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What a great series! And what a nice surprise. We were given a quality image on Season 1 of Downton Abbey, albeit in its native 1080i, and an initially stuttering image on Season 2, which has been updated and is no longer problematic. I finally got a chance to pop Season 3 into an Oppo, wondering and hoping that the image would be of good quality. The nice surprise, at least to me, is that while the packaging for Season 3 had been prepped for 1080i, PBS and Carnival has taken what I consider to be a huge step, in preparing the release here in the Colonies, in 1080p! Matt actually beat me to this news in his review of Season 3 posted yesterday. We now have properly flowing imagery to go along with the rest of the package in this production that neatly offers extremely high quality along with popularity. Those are two things that one doesn't often see together. Nice to have the highest of all factors. [SIZE= 14px]Photographed, as last season, with Arri Alexas and Cooke and Angenieux optics, the images as finalized on Blu-ray are sharp and colorful, with beautiful blacks, shadow details, and everything that we're accustomed to seeing in the finest of 35mm cinematography. [/SIZE] [SIZE= 14px]For those who may be unaware Cooke optics are British, and of extremely high quality. The first examples go back to 1894, as originally designed by Cooke, and produced by Taylor & Hobson. They're now supplying some of the finest optics for the Alexa and the Red.[/SIZE] [SIZE= 14px]Angenieux arrived in 1935. By the 1950s and '60s they manufactured the creme de la creme of zooms for personal home movie cameras. If one desired the best optics attainable for Super 8 and 16mm world, Angenieux was the go to lens. Today, they make some of the finest optics, including zooms, in the professional arena.[/SIZE] [SIZE= 14px]Downton Abbey in 1080p is right up there with "Gable's back and Garson's got him!"[/SIZE] [SIZE= 14px]Very Highly Recommended.[/SIZE] [SIZE= 14px]RAH[/SIZE]