Mine look decent with my HDMI VCR/DVD recorder set-up.
Info on 2004 Original Series Clamshell box set.
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The Lost in Space complete series Blu-ray made a deliberate choice to soften the color saturation, compared to what we grew up seeing in syndication. They said they were going for the original artistic intention. That wouldn't have been my choice, but I can live with it, especially since the endless list of special features make it one of the best vintage series Blu-rays ever produced, and the DVD run of LIS was notoriously bad in image quality.
Naturally, though, I have grievances....
The "Penny Scream" looped into "There Were Giants in the Earth" and "The Hungry Sea" annoys me as it covers over the episodic music with a blast of Bernard Herrmann background score which was in the original pilot. This should have been on a separate sound track. This one really bothers me since the John Williams score in the latter episode is incredible and iconic. It's ruined by that three second bit.
The narration is missing from all of the episodes containing the "Sorry! Lost in Space Will Be Continues Two Weeks from Tonight!" cliffhangers.
Otherwise, though, it's an incredibly lovingly made release. Considering the Fox shows now fall under the Disney banner, we won't be seeing much attention to the legacy shows going forward, so enjoy whatcha got.
Totally agree. Its good to see a 3rd-party perspective on the relationship. So even if people think this episode is 'boring' its important in regards to Spock's character and the relationship between the big 3. They would easily sacrifice themselves for each other but not out of 'duty' as Spock would claim.
With the exception of two corrections made, yes.
I got one of the 40 volumes and I think it has an extra 10 seconds or something.
As far as I know, the two major issues which were corrected for the clamshell boxes were:
Music dropped from a scene in The Doomsday Machine was restored.
The end of the scene of Uhura's release from sick bay was restored to The Tholian Web.
Unless I missed something, which is always possible, the rest of the episodes are identical and content and print quality. There's a 5.1 surround sound track on the clamshells but it's barely different.
Music dropped from a scene in The Doomsday Machine was restored.
The end of the scene of Uhura's release from sick bay was restored to The Tholian Web.
Unless I missed something, which is always possible, the rest of the episodes are identical and content and print quality. There's a 5.1 surround sound track on the clamshells but it's barely different.
Do you remember The Doomsday Machine scene in question?
From what I recall with respect to The Doomsday Machine, the music wasn't dropped from the scene per se; somehow a different musical cue was used, and for the clamshell set they restored the original music cue.
Yes I have the Tholian Web No 32. Lucky me to get the one thats missing stuff. Still I've got the Clam Shells and the BluRays.
Actually, it was dropped. Right when Kirk stells Spock "I'm gonna ram 'er right down that thing's throat." They didn't put the Alexander Courage library cue in there ("Mr. Spock" from The Naked Time). So the dialog played out with no music.
The Menagerie Part 2 had different versions of two of the fade in cues, but they weren't restored on the stereo mixes to this day. But the "mono" mix on the blu ray is correct.
FTFY.
Another two I noticed recently...
In Mudd's Women when Eve storms out Kirk's quarters, the end of the cue is abrupt on the mono track on the blu ray, but is smoothly faded on the stereo track.
More significantly, when Kirk beams back aboard after Eve runs out the party, during the Captain's Log on the mono track the music is completely dropped for a few seconds, before abruptly coming back in.
In Mudd's Women when Eve storms out Kirk's quarters, the end of the cue is abrupt on the mono track on the blu ray, but is smoothly faded on the stereo track.
More significantly, when Kirk beams back aboard after Eve runs out the party, during the Captain's Log on the mono track the music is completely dropped for a few seconds, before abruptly coming back in.
We just watched that episode this week (it's the rerun for May 4, 1967). It's so good for the first two thirds, and so bad for the last third...
I sort of think the opposite.
The crew leering... Did they want to alienate their entire women audience?
Unless of course you are just talking about the music
Like others have said, I used to record Star Trek on VHS at slow speed to fit six episodes on a tape. This is how I recorded all of TNG, DS9 and Babylon 5 in their original run. By the time of VOY though, my enthusiasm was waning so I didn't record it or ENT.
I still had these tapes up until only 2 months ago last March. I had moved to a new house and left a lot of junk behind including all of my old video tapes since I had no use for them anymore. Before I sold my old house, I had all the junk completely cleared out and thrown into the dumpster including my home recorded ST videos.
You want an example of videotape lunacy? My brother in law is an audiophile and has a large collection of vinyl records. About 22 years ago, I went with him to visit a friend of his who was also an audiophile and media collector.
This guy had a garage with a loft the size of a small barn. The loft above the garage was about 40 by 20 feet with a vaulted ceiling and all four walls were solidly lined with shelves from the floor to above head height. The majority of these shelves were filled with vinyl records and hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of videotapes.
I would think some of these tapes were not necessarily music related but the guy specialized in collecting the rareest kinds of musical videos. Not MTV videos but rare concer videos. For example he had a lot of tapes of old '70s shows like In Concert, Midnight Special and Don Kirshner's rock concert. He even had very rare videos of European counterparts to these '70s concert shows.
I'm a fan of Pink Floyd and when they did a limited tour of The Wall back in 1980, I was certain they had video taped the concerts although none of it had ever been released. (Not back then anyway.)
So I asked the guy if he had a video of Pink Floyd performing The Wall in 1980. In anser, he went to a shelf, pulled out a videotape, popped it into a player and on his big screen TV, there was Pink Floy performing The Wall in 1980.
In this age of digital video, I wonder if this guy still has all those videos, I would imagine he digitized them.
Robert
I still had these tapes up until only 2 months ago last March. I had moved to a new house and left a lot of junk behind including all of my old video tapes since I had no use for them anymore. Before I sold my old house, I had all the junk completely cleared out and thrown into the dumpster including my home recorded ST videos.
You want an example of videotape lunacy? My brother in law is an audiophile and has a large collection of vinyl records. About 22 years ago, I went with him to visit a friend of his who was also an audiophile and media collector.
This guy had a garage with a loft the size of a small barn. The loft above the garage was about 40 by 20 feet with a vaulted ceiling and all four walls were solidly lined with shelves from the floor to above head height. The majority of these shelves were filled with vinyl records and hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of videotapes.
I would think some of these tapes were not necessarily music related but the guy specialized in collecting the rareest kinds of musical videos. Not MTV videos but rare concer videos. For example he had a lot of tapes of old '70s shows like In Concert, Midnight Special and Don Kirshner's rock concert. He even had very rare videos of European counterparts to these '70s concert shows.
I'm a fan of Pink Floyd and when they did a limited tour of The Wall back in 1980, I was certain they had video taped the concerts although none of it had ever been released. (Not back then anyway.)
So I asked the guy if he had a video of Pink Floyd performing The Wall in 1980. In anser, he went to a shelf, pulled out a videotape, popped it into a player and on his big screen TV, there was Pink Floy performing The Wall in 1980.
In this age of digital video, I wonder if this guy still has all those videos, I would imagine he digitized them.
Robert
Ugh, I hate hearing stories that end that way. I rescued a horde of tapes from my aunt and cousin who were planning on doing that with my uncle’s videotapes that weren’t home movies. He had a syndicated run of the original series from the late 80’s. I tired many times in the late 90’s and early 00’s to record the entire series but the advent of DVD made me abandon that daunting task. I hope in the future to do a vlog that displays Star Trek in its analog days, something I find myself drawn more to than watching the remastered versions.
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