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I sat down last night to watch 'Star Wars' (as it was when I first saw it back in '77) in full for the first time in years. First of all, I have to say that it looked and sounded beautiful, the best I've ever seen it. I was watching it as a film rather than looking for issues, and I didn't see...

The only thing that bugged me about this film was the ending, as it completely disregarded the continuity as established in the '20 years ago' flashback in Last Stand and at the end of Wolverine. Unless, of course, Xavier regained the use of his legs and made it up with Magneto in time for both...

I'd just like to be able to get these Ultimate Editions in the UK, where these films are made and the books they're based on written! Of course I could get the US versions, but I refuse to have anything called "Sorcerer's Stone", and I don't fancy bilingual Canadian versions either.

As Yoda might say, "needs second thread, it does not, hmm?".

Man, you do realise there's a perfectly good word 'with' that you could use instead of 'w/'?

Agreed that 24fps is the highly likely outcome. Personally I'm fine with that, as I'd rather have some dialogue slightly slowed than having other things sped up (not just dialogue but also music, particularly the theme music, which to my ear is at the right speed on the old region 1 DVDs (i.e...

Originally Posted by younger1968 [url=/forum/thread/299820/need-your-help-with-star-trek-original-series-season-3-blu-ray#post_3682279] Anyway, my favourite from season three has always been Elaan of Troyius. There's a pace and intensity (especially incidental music) that sets it apart from...

Not sure how we could have got so far into this thread without this:

Originally Posted by Nelson Au [url=/forum/thread/298736/best-of-star-trek-tng-blu-ray-set#post_3669144] "Jim, the Enterpise is 20 years old. We feel her day is over."

Quote: The key phrase in my post is "shot to be compatible with US television", in other words a decision was taken by the production team to shoot at 24p so that the final version would be compatible for the US TV system. Specifically for The Avengers, the programme was sold to the US for its...

I was referring to 24fps material. As you say, more recent hi-def (or in the case of Life on Mars, upconverted) TV programmes shot at 25p (or 50i and filmised) have either been slowed or standards-converted for Blu-ray. The Avengers and other shows of that era that were shot to be compatible...

Do we really need a second thread on this subject?

According to the the Digital Bits, it would seem so. Probably Q2 next year, I'd have thought.

Series 4 of The Avengers is the last black-and-white series, the first to be shot on film as opposed to videotape and the first series with Emma Peel (played by Diana Rigg, or Dame Diana Rigg as she is now). Like The Prisoner, this was produced on film at 24fps, so will almost certainly be...

Resurrecting a year-old thread isn't exactly the best of first posts on HTF, y'know.

Not true. The TV licence is used solely and specifically for funding broadcast television and radio, and the BBC's web presence (to the chagrin of competing commercial websites). Any restorations for DVD retail are funded from the budgets of the separate commercial company used to release and...

Considering this is for a time capsule, Doctor Who has to be in there.

The UK is on a different broadcast HD standard; 1080i50, so that there aren't issues with converting to (or simulcasting in) SD. As far as Blu-ray is concerned, though, UK film-originated discs are 1080p24 apart from (AIUI) very very few exceptions. I can't think of a reason why A&E wouldn't...

Ditto.

I have fond memories of Last Starfighter, coming as it did the summer after Return of the Jedi and in the same summer as Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. I remember being impressed at the time by the technological achievement of its all-CGI effects - at a time when the acronym didn't exist...

I would be amazed if this were anything other than 24fps. I'm not aware of any UK Blu-rays mastered at 25p where the film source was 24p - that's not to say there aren't any, but it's not a phenomenon I've come across so far.

They wouldn't have to pay royalty fees, but would the manufacturing process incur any extra costs to include HD DVD in the player? Differences in the laser and associated components, maybe?

Except this isn't official firmware, as discussed in the main Oppo BDP-83 thread (which I guess this'll be merged into shortly!). This will be a third party hack of the firmware, so the usual risks of it bricking your player apply, and as soon as Oppo release a new firmware you're reliant on it...

The R1 DVD boxed set of the Blackadders does indeed have the unedited Christmas Carol. I bought it for that very reason!

The older I get, the less I care about the packaging.

Sometimes I despair. You do realise that 2.35:1 films have been around for over 50 years, and that 16:9 televisions are a much more recent compromise to be able to show all manner of ratios? You're in a forum by and for people who think otherwise, and who think that seeing what the original...

Originally Posted by MielR [url=/forum/thread/291048/steve-sansweet-talks-bd-6-film-star-wars-and-more/60#post_3592328]

Not speculation; fact. Life on Mars in the UK was never in HD.

Originally Posted by LarryH [url=/forum/thread/291048/steve-sansweet-talks-bd-6-film-star-wars-and-more#post_3590821] Regardless of whether it's "several", "a few" or "a couple", it's good to know that the Blu-ray set of the six Star Wars films is in the pipeline. This has to be Lucasfilm's...