The Invisible Man (1975) - BR (all 13 episodes). Amazon reviews say it's not properly formatted (a 4x3 image stretched to 16x9) and the quality isn't that good - but the price was "right" at ~$8 shipped so I felt it was worth a chance, considering the DVDs reportedly have issues as well. Some reviewers say the AR can be corrected - just switch your set to 4x3 - something I do all the time as my equipment's set up so I can watch non-anamorphic WS DVDs using a "fit to width" function which gets the into a viewable format. Because of that I have to switch the sets AR so 4x3 product is actually 4x3 (or sometimes use the "fit to width" for faux WS depending on the show, usually those I'm not a stickler about OAR for, and how it was originally shot - i.e. with extra headroom so that "zoom" doesn't cut off heads, etc.)
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And... those "reviewers" don't have a clue. I've watched the pilot and 2 full episodes and sampled 4 or 5 others. *All* of them are in the proper AR with me setting my TV on 16x9 mode. I can't make the image stretch to fill the screen. So... I don't know what those people saw or how they have their equipment set up but whichever, it's wrong.
I thought there might be an issue with compression artifacts as they put the *entire* 13 episodes on a single disc. That's a longer pilot and 12 hour length shows. However, I saw no issues in the 3 episodes I've watched. Based on the times I've logged there are roughly 11 hours of content on that disc:
Pilot: 1:13:22
Episodes: 48:21, 48:19, with random samples of others in that same range.
I've read you can easily fit over 9 hours of HD video on a 50GB disc. This release seems to prove that's possible. I think it looks pretty good - certainly better than I'd expect a DVD to look. The only issues I noticed are all due to the film stock and it not being restored.
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And... those "reviewers" don't have a clue. I've watched the pilot and 2 full episodes and sampled 4 or 5 others. *All* of them are in the proper AR with me setting my TV on 16x9 mode. I can't make the image stretch to fill the screen. So... I don't know what those people saw or how they have their equipment set up but whichever, it's wrong.
I thought there might be an issue with compression artifacts as they put the *entire* 13 episodes on a single disc. That's a longer pilot and 12 hour length shows. However, I saw no issues in the 3 episodes I've watched. Based on the times I've logged there are roughly 11 hours of content on that disc:
Pilot: 1:13:22
Episodes: 48:21, 48:19, with random samples of others in that same range.
I've read you can easily fit over 9 hours of HD video on a 50GB disc. This release seems to prove that's possible. I think it looks pretty good - certainly better than I'd expect a DVD to look. The only issues I noticed are all due to the film stock and it not being restored.
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