing so they used a short clip from the finished video master. You will notice there is more picture information on the remastered shot. This happens in a few episodes of the season.

Seriously?

 

[Grangehill1]

In this scene part of the original element was missing so they used a short clip from the finished video master. You will notice there is more picture information on the remastered shot. This happens in a few episodes of the season.
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Sorry I’m really confused what you mean in this post. Which image is meant to have the better quality? Sorry am I being thick. Could u clarify a bit more

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Sorry I’m really confused what you mean in this post. Which image is meant to have the better quality? Sorry am I being thick. Could u clarify a bit more

Actually, you are being, slightly.

Obviously, the top image has more detail, and the bottom image has a "softer" look with fewer lines and less resolution.

But there are people who don't recognize the difference between the real Southfork and the fake Hollywood set, so don't feel bad.

 

[Grangehill1]

So to my eye the bottom image looks better and more slick. Hence why I had to ask. But I still don’t understand about having to splice in a clip? From what source?

 

[Garry]

So to my eye the bottom image looks better and more slick. Hence why I had to ask. But I still don’t understand about having to splice in a clip? From what source?

The top image is from the original video master (DVD version). It's been sharpened a little. The bottom image is from the HD source. It also has more picture image compared to the top photo. The majority of HD Season 10 has been sourced from the original film negative along with some A.I. video upscaling.

 

[southfork88]

Based solely on my memory (I haven't picked up my DVDs again to verify) the image above wasn't particularly worse than the new HD version.

 

[Grangehill1]

Me again. I’m so sorry but this has completely confused me. One poster said the top image had more detail and the bottom softer which ‘should’ imply the top image should be better.

but to my eyes the bottom image looks better and more slick. Is that what im meant to think?
When you say the HD source. Aren’t both images sourced from the same original source?

 

[Brian Kinney]

Aren’t both images sourced from the same original source?

Look at the edges - I think that's the difference. In the lower picture (where a "short clip from the finished video master" was used ) you see more as in the upper "original element" where that part was missing. The bottom image is remastered! Your eyes don't deceive you and I think without J.R. in the picture you see clearer about the restored picture information.