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cyberrich Site Admin
Joined: 05 Sep 2008 Posts: 1239 Location: Midlands, U.K.
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 9:17 am Post subject: |
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Mr S wrote: | After 3 and a half months, finally received my replacements today. After a quick spin, the audio seems fine. Looking forward to watching them, picture quality is stunning! |
Sounds promising! What do the rest of you think of version 2 of season 5 and 6? Rich. |
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Frankymole A Touch of Brimstone

Joined: 01 Sep 2008 Posts: 4452 Location: Carmadoc research establishment
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 11:34 am Post subject: |
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cyberrich wrote: | Mr S wrote: | After 3 and a half months, finally received my replacements today. After a quick spin, the audio seems fine. Looking forward to watching them, picture quality is stunning! |
Sounds promising! What do the rest of you think of version 2 of season 5 and 6? Rich. | Version 3, isn't it? Version 2 of Series 5 wasn't fixed, they brought out a set marked "V3". _________________ Last watched: Tunnel of Fear. |
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Alan A Touch of Brimstone

Joined: 01 Sep 2008 Posts: 2990 Location: The Edge of Avengerland
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 1:07 am Post subject: |
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It's worth pointing out that Optimum appear to have been completely consumed by Studio Canal now, so it's possible the old email addy is dead or at least no longer reliable (if it ever was).
See this page for updated details:
http://www.studiocanal.co.uk/Home/AboutUs _________________ Alan
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davidf Little Wonder
Joined: 05 Sep 2008 Posts: 100 Location: Avengerland Forever
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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 1:20 am Post subject: |
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Alan, I have a wrong Forget me Knot disc, is the old adress still good to resend, to do I need to contact studiocanal first? Thanks |
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Mr S Thingumajig

Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 55 Location: Castle De'Ath, Scotland
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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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I think you might be best to e-mail studio canal first (use Alan's link). You might need to do it a couple of times before they reply. Have you got the correct version of Legacy Of Death? Check it, if the picture "flashes" at the start of the episode, you need to get it changed too. |
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Thingumagij White Dwarf
Joined: 04 Nov 2011 Posts: 7 Location: Kent, England
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 2:19 pm Post subject: |
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I recieved a copy of Series 6 as a birthday present a couple of weeks ago via Amazon and it had both the speed issue (the Forget-Me-Knot) and the 'flashing' effect on 'Legacy Of Death'. I have e-mailed to see if I can still get replacements, but there really is no excuse for this faulty stock to still be on the market!! |
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Frankymole A Touch of Brimstone

Joined: 01 Sep 2008 Posts: 4452 Location: Carmadoc research establishment
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Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 12:10 am Post subject: |
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Thingumagij wrote: | I recieved a copy of Series 6 as a birthday present a couple of weeks ago via Amazon and it had both the speed issue (the Forget-Me-Knot) and the 'flashing' effect on 'Legacy Of Death'. I have e-mailed to see if I can still get replacements, but there really is no excuse for this faulty stock to still be on the market!! | Please let us know how you get on with an email reply. I have not changed my "Legacy of Death" disk yet. _________________ Last watched: Tunnel of Fear. |
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Thingumagij White Dwarf
Joined: 04 Nov 2011 Posts: 7 Location: Kent, England
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Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 1:58 am Post subject: |
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Received an e-mail this morning saying "sorry to hear of the problems...return the discs (no packaging) and we will send replacements etc".
THE AVENGERS
STUDIOCANAL
50 Marshall Street
London
W1F 9BQ
So a quick response to my e-mail from last night, will let you know how long it takes for them to arrive. |
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Frankymole A Touch of Brimstone

Joined: 01 Sep 2008 Posts: 4452 Location: Carmadoc research establishment
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 4:19 am Post subject: |
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Thingumagij wrote: | Received an e-mail this morning saying "sorry to hear of the problems...return the discs (no packaging) and we will send replacements etc".
THE AVENGERS
STUDIOCANAL
50 Marshall Street
London
W1F 9BQ
So a quick response to my e-mail from last night, will let you know how long it takes for them to arrive. |
Thanks.
It may be impossible to get a satisfactory replacement.
On another thread, norw27 reports that "hope I'm not opening up a can of worms but I have just received a copy of the complete box set (I had already purchased the individual sets but the completist in me wouldn't allow me to not save up and get the box set!) and the set looks lovely and I don't even have an issue with getting the discs out - however.....I have just tested to see if the issue on Legacy of Death had been sorted and although the picture no longer "flashes" it does seem to be an awful lot darker than previous, especially at the beginning, and it does somehow seem to have been inflicted with the sound speed up problems affecting Season 5 and The Forget-Me-Knot. Has anyone else noticed this? (I have made a comparison using clips from both sets"
The comparison clips. The speeded-up voice problem is there in all its glory.
Thank gawd I kept the Contender version.
Although the picture-flicker on the original Optimum/Canal release is annoying, it's far less annoying than the chipmunk voices.
I'm not sure if "Forget-Me-Knot" still has the problem. I presume not, since the sound speed-up was the only reported problem with that one. _________________ Last watched: Tunnel of Fear. |
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Thingumagij White Dwarf
Joined: 04 Nov 2011 Posts: 7 Location: Kent, England
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 4:54 am Post subject: |
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My replacement discs arrived today. 'Legacy' is much better and I don't detect the 'darkness' issue which has been previously reported, although the sound does sound slightly speeded-up. The Forget-Me-Knot' is fine.
The discs are marked V2.
A big thank you to StudioCanal for getting these out so quickly. |
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mousemeat A Touch of Brimstone
Joined: 04 Sep 2008 Posts: 4818 Location: Elvis Central, U.S.A.
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 1:17 pm Post subject: |
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Dandy Forsdyke wrote: | Darren, thanks for passing this info on which I've also read on Roobarb's.
It is such a relief that TPTB have acknowleged that this is an issue and they're doing something about it.
What, with stoney silence from Optimum and then even quarrels on Roobarb's that Avengers fans were now nitpicking, leading to infractions and temp. membership suspensions, I really thought that this was getting out of hand.
Sense has prevailed and I'll be ordering the complete box set + extra disc in the New Year. |
great that a company actuallyu cares about it's product..and serving the customer... |
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Frankymole A Touch of Brimstone

Joined: 01 Sep 2008 Posts: 4452 Location: Carmadoc research establishment
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Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 6:12 am Post subject: |
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Is "Legacy of Death" fixed on the German DVDs (http://declassified.theavengers.tv/wonders_de_dvd.htm) - or does it still have the "speeded up sound" problem?
Also, the replacement / fixed disks, according to The Avengers Declassified page about replacements, are "not part of an official replacement programme (unfortunately, the replacement disc introduces an audio pitch error)". Does this mean that Studio Canal have withdrawn the offer of "corrected" disks?
I'm inclined to just get the 50th Anniversary Box in order to finally have the Special Features Disk and a corrected "Forget-Me-Knot", and then have both (faulty) versions of "Legacy of Death" - at least I can still watch it on the old Contender disk.
But if the German set (or any other new version) has fixed sound and vision I'd prefer to get those! _________________ Last watched: Tunnel of Fear. |
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cyberrich Site Admin
Joined: 05 Sep 2008 Posts: 1239 Location: Midlands, U.K.
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 7:39 am Post subject: |
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I did return the 2 affected Tara discs a few months ago and received the V2 versions. Although there's been problems, Canal have been quite helpful. I'm still on series 4 so I haven't got as far as Tara with the dvds yet. I watched a few seconds of each V2 disc and they seemed fine. I didn't notice the high pitched sound on Legacy V2. How bad is it Is it all the way through I did notice the pitch problem on Forget me knot V1, the V2 Forget me knot seems perfect. Rich. |
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Frankymole A Touch of Brimstone

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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 1:21 am Post subject: |
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cyberrich wrote: | I did return the 2 affected Tara discs a few months ago and received the V2 versions. Although there's been problems, Canal have been quite helpful. I'm still on series 4 so I haven't got as far as Tara with the dvds yet. I watched a few seconds of each V2 disc and they seemed fine. I didn't notice the high pitched sound on Legacy V2. How bad is it Is it all the way through I did notice the pitch problem on Forget me knot V1, the V2 Forget me knot seems perfect. Rich. | As I understand it, the picture is now stabilised on Legacy V2, although a bit dark, but the sound has returned to the same pitch-shift as for the original version of season 5 disks, all the way through.
I've decided to buy the Complete box set so I will have both versions, better picture on one, better sound on the other. Maybe I'll find som way to combine them! _________________ Last watched: Tunnel of Fear. |
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Dandy Forsdyke Diabolical Mastermind

Joined: 01 Sep 2008 Posts: 5281 Location: Camberwick Green
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 8:45 am Post subject: |
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Not sure if this has been covered in this thread, but a member on Roobarb's has discovered more faults on the series 4 box set.
Please check these faults on your copies.
Audio on The Master Minds has been pitch corrected. The technique causes the audio to "blip" or "catch", at regular intervals. The problem is especially evident during sustained notes in musical passages. Witness the "catching", "clicking" effect in the music as Steed pulls up in his car and checks out the "trespassers will be prosecuted" sign around the 24-minute mark on the optimum disc, then go and check your contender disc - no "catching".
Audio throughout A Touch of Brimstone, Murder Market and (to a lesser extent) The House That Jack Built. Audio for all these episodes has been treated with so much noise reduction, every single music cue and line of dialogue sounds clipped, thin and too shrill. There's the "warble". Throughout the episodes, the audio warbles, or flanges, fluttering about as if someone tried to mix it to faux-stereo. _________________
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mousemeat A Touch of Brimstone
Joined: 04 Sep 2008 Posts: 4818 Location: Elvis Central, U.S.A.
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 9:59 am Post subject: |
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Dandy Forsdyke wrote: | Not sure if this has been covered in this thread, but a member on Roobarb's has discovered more faults on the series 4 box set.
Please check these faults on your copies.
Audio on The Master Minds has been pitch corrected. The technique causes the audio to "blip" or "catch", at regular intervals. The problem is especially evident during sustained notes in musical passages. Witness the "catching", "clicking" effect in the music as Steed pulls up in his car and checks out the "trespassers will be prosecuted" sign around the 24-minute mark on the optimum disc, then go and check your contender disc - no "catching".
Audio throughout A Touch of Brimstone, Murder Market and (to a lesser extent) The House That Jack Built. Audio for all these episodes has been treated with so much noise reduction, every single music cue and line of dialogue sounds clipped, thin and too shrill. There's the "warble". Throughout the episodes, the audio warbles, or flanges, fluttering about as if someone tried to mix it to faux-stereo. |
problems....that need to be avoided....problem being the 'masters' usually have some/lots of damage... |
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Alan A Touch of Brimstone

Joined: 01 Sep 2008 Posts: 2990 Location: The Edge of Avengerland
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 10:43 am Post subject: |
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It's nothing to do with the masters, it's hamfisted restoration. _________________ Alan
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dissolute The Ministry

Joined: 04 Sep 2008 Posts: 2084 Location: Sydney, Australia
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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Dandy Forsdyke wrote: | Not sure if this has been covered in this thread, but a member on Roobarb's has discovered more faults on the series 4 box set.
Please check these faults on your copies.
Audio on The Master Minds has been pitch corrected. The technique causes the audio to "blip" or "catch", at regular intervals. The problem is especially evident during sustained notes in musical passages. Witness the "catching", "clicking" effect in the music as Steed pulls up in his car and checks out the "trespassers will be prosecuted" sign around the 24-minute mark on the optimum disc, then go and check your contender disc - no "catching".
Audio throughout A Touch of Brimstone, Murder Market and (to a lesser extent) The House That Jack Built. Audio for all these episodes has been treated with so much noise reduction, every single music cue and line of dialogue sounds clipped, thin and too shrill. There's the "warble". Throughout the episodes, the audio warbles, or flanges, fluttering about as if someone tried to mix it to faux-stereo. |
My Compete Set copies seem to be fine - compared to the A&E, I don't have the Contender dvds for that series. No noticeable clicking or thin audio on Disc 1 (Murder Market/Master Minds). The picture is sooo much better, it's amazing I ever put up with the horrible interlaced pictures of the A&E set - interestingly, the A&E are much lower resolution as well, are the optimum dvds in a newer dvd standard format?
EDIT: Answer that myself, Optimum is higher res - standard PAL though, but the better contrast ratio, lack of interlacing and tighter compression settings make the picture tons better, audio is higher quality as well:
A&E
video - 720x480 60fps 3000-6000kbs VBR 4:2:0 YUV NTSC interlaced
audio - 48000 Hz 224kbs AC3
Optimum
video - 720x576 50fps 2500-6000kbs VBR 4:2:0 YUV PAL
audio - 48000Hz 256kbs AC3
Makes me wonder what a 1080p bluray (or even next generation 4K UHD or 8K UHD!) would be like... 1080p is 6 times more information that NTSC DVD & 5 times PAL DVD, 4K is 4 times 1080p - 8.3 megapixels, same as cinema film (but not VistaVision, which is a bit higher) - and 8K is 16 times 1080p. _________________ Mrs Peel, you're needed!
http://www.dissolute.com.au/the-avengers-tv-series/
Every episode from 1961 to 1977 plus more trivia than you can shake a brolly at. |
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Frankymole A Touch of Brimstone

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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 5:57 am Post subject: |
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Dandy Forsdyke wrote: | Not sure if this has been covered in this thread, but a member on Roobarb's has discovered more faults on the series 4 box set.
Please check these faults on your copies.
Audio on The Master Minds has been pitch corrected. The technique causes the audio to "blip" or "catch", at regular intervals. The problem is especially evident during sustained notes in musical passages. Witness the "catching", "clicking" effect in the music as Steed pulls up in his car and checks out the "trespassers will be prosecuted" sign around the 24-minute mark on the optimum disc, then go and check your contender disc - no "catching".
Audio throughout A Touch of Brimstone, Murder Market and (to a lesser extent) The House That Jack Built. Audio for all these episodes has been treated with so much noise reduction, every single music cue and line of dialogue sounds clipped, thin and too shrill. There's the "warble". Throughout the episodes, the audio warbles, or flanges, fluttering about as if someone tried to mix it to faux-stereo. | Thanks, Dandy. I'll probably check out "The Murder Market" tonight, it's always been one of my favourite episodes, but while I've been concentrating on Tara and New Avengers I haven't seen many of the Emma B&W episodes.
It could be that I don't notice these things unless I'm looking out for them. Visual errors like the pulsating gamma on "Legacy of Death" usually jump out at me more, I think I'm visually-orientated. But sound synch errors always look dreadful to me, however small, so I'm glad I kept my Contenders for "A Sense of History".
I've never been keen on "A Touch of Brimstone" and I can take or leave "The House That Jack Built". If it bothers me too much then I'll rip the visuals and edit the sound on from the Contender ones to burn a new DVD.
I do notice the noise reduction in "clipped" speech on many of the other filmed episodes, but I'm not sure yet whether it bothers me enough to do the same for them. Another Roobarb's poster mentioned that NR on a Cathy season made it almost unintelligible but it seems okay to me compared to the muffled versions we had before. _________________ Last watched: Tunnel of Fear. |
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Frankymole A Touch of Brimstone

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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 6:00 am Post subject: |
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dissolute wrote: | interestingly, the A&E are much lower resolution as well, are the optimum dvds in a newer dvd standard format?
EDIT: Answer that myself, Optimum is higher res - standard PAL though, but the better contrast ratio, lack of interlacing and tighter compression settings make the picture tons better, audio is higher quality as well:
A&E
video - 720x480 60fps 3000-6000kbs VBR 4:2:0 YUV NTSC interlaced
audio - 48000 Hz 224kbs AC3
Optimum
video - 720x576 50fps 2500-6000kbs VBR 4:2:0 YUV PAL
audio - 48000Hz 256kbs AC3
| Yes, NTSC is always much lower resolution than PAL. Horrible! _________________ Last watched: Tunnel of Fear. |
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