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Check out Debussy’s Nocturnes, particularly Nuages. Love what Goldsmith draws from there.

Agreed about Harve Bennett. He also saved The Six Million Dollar Man from the Glen Larson movies eight years earlier.

Tactic? What have they to gain?

Amazon seems to have taken it down w/o cancelling my preorder. Anyone else notice this?

Sadly, I’ve found that AV receivers are a bad choice for upscaling.

Excellent choices here. I would say that there are three distinct reasons to do the upgrade: 4K, HDR and WCG. 4K seems to be driving the large format focus in some of these choices; I would love to see some epics and classic IMAX in the format for that reason. Arguing that the absence of...

Not to mention the whole 1.0/1.5 garbage. I'd probably relent and get a DVD of the complete series, but 2 boxes of a one-season HD show in SD? I can only take so much. Since the French is 25fps I'm holding off on that release. Can't stand speedup. I'm sure Uni will just say "You see, no one...

I'm afraid that I can't reveal my source on that Andrew. I had a similar response to you when I heard it. Considering the fact that PAL has higher resolution than NTSC I'm sure that some will be disappointed. The new masters were NTSC, and they are indeed to be ported over, barring the kind of...

The Bionic shows are in the process of getting an R2 re-release based on the new masters. I'm given to understand that these will be NTSC sets: no PAL conversion. I sincerely hope that the opportunity is taken to fix some of these issues with the masters that have been much discussed here and...

Yes, it's not in the spec. While folks with 16x9 HD sets (most of us at this point) would be better served if they did an anamorphic squeeze and let us stretch it with our screen controls, folks with 4x3 sets by and large would be left with a squished image and nothing they could do about it...

Well, if the BCI used the same encodes, then I feel better. Curious to know if it was on a DVD-9 originally. With no bonus features, or anything other than 2 still menus, this may even have less per disc on it, if both are single layer releases. I much prefer BCI's art. The cover for this is the...

Perhaps this is unhelpful, but I dislike the notion of a purely numeric rating. It's one dimensional, and smacks of the "great chain of creation," with its linear vertical hierarchy. IQ numbers strike me as similarly deceptive. Movies, like people, are complex and may be transcendent in one...

Okay, so I've had a look. When you pop the disc in, you get a still menu with a choice to view all or select an episode, with another still menu when you choose the latter. Included are: "The Lights of Mystery Mountain" "Spots of the Leopard" "Fools Dare" "The Sound of Silence" "Rockhound's...

Well, with more recent shows (more recent than The Virginian, anyhow), there is a logic that the latest season is still semi-current. I don't agree (can't stand it when say a big movie star is credited as the star of a lackluster sequel rather than the iconic original), and I prefer watching...

Grr… well I have no right to be jealous, I got my freebie Complete Six Million Dollar Man due to my participation there. That's a big set! I just wasn't collecting classic TV yet at that point in '06. I'm getting this not only due to the low price, but also to support future releases. I may get...

Ahh, The Men From Shiloh! Lee Majors fans rejoice! A little odd to see season 9 jump the gun, but I understand the reasoning (good article at the link above). So season 8 will be the last out, then. Long wait for "No War For the Warrior."

Classic Media is putting this out this coming week. Seems to be a single, perhaps just the first episode? I've seen virtually no information on it. I missed the complete series release from BCI, which went out of business and now that set sells used for way beyond what I could afford to do. At...

A few years back I was going to buy one of the Lord of the Rings films from DD. I spent some time making sure I was selecting the widescreen SKU before pulling the trigger. I got the panned-and-scanned nonetheless. Sorry that others have also had bad experiences, but I'm loving the company...

Yep, a total redo would be needed. At least all the models have been recreated by fans over the years, and some even professionally by the team that did The Lost Tales. The DVDs were even worse than they needed to be, see here: How B5 Is Transferred to DVD A B5 trail balloon would do the show a...

Just to play the devil's advocate here, revenue minus cost = profit. Keeping the overhead low is pure gravy, and the marginal loss of fussy customers is unlikely to reach the level of the additional cost of doing a new scan and doing the work from that. Pride in workmanship is a stronger line of...

I've been waiting for this one, but I'll keep waiting until the price comes down, or my standard of living comes up. If I had to bet, I'd bet on the former.:rolleyes: Diehards with spare cash will go ahead with this as-is, but I can see I'm not the only one for whom the current price is a...

Well, I'm sorry to hear that about Ironside. Since you are still weighing it, I'll put in my vote for continuance. I appreciate your commitment in putting out these older shows. I absolutely agree with the above that the economy has skewed the picture for all consumer purchasing for the time...

I would also like to see this film on Blu ray, or at least remastered. The comments in the thread make clear that this film has never received a proper release. There is a very short list of classic science fiction films of this significance. A no-brainer IMHO.

Well, June is well past now, so either Shout! is kicking this down the road or they've had second thoughts. On the up side, Season 8 (the show's last) has been announced in R4. Would love to see this show get finished in the States (can't stand the PAL speedup) but at least it will be finished...

Just wanted to post my impressions on Death of a Gunfighter. This was released in Spain as a "real" DVD; I can't stand PAL speedup, so this is preferable to me, particularly in this case as the score by Oliver Nelson was a prime motivator for the purchase. The DVD has no menu, the movie...

Some minor quibbles with stuff upthread: The original Season 1 opening was used for the first 3 episodes, "Welcome Home, Jaime," "Welcome Home, Jaime, Part II" and "Angel of Mercy." The show had a short break at that point (Lindsay had been in a car accident) and when the show returned for "A...

Yes, I would have bought Longstreet in Japan long ago were it priced for mere mortals. I bought the Mexican "El Hombre Nuclear" for 90 bucks, so it's not like I don't do retail!! I'm sure that the '08 vault fire was devastating. I saw the smoke; it was no small thing. This wouldn't have hurt...

Quote: I am unhappy about the above problems, and we made this clear at that time. Time-Life claims to have rejected some masters on the basis of quality during the process, and no elements in the SMDM sets have scenes with dialog that is impossible to decipher without closed captioning...

After a certain point even loyalty to the shows has to abide certain basic standards. Universal is disdaining available audio to patch these problems, and it's well known among the fans due to the long reliance on R2 and other foreign releases in the years preceding. The set is not priced as...

So much for putting the good thought on it. Universal's reputation is intact. The elements do exist for an acceptable release, even if PAL elements have to be slowed back down to patch these parts. They do have an NTSC master of "The Return of Bigfoot, Part II" in it's SMDM incarnation, with...