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Thanks for checking, Nelson. I'm now pretty certain it's a problem that only affects the UK set (which is probably the one on sale throughout Europe). It's definitely missing dialogue. The computer says nothing between Spock's two questions. All you can hear are the sound effects.

I've been watching the UK Blu-ray release of season one. I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but the computer's dialogue is missing on the English 2.0 tracks on The Menagerie Part I. It's apparent in at least a couple of scenes, for example the scene where Spock is requesting...

You might want to get the UK edition of The Thing, which includes the extras missing from the American version (on a BD-50 disc). Quote:

I wonder if the 'jump' you're seeing is the result of having the film playing at its native 24 frames-per-second speed, rather than the 30 frames-per-second (using 3:2 pulldown) that all the previous NTSC home video and television screenings would have been?

Perhaps my review of the UK Manhunter DVDs might be of use?

Well, it's the one on WHV's trade information website, so I wouldn't hold your breath!

I've been QCing video for numerous clients (including major studios and national broadcasters) for many years, and would like to suggest one possibility that hasn't been mentioned: that the master failed its QC, but the client chose to release it anyway. It happens all the time!

Very pleased to see this getting some much-deserved TLC. I had the UK DVD for a short time, but it was a 4:3 transfer that looked terrible. I like that new cover, but would have rather had the great claw-coming-out-of-the-ground poster art.

Ah, apologies for that - I kept getting an error message from the board software saying that there was an error, and my post wouldn't go through.

Would you want to release an NTSC disc in a PAL territory, knowing that a proportion of your customers wouldn't be able to play it? Or, worse, that there'd be complaints from angry customers? Most large displays made in the last ten years can probably handle NTSC, but a lot of smaller sets...

Would you want to release an NTSC disc in a PAL territory, knowing that a proportion of your customers wouldn't be able to play it? Or, worse, that there'd be complaints from angry customers? Most large displays made in the last ten years can probably handle NTSC, but a lot of smaller sets...

Would you want to release an NTSC disc in a PAL territory, knowing that a proportion of your customers wouldn't be able to play it? Or, worse, that there'd be complaints from angry customers? Most large displays made in the last ten years can probably handle NTSC, but a lot of smaller sets...

Would you want to release an NTSC disc in a PAL territory, knowing that a proportion of your customers wouldn't be able to play it? Or, worse, that there'd be complaints from angry customers? Most large displays made in the last ten years can probably handle NTSC, but a lot of smaller sets...

Would you want to release an NTSC disc in a PAL territory, knowing that a proportion of your customers wouldn't be able to play it? Or, worse, that there'd be complaints from angry customers? Most large displays made in the last ten years can probably handle NTSC, but a lot of smaller sets...

I did say "almost all". Naturally there are exceptions.

Not all European TV sets can handle NTSC, so almost all European SD material (on DVD and Blu-ray) is PAL.

Damn! Did I miss the pre-announcement of the pre-announcement?

Equally, though, modern telecine techniques now allow for much more digital manipulation than they did ten years ago. It's certainly much easier now to do things like rescuing the colour from a faded negative, and the results can be astonishing.

If the extras on the UK disc are in standard definition, they'll be in PAL. I think it's unlikely that all the bonus features will be in HD - some of the documentaries being recycled, for example, are more than a decade old. Of course, if you have the existing R1 DVD, you'll have them on that.

Releasing a new DVD version of CONTACT alongside the new Blu-ray wouldn't be as smart a move as you seem to think. For a start, the new Blu-ray version doesn't seem to offer any bonus features that weren't available on the DVD versions (the isolated music track isn't on the US DVD, but it has...

"Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?"

It was two years before Spartacus was released on DVD, four years before Ben-Hur and Lawrence of Arabia came out, and six years into the format's life before King of Kings made its DVD début. Despite this, DVD seems to have done OK for itself, and I fully expect Blu-ray will follow suit, even...

Sorry, Paul. The only Blu-ray players I have access to at the moment are Region B only. I did look to see if there was a programme like DVDInfoPro that offered the same sort of options for Blu-ray (ie: reporting a disc's region coding), but haven't found one.

I've had a look at the UK disc, and was pleasantly surprised (especially considering some of the terrible, terrible DVD transfers the film's had). There are definitely some scenes where grain is very apparent, but others that look very nice indeed. It's certainly a considerable step-up from...

Some of it was filmed at Yasawa Islands, Fiji, according to IMDb. Hope that helps narrow it down!

That's sort of right. Digital restoration tools work by sampling a series of frames, and working out the various movement vectors of the objects in them. While it's true that you use information from one frame to fix another, the program works out the difference between the various frames...

Matte-line reduction was indeed one of the aims of the on-going restoration project (and it will be done digitally).

I didn't write one. It was sent for me to review for a magazine. By the time of my deadline, it had been pulled from the schedule.

They got as far as sending out review discs, because I've got one!

Sadly, that's completely untrue. The top twenty titles at any given time make up the vast majority of DVD sales.