eugimon Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 (edited) My normal DVDs are like that. Especially in the beginning of the miniseries as you mentioned. yeah, I know. That's no excuse though. If I just wanted 1080p, I could have have just upconverted my SD set. I thought that they would fix the sloppy encode from the SD set, but no. oh lord, disc 2 has audio/video synch issues. it's about .25 seconds off Edited December 13, 2007 by eugimon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myk Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Laaaame. I hope they're happy they rushed this set out in time for X-mas... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 I really hope 12 year old boys don't have an ass like Grace Park's. Great let's make a perfectly good thread NSFW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myk Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Just re-watched "Hand of God," for the hell of it. It was awesome watching Apollo fly his Viper through the tunnel and out onto the Cylon base and then blowing it, a great episode all in all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoveringCheesecake Posted December 13, 2007 Author Share Posted December 13, 2007 (edited) Just re-watched "Hand of God," for the hell of it. It was awesome watching Apollo fly his Viper through the tunnel and out onto the Cylon base and then blowing it, a great episode all in all... In my opinion Season 1 is one of the greatest seasons I've seen on television, period. Every episode was solid, and you cannot beat the cliffhanger of episode 13. Edited December 13, 2007 by meh_cd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobywan Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 The film grain in Galactica is added in post. The series is shot with HD digital cameras. The Miniseries video quality isn't quite as nice as the rest of the seasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eugimon Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 doesn't matter, the transfer is still an inconsistent mess. The level of screen noise can jump and disapear in the same scene. I'm not talking about day shots to indoor shots here.. I'm talking in adama's room, one second he looks like he has army ants crawling all over his uniform, the next second you can count the number of stitches on his color. And nothing excuses the audio/video synch problems on the 2nd disc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myk Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Sounds like you're saying that the standard definition set is just as good as the 'HD set then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eugimon Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 (edited) Sounds like you're saying that the standard definition set is just as good as the 'HD set then? well, once you get into season 1, things quiet down, the transfer is cleaner and haven't noticed synch issues. But it's still not a clean transfer by any means. For example, in the opening shot of the 2nd episode where Sharon is sitting and the water is dripping and pooling around her, each time a drop falls into the pool, the water just fractures into a mess of pixelated boxes... it doesn't look anything like rippling water. If you compare it to something like the heroes HD DVD set, you'll be disapointed. So... mixed bag... if you have the SD set... think twice about upgrading, little improvement but some of the visual effects shots DO look better. Galactica's "ribs" and armor plating are much better defined and protray that flying buttress feel much better, the ships in general look better and the shot of caprica's atmosphere as the nukes are going off is just amazing. the True HD Audio is reallywell done (when synched proper). If you don't have the SD set, go ahead and get the HD-DVD set Edited December 14, 2007 by eugimon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big F Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Well no HD for me then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatalist Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Still waiting for my larger scale Viper toys!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uxi Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 The first HDDVD I bought in a long while (well since Transformers a few weeks ago) and boy am I disapointed. The BSG set really shows the limitations of the HDDVD format that would not have affected, say... a Blu-ray version. This set shows the 3 items that are all bandwidth intensive: 16:9, lossless audio, and PiP. Further the regular Dolby Digital soundtrack (for those of you without HDMI receivers) was gimped down to 384k, which shows how bandwidth. And I can't begin to vent at how the packaging left some scratches. Everything has played pretty good on my 360 add-on except Disc 5, which is a stuttering mess.... :mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobywan Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Still waiting for my larger scale Viper toys!! You'll be waiting forever mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eugimon Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 returned the hd-dvd set today to amazon for a refund. 3 out of 6 discs came with scratches and the 5th disc wouldn't play through correctly because of it. Other people are reporting the same thing and I think I'll just wait for a re-release. Can't believe I got yamato'd by a freaking DVD... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mog Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 ^^Correction: You got yamato'd by an HD-DVD. Damn new technology! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 Waiting for my Razor DVD to get arrive from Amazon, hope it gets here before Christmas. Dying to see it. Graham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myk Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 (edited) Hey Graham...Lady in Black? Edited December 19, 2007 by myk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 Yay! My Razor DVD arrived from Amazon yesterday. No time to watch it until the weekend though. Graham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myk Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 You'll enjoy it, I think. By the way, are you all caught up to season 3? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 Good question. Its been a while since I last saw any. IIRC, I think the last one I saw was where Starbuck vanished into the cloud chasing what may or may not have been a Raider. Sorry, memory is fuzzy. Am I up to speed? Graham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eugimon Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 Good question. Its been a while since I last saw any. IIRC, I think the last one I saw was where Starbuck vanished into the cloud chasing what may or may not have been a Raider. Sorry, memory is fuzzy. Am I up to speed? Graham no, there's a bunch of stuff after that. The baltar trial, and the revelation of a bunch of human/cylons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 Ah, I may have seen the Baltar trial. Gotta go back and rewatch what I have. Graham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Togo Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 Found this amusing. In the new Blade Runner DVD set, in one of the featurettes, Edward James Olmos is talking about whether Deckard is a "Cylon" or not, chuckles, then corrects himself (he meant Replicant). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the white drew carey Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 Found this amusing. In the new Blade Runner DVD set, in one of the featurettes, Edward James Olmos is talking about whether Deckard is a "Cylon" or not, chuckles, then corrects himself (he meant Replicant). That's cute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dobber Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 (edited) This doesn't look good http://tv.ign.com/articles/833/833633p2.html Also http://www.rondmoore.com/Site/Blog/Entries...tica_wraps.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From RDM himself... Quote: wrapped on episode 413 late last night, and there’s no certain date to resume shooting. No more scripts exist. My office staff has been laid off. My cast has been suspended, without pay. I refuse to believe that we won’t finish, that we won’t be back to film our final stories, but I know and accept there is that possibility. The strike will be a seminal event for many of us in this business as it’s put literally everything we care about in the balance (if only for a short time so far) for something we all believe is important. Writers talk a lot about the strike, about the reasons we’re out on the picket lines and our feelings and experiences in the business. It’s been an interesting three weeks. I’ve connected with more scribes in the last few weeks than in many months before and I come away from it to date with a sense of optimism about the solidarity of the membership and admiration for my peers. Galactica’s coming back, I frakking promise you that. But I am ready to put the rest of the story on the table and take the risk that I’ll never be able to tell it, in support of this strike. Like Adama says, you make your choices and then you live with them. Still. A helluva gamble.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This demonstrates another problem with releasing shows in widely spaced seasons or half seasons. I hated the way the seasons where so far apart. Having nothing to do with the Strike it just moved our favorite show so far back, that it is now falling victim to the strike. I too support the strike, I'm a union man myself....I just hate seeing something that I love, possibly being ended when it could've been seen through to the end if it wasn't dicked with so much in the first place. Chris Edited December 30, 2007 by Dobber Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azrael Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 This demonstrates another problem with releasing shows in widely spaced seasons or half seasons. I hated the way the seasons where so far apart. Having nothing to do with the Strike it just moved our favorite show so far back, that it is now falling victim to the strike. I too support the strike, I'm a union man myself....I just hate seeing something that I love, possibly being ended when it could've been seen through to the end if it wasn't dicked with so much in the first place. As I said before, I suspect SCIFI anticipated that an agreement would not be reached before the strike happened and covered their buns and pushed the season to 2008 to be sure it won't stop at the winter break nor just after the break. Lots of shows are gonna die by April. The strike has to work itself out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kung flu Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 Finally got to see season 3, I don't know about you guys, but I found it very boring most of the time I hope season 4 would be a big improvement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dobber Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 As I said before, I suspect SCIFI anticipated that an agreement would not be reached before the strike happened and covered their buns and pushed the season to 2008 to be sure it won't stop at the winter break nor just after the break. Lots of shows are gonna die by April. The strike has to work itself out. I was really refering to the show from s1-3. pretty long breaks between seasons all around. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myk Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 Finally got to see season 3, I don't know about you guys, but I found it very boring most of the time I hope season 4 would be a big improvement. Honestly, I don't even remember season 3 as it was so long ago-long enough for me to forget it anyway. If anyone shares your feelings about season 3 I'd say it was because the show is starting to "jump the shark," as they say. I mean, they're at the point in the story where they're out in space, headed towards Earth and there really isn't much more that you can do with the story except, well, get to Earth. Anything else in between that arrival, if it even happens, will be just filler-recycled material at best... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mog Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 I won't disagree that there were patches of Season 3 where the story really dragged (the love quadrangle anyone?). But those first few episodes of Season 3 absolutely rocked my socks off. Also, the look into life in the Cylon basestar and learning more about the inner workings of the Cylon culture were intriguing. And then, there was of course the season finale that pretty much turned almost everything on its head and set the table up for Season 4. As I said, I still have my issues with certain parts of the season (I still consider Helo's killing of the infected Cylons the worst plot contrivance of the entire series.), but I would easily say Season 3 holds its own against the other two seasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vermillion21 Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 I still consider Helo's killing of the infected Cylons the worst plot contrivance of the entire series. I agree, that was one of THE lamest episodes of the season .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myk Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 Oh yeah, I forgot about that episode... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crasis Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 Well, it's about frakkin' time! SEASON 3 DVD out March 25th! http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Battlesta...a-Season-3/8715 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dobber Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 About time! It took long enough!!! Thanks Crasis Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 Ordered my R2 season 3 a few days ago from amazon.co.uk. If I'd have known it was already out, I would have ordered it earlier. For some reason, I'd only been checking amazon.com, thinking the US would get it sooner. Graham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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