Postby Bladez636 » Thu Nov 01, 2012 6:55 pm
(Shane @ Nov. 01 2012,12:40)QUOTEI think the french version looks good, but the contrast has been tweaked a fair bit, which saturates the image a little.There's no denying that it looks more detailed than the UK DVD, but they were stuffed way back in 1982 when the Japanese footage was converted to PAL. It's been cursed with a smeary video look ever since.For a dream blu-ray I'd still look to the Japanese film prints or negatives (If they even exist) as a source for a 4k remaster (Yeah, I know it'll never happen).Either way, i'd still take that quality over the inconsistent quality given for the English masters.Smeary, not to mention how inconsistent the footage quality is - most episodes are rusty looking but ones like Episode 2, 7 or 12 have overtones of blue or green - some, like Episode 6, 13 or 19 are overtly rusty looking.A Blu-Ray would be extremely unlikely - if it could turn out as nicely as "Thunderbirds" did (just w/o the cropping) then that would be great to see. But it's just a pipe dream. I don't care much for Blu-Ray either way