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post #121 of 130
12/11/11 at 8:09pm
From what I've been told, they are actually running the shows from off of the Timeless DVDs.
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post #122 of 130
12/12/11 at 8:21am
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From what I've been told, they are actually running the shows from off of the Timeless DVDs.

You'd think they could get access to the masters that TIMELESS made from the 16mm.
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post #123 of 130
12/12/11 at 8:55am
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You'd think they could get access to the masters that TIMELESS made from the 16mm.

A great many of the episodes on the set didn't come directly from 16mm but instead came from VHS tape transfers that were made from 16mm. Its too bad as now that Universal actually has an inventory, they could have likely been able to put together a set of episodes for Timeless for the series.
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post #124 of 130
12/12/11 at 10:52am
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AIts too bad as now that Universal actually has an inventory, they could have likely been able to put together a set of episodes for Timeless for the series.

What "inventory"? What are you talking about?
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post #125 of 130
12/13/11 at 4:02pm
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What "inventory"? What are you talking about?

What part of the word "inventory" is troubling you? It means that after the fire they finally took the time and went through their various warehouses and determined what elements they actually had on what shows, be it film prints or tapes.
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post #126 of 130
12/13/11 at 5:01pm
I bought the M-Squad set for $69 at Best Buy in 2009,. Just last week, I saw the same set runiing for just $12.99 at Mills' Fleet Farm in Oakdlae, MN ( east metro area of Minneapolis-St.Paul). I could have waited until now to buy that DVD set! That's all right!
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post #127 of 130
12/14/11 at 9:51am
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Originally Posted by Neil Brock View Post

A great many of the episodes on the set didn't come directly from 16mm but instead came from VHS tape transfers that were made from 16mm. Its too bad as now that Universal actually has an inventory, they could have likely been able to put together a set of episodes for Timeless for the series.

Yes, I know many of the episodes didn't come directly from 16mm prints - but the ones that did should have been made available for broadcast.
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post #128 of 130
12/16/11 at 10:39pm
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A great many of the episodes on the set didn't come directly from 16mm but instead came from VHS tape transfers that were made from 16mm. Its too bad as now that Universal actually has an inventory, they could have likely been able to put together a set of episodes for Timeless for the series.

Yes, I know many of the episodes didn't come directly from 16mm prints - but the ones that did should have been made available for broadcast.


I don't know the full details of the sale but Timeless had to acquire the 16mm prints themselves from collectors. ME-TV didn't buy the rights to run the series from TImeless, they got it from Universal and since Universal had never put anything together on the series for a syndication sale, all ME had access to was the DVD set.
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post #129 of 130
12/17/11 at 11:28am
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I don't know the full details of the sale but Timeless had to acquire the 16mm prints themselves from collectors. ME-TV didn't buy the rights to run the series from TImeless, they got it from Universal and since Universal had never put anything together on the series for a syndication sale, all ME had access to was the DVD set.

I know they got the rights from NBC-Universal.

What I meant was rather than broadcasting off of a set sourced from the DVDs (Good only knows how THAT must look with the the compression and stuff), why didn't they just go directly to timeless and arrange to make a set of masters from whatever quality (ha-ha) transfers from 16mm elements they had.
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post #130 of 130
12/18/11 at 10:56pm
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I know they got the rights from NBC-Universal.
What I meant was rather than broadcasting off of a set sourced from the DVDs (Good only knows how THAT must look with the the compression and stuff), why didn't they just go directly to timeless and arrange to make a set of masters from whatever quality (ha-ha) transfers from 16mm elements they had.

No idea but I can tell you that when the show started running, it was as much of a surprise to Timeless as it was to everybody else.
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