Scott Kimball
Screenwriter
- Joined
- May 8, 2000
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I got Cheers season 4 yesterday and watched the first episode and my God the image quality is so bad that you cannot even imagine it! It’s quite embarrassing.To me, it appears very much in line with previous seasons. Not great by any stretch, but hardly embarassing. It's very much like other TV product from the 80's. It shows its age with some dust and scratches, has some grain (which I don't believe is necessarily a fault of the transfer), and is a bit soft from slight over processing.
The original elements are at fault for most of the defects, and I can't blame a studio for not going through the expense of any serious restoration for these old elements. It's just not feasible for most TV shows.
-Scott