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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 444191" data-attributes="member: 57984">In the late-&#039;80s, the network shows were beginning to experiment with new (crappy, cheapy) post-production techniques, like with Lorimar and DALLAS in 1986 when Pam woke up to a low-resolution blur which looked like old-style videotape (not corrected for 40 years).Aaron Spelling looked into the new process (&quot;Telecine&quot;??) and thought it was awful, refusing to use it. Instead, he did -- or allowed -- something else equally lousy. So beginning with the last third of Season 6 (spring 1986) of DYNASTY, the broadcast prints in the States became so splotchy, so ruddy, so grainy that it was shocking that ABC would acquiesce to the idea of airing it that way for two years.When the DVDs later came out, the Region 1s were much better, but other regions apparently were not. And some of the old, original broadcast prints which were so ghastly were still circulating somewhere. You&#039;d never believe how bad Blake&#039;s masquerade ball looked when it first aired (I used to have a screen grab, printed in the tabloids, which reflected it, but I&#039;ve since lost it). THE COLBYS was pretty much the same.When nobody in these industries gives a phukc, nobody gives a phukc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 444191, member: 57984"] In the late-'80s, the network shows were beginning to experiment with new (crappy, cheapy) post-production techniques, like with Lorimar and DALLAS in 1986 when Pam woke up to a low-resolution blur which looked like old-style videotape (not corrected for 40 years). Aaron Spelling looked into the new process ("Telecine"??) and thought it was awful, refusing to use it. Instead, he did -- or allowed -- something else equally lousy. So beginning with the last third of Season 6 (spring 1986) of DYNASTY, the broadcast prints in the States became so splotchy, so ruddy, so grainy that it was shocking that ABC would acquiesce to the idea of airing it that way for [B]two years[/B]. When the DVDs later came out, the Region 1s were much better, but other regions apparently were not. And some of the old, original broadcast prints which were so ghastly were still circulating somewhere. You'd never believe how bad Blake's masquerade ball looked when it first aired (I used to have a screen grab, printed in the tabloids, which reflected it, but I've since lost it). THE COLBYS was pretty much the same. When nobody in these industries gives a phukc, nobody gives a phukc. [/QUOTE]

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