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wibblewobble · Nutshell Joined: 31 Dec 2013 Posts: 12

Just did a comparison between my US series 5 BluRay and the new UK:

Picture is much sharper - less (or no?) noise reduction on the UK release. The US is much softer. Fabric details especially pop.

Here's one comparison. I'll try and do more later:

Beta · Nutshell Joined: 13 Sep 2014 Posts: 15

JohnSteedFr · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2015 4:42 pm Post subject:

The French sets (to series 4, 5, 6) are scheduled to be released all together on October 20th. The sets look like the English and German ones. Now the million pound question is: what will they do with the 'cut scenes', scenes that weren't in the previous French copies, will they add subtitles, dub them once again? I hope they won't use those cut prints again...I wouldn't be surprised. Laughing

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wibblewobble · Nutshell Joined: 31 Dec 2013 Posts: 12

peabody · Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 11:59 am Post subject:

Thanks for the screen grabs. Glad I waited for the UK release, which I received last week. Absolutely beautiful. Looks stunning in HD!

peabody · Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 12:08 pm Post subject:

One minor complaint about the set, though: I wish they could print out the disc number on the face of the disc itself. It would make things easier when you want to watch a particular episode. And one of the episodes are still called "Return of the Cybernaughts". Cool

DerekD · Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 12:02 am Post subject:

Yes, disk numbers would have been great as would an index of where the extras appear on each disk....

peabody · Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 11:53 am Post subject:

Hello, it's me again. Just watched "Who's Who???". What a terrific episode that one is! Thanks to the higher resolution I was able to see the label of the record Lola and Basil are dancing to in Steed's apartment. It says Mantovani and the date "7-11-57". Mantovani is hardly the kind of stuff you put on if you want to dance! Very Happy

There's also "BRITISH" and "CORP Ltd.", plus stuff that seems to have been crossed out with a black felt pen. I couldn't figure out the rest of the text, but the record itself seems to be one of those 16 inch transcription discs, often used by radio back in those days.

Back to the viewing!

dissolute · Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 5:39 pm Post subject:

MikeR · Epic Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 1106 Location: UK

peabody · Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 7:23 am Post subject:

dissolute · Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 11:26 pm Post subject:

Hmm, I can see it's a Mantovani collection with a hand-filled label, so almost certainly a studio special.

The other LPs on view in the episode are:

Africa Speaks, America Answers - Guy Warren with the Red Saunders Orchestra (1956)
http://www.discogs.com/Guy-Warren-with-Red-Saunders-Orchestra-The-Africa-Speaks-America-Answers/release/4250621

Ballads for Night People - June Christy (1959)
http://www.discogs.com/June-Christy-Ballads-For-Night-People/release/3819124

Hardly the most recent swinging Sixties hits!
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peabody · Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2015 8:57 am Post subject:

That Guy Warren LP is actually a real party album.

Check out this song from it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq_rzjzaIfM

I can imagine Basil and Lola (or Steed and Mrs Peel) dance to it! Cool

dissolute · Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2015 6:41 pm Post subject:

ikbtops · Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2015 10:07 am Post subject:

I have been having problems getting the discs to play consistently. Has anyone else experienced problems with loading or skipping? My other region B blu rays are fine on my player. I'm just trying to figure if the problem is my player or the discs.

peabody · Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2015 2:41 am Post subject:

No problems on my Oppo player. Is your player updated with the latest software?

ikbtops · Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2015 8:22 am Post subject:

It's a crappy Orei bdp M-2. It hasn't had an update since 3/14. I figured it was probably the player as I hadn't heard of any problems. I'll see if I can update it, or more than likely buy a new multi region player.

mariocki · Have Fingers... Will Type! Joined: 04 Sep 2008 Posts: 438

This is currently £51:44 at Amazon UK but for today only entering the code BIGTHANKS at the checkout gets you £10 off, making it £41:44 delivered in the UK.
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norw27 · Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2015 11:31 pm Post subject:

avenger54 · White Dwarf Joined: 20 Mar 2011 Posts: 6

Anyone noticed slight synchronisation problems on the episode Mission: Highly Improbable on the UK BD release? Or is it just me? Picture quality was rather disappointing for a BD too, I think.