British TV thrillers: Traffik & State Of Play DVD picture quality? (1 Viewer)

[Bartman]

I've watched the US DVDs of Traffik & State Of Play (British TV series) from Netflix a couple of times. Neither series is available to stream & Netflix is no more, so it's time to buy before the DVDs go OOP. Has anyone compared the US & UK DVDs for picture quality & can comment? Thanks in advance!
P.S. Traffik has no Blu-ray & the State Of Play Blu-ray is an SD upscale.

 

[Lord Dalek]

PAL has slightly higher resolution than NTSC (576i vs 480i) so the R2 disc is going to look a little better. That being said, Traffik was made on 16mm and suffers any and all problems resulting from a late-80s early-90s telecine to 1" videotape transfer.

 

[Bartman]

PAL has slightly higher resolution than NTSC (576i vs 480i) so the R2 disc is going to look a little better. That being said, Traffik was made on 16mm and suffers any and all problems resulting from a late-80s early-90s telecine to 1" videotape transfer.

Thanks, 16mm can look OK. A bigger problem (for me) is the lack of Closed Captions (or subtitle options). I suppose the chance of Blu-rays is slim to none, pity.
P.S. I found a review of the remastered Traffik DVD. It offers no improvement in resolution & there's noticable boosting compared with the original DVD.

 

[Bartman]

Correction: State Of Play & Traffik 20th Anniv remaster DVDs have subtitles. The Traffik remaster is US only.