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 BLAKE'S 7 *IS* COMING TO BLU-RAY...
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| pbgroover |
Posted on 11-11-2024 11:51
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Sounds truly excellent! Can’t wait to see what they do with Star One and Aftermath! Hopefully should get my set today, yesterday RM advised delivery Tue, but this morning I get an update, delivery is now today! Happy days!! |
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| Joe Dredd |
Posted on 11-11-2024 13:36
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SupremeCommanderDiane wrote: ↑ I'd post a picture but I've yet to figure out how to put pictures into forum posts There's an absolutel SPLENDID guide here: Click! |
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| Steve White |
Posted on 11-11-2024 21:45
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Sounds truly excellent! Can’t wait to see what they do with Star One and Aftermath! Hopefully should get my set today, yesterday RM advised delivery Tue, but this morning I get an update, delivery is now today! Happy days!! |
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| SupremeCommanderDiane |
Posted on 12-11-2024 02:33
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SupremeCommanderDiane wrote: ↑ I'd post a picture but I've yet to figure out how to put pictures into forum posts There's an absolutel SPLENDID guide here: Click! Haha - Joe, I tried to figure it out right at the beginning when you first posted it up. It just made no sense to me and I don't have Imgur or anything like that, so I just gave up. I know how to (laboriously) upload pics to news features or articles (a ridiculous system!) but I think I'll just have to accept that the forum will just have to be words for me. I'm sure your guide has been helpful to people with greater tech skills than I. |
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| pbgroover |
Posted on 12-11-2024 11:48
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Sounds truly excellent! Can’t wait to see what they do with Star One and Aftermath! Hopefully should get my set today, yesterday RM advised delivery Tue, but this morning I get an update, delivery is now today! Happy days!! Yes, although had a full on evening yesterday so only managed a brief watch. Has yours arrived also? 1st thing is the box, artwork and booklet, quite outstanding! So glad someone with a love for the show has overseen this! Dipped into Time Squad to sample the blu ray quality and to compare new SX with old. Wow! The picture quality is amazing, not 4K perfect but a massive jump up over the dvd, so much detail and colour on the screen, very, very happy! The sound is likewise a huge upgrade, everything so clear and balanced. Then the updated FX, are very well done. The onscreen readout on the liberator display is well thought out and in keeping, it blends perfectly. The actual docking sequence in this episode is in no way jarring, is in keeping and improves the tension of the scene rather than adding SF for the sake of it. The good thing is we get cleaned up version of the original SF, which was pretty decent in this scene for budget/period, so we can appreciate that too. Even the drawn picture liberator shots look great cleaned up. There is joy in watching both versions. It’s evident a lot of thought has gone into the updated FX, with clear parameters and goals, of what to achieve, so far it’s been a revelation! Those are my initial thoughts, can’t wait to dive in properly and explore all the episodes and bonus features. |
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| Joe Dredd |
Posted on 12-11-2024 22:50
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VFX showcase video from BBC Studios |
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| Joe Dredd |
Posted on 13-11-2024 04:57
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Hooray! My copy is down safe! |
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| Paula |
Posted on 13-11-2024 21:21
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Hearing all the glowing reviews of this new offering I think we need to think seriously about getting the disc set and a Blu-Ray player.
Resist the Host
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| Paula |
Posted on 18-11-2024 20:32
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Is this thread still open? I keep replying but my replies disappear. This thread is still open. Please try again. |
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| Frankymole3 |
Posted on 22-11-2024 03:05
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| SupremeCommanderDiane |
Posted on 23-11-2024 14:00
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Is this thread still open? I keep replying but my replies disappear. This thread is still open. Please try again. Trying again... It seems whatever glitch was happening to your posts is now resolved as your post has appeared just fine. The website sometimes seems to have a mind of its own - Federation sabotage perhaps! Please let us know if you notice any further problems. |
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| LM1 |
Posted on 30-11-2024 01:58
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I got my copy and i`m loving this nostalgia trip!. I wonder how long we'll have to wait for the rest of the seasons?. The blu ray is great my ony minor gripes is that it lingers a bit too much on booting for an audio menu instead of the usual menu and that the default viewing is with new effects off which requires going to into the special features to turn it on. Edited by LM1 on 01-12-2024 00:43 |
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| LM1 |
Posted on 01-12-2024 00:46
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How do the new FX look like in the context of an episode? I do a fair bit of amateur effects work in my spare time. I’m by no means as talented as the team behind these, but if it was me I’d probably have taken the resolution down to SD, then upscaled to make it look more sympathetic to the surrounding VT footage, or I’d have put a film grain filter over the new footage and made them look like film inserts. But this is just my personal taste and I don’t want to detract from the excellent work that’s gone into this. They really do look fantastic as is! The quality of the restoration is first class. The episodes have never looked or sounded better than this. Roll on series 2 (or B!) Absolutely agree with you on this. Some film grain would have been more fitting. The effects are tasteful but you can tell they look in a different era quality wise. |
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| Htershane |
Posted on 04-01-2025 03:07
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Love love love this. Can’t believe how brilliant the episodes look in comparison to the dvds and streaming options. I collect the Doctor Who sets as well and, for me, they are the gold standard of what media releases like this should be and thankfully this set is up to that standard, with the amazing restoration work, fx, special features etc. Having seen the originals so many times I went straight down the new fx route, sitting in the dark when those slightly tweaked opening titles of “The Way Back” kicked in blew me away, it took me a several rewatches of that before I could get into the the actual story :-) One thing I did note is the conspicuous lack of Darrow on the extras, hopefully it’s not a rights thing and won’t be an issue on future releases (which can’t come soon enough). Edited by Htershane on 04-01-2025 03:14 |
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| OracVZen |
Posted on 15-01-2025 16:28
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 Alpha Grade  Posts: 11364 Joined: 18.01.22 |
Hiya,I'm trying to get a discount code,does any still work for HMV, my daughter gave me a £10 voucher too? Cheers OVZ I plan to live forever,or die trying.
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| SupremeCommanderDiane |
Posted on 20-01-2025 15:14
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Hiya,I'm trying to get a discount code,does any still work for HMV, my daughter gave me a £10 voucher too? Cheers OVZ As far as I know the code they gave me which is on my original post still works - give it a try and see what happens |
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| OracVZen |
Posted on 21-01-2025 17:17
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Alpha Grade Posts: 11364 Joined: 18.01.22 |
SupremeCommanderDiane wrote: ↑ Hiya,I'm trying to get a discount code,does any still work for HMV, my daughter gave me a £10 voucher too? Cheers OVZ As far as I know the code they gave me which is on my original post still works - give it a try and see what happens Hello supreme commander, I did try it keeps saying not working. But thank you I plan to live forever,or die trying.
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| OracVZen |
Posted on 23-01-2025 20:24
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SupremeCommanderDiane wrote: ↑ Hiya,I'm trying to get a discount code,does any still work for HMV, my daughter gave me a £10 voucher too? Cheers OVZ As far as I know the code they gave me which is on my original post still works - give it a try and see what happens Hiya Diane , code is saying “sorry this is for customers who haven’t shopped with us before” Ovz I plan to live forever,or die trying.
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| OracVZen |
Posted on 08-02-2025 21:59
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Alpha Grade Posts: 11364 Joined: 18.01.22 |
Got my blu ray today on episode 3 already lol
I plan to live forever,or die trying.
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| OracVZen |
Posted on 08-02-2025 23:16
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I'm up to Time Squad so far picture is mostly better, outdoor shots same as original dvd. IMHO. Question though it's in 4:3 format PAL (original) BBC Mine seems to be 4:3 (PAL) format. Is it in wide-screen? On 50 inch LG 4k TV Am I missing something? Cheers OVZ I plan to live forever,or die trying.
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| Htershane |
Posted on 14-02-2025 15:56
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4:3 is the correct format, it was transmitted that way. The special edition variants are sympathetic to the originals rather than a complete re-do so even though things like sfx shots and sound might be redone it’ll still be faithful to the broadcasts. I’m not sure if everything shot on film was available for remastering but certainly from what I’ve seen the one thing I do notice a definite improvement on is the location stuff. I watch on a 4k set-up which auto upscales but weirdly it looks much better when that function is disabled. Edited by Htershane on 14-02-2025 16:01 |
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| Paula |
Posted on 16-02-2025 20:21
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A bit late, but got there in the end. We got our Series One Blu-Ray Blake's 7 discs Friday and promptly ordered a Blu-Ray player, which we didn't have. Really looking forward to the new pristine episodes and all the extras! And eagerly awaiting Series 2.
Resist the Host
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| OracVZen |
Posted on 17-02-2025 11:20
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4:3 is the correct format, it was transmitted that way. The special edition variants are sympathetic to the originals rather than a complete re-do so even though things like sfx shots and sound might be redone it’ll still be faithful to the broadcasts. I’m not sure if everything shot on film was available for remastering but certainly from what I’ve seen the one thing I do notice a definite improvement on is the location stuff. I watch on a 4k set-up which auto upscales but weirdly it looks much better when that function is disabled. I knew it was in 4:3 I just thought It might have been reformed. I got on a 4k TV which upscales automatically, but In 4:3. I prefer in original format personally, only seen a few originals that look better in wide-screen, letterbox etc But thank Htershane you for the reply and answered OVZ I plan to live forever,or die trying.
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| Joe Dredd |
Posted on 28-02-2025 08:43
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S2 Blu-ray posts moved to dedicated thread: here. |
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