Thundercats DVDs - Are They Good?
I just grabbed all the official boxsets from eBay and Amazon, used. Under 75 for all 4 6 disc sets. Only had the bootlegs from wayy before these were issued. Never got through them all, quality was crap.
So, these things worth it? LMK! |
I'm curious about their quality too. Almost bought the first set the other day at Walmart (for only $20 too). After doing a little research on them, and now knowing what their original price was, I might go back and get it (assuming it's still there).
Although part of me would love to think that, due to the new show coming out, they would release a box set of the original show's DVD's, along with some sort of extra bonus that the original releases didn't have. |
I have all box sets and yes they are worth it and awesome. I bought them when they were first released in the early 2000s I am currently re-watching them now.
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The video quality on the releases is awful. Mainly due to the actual masters (supposedly) being destroyed. These were all transferred from VHS sources for the release. Small screen or non-HD sets it will look ok. But on my big HDTV it looks just terrible.
If Warner Bros. can ever find a decent quality source for the series, I will jump in on them. |
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These problems are all amplified on larger screen TV's. |
Okay I can work with that and I am sure you are right. However I think that they are more than worth it to get if you are a die hard ThunderCats or 80s cartoon fan in general. The fact that Tony got them all for under $75 is a good deal. That means he got 24 discs for less than $5 a piece when you break it down per disc....a steal and worth it.
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Well, since I've got a non-HD set, it doesn't sound like the quality issues will be as noticeable. I just hope it's still there by the time I get the chance to go again, lol. I'll be happy enough to own Thundercats on DVD anyways.
Just curious though, are the extra's worth watching? |
In my personal opinion the extras are just so so. I think they could have done more especially with the voice actors. I would have easily traded the Rembrants, the fans, and Rankin Bass stuff for some interviews with the voice actors. That is just me though.
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I agree with Joe Moore on this. Watching them via HDMI on an HDTV kind of shows the lack of remastering on the sets. Some epsiodes look very yellow even. It's worth it just to have the series, but don't expect anything as great as BCI's Filmation releases. (At least the Filmation ones I bought were all remastered, so I'm guessing the rest are too.)
The extras though? Really disappointing to me. Your mileage may vary. |
I've thought about eventually getting Season 1, Vol. 1 on DVD to start out with. Then, if I like it, I get the others. Although, I definitely get the DVD release with the first eight episodes in October.
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Anyword of Remastered releases on Bluray in the future?
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I think there's a chance we could see the original series on Blu-Ray, but they'll start putting out volumes of the new series on Blu-Ray before they go to the original.
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Blu-Ray is never going to happen. The DVD's had to be authored from VHS masters, which is why they are poor quality. The original film masters, for all intents and purposes, no longer exist.
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Sorry to bump an old thread, but I figured this would be better than starting a new thread just to ask a question.
I just got the Season 1 Volume 2 set, and noticed something odd. Disks nine and ten are all silver, rather than the blue Thundercats logo the other disks are. They still have the Thundercats logo toward the top, the big number on the one side, but also say "Rental Only-Not For Resale" toward the bottom. Is...this normal? |
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Strange. Perhaps it's just a manufacturing or shipping error.
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I'd take a picture...but I can't find my camera, lol... |
Finally got around to taking some pictures. In the week that I've had this DVD set I've watched all 32 of it's episodes and the special feature. The quality between the DVD's seems to be the same, and anything noticeable I've been able to chalk up to animation inconsistencies (like Lion-O's outfit looking less saturated and even more green at times, and some random blocks of color not being consistent, etc...). I'm happy with them, so I'll be keeping them. Still seems odd that they'd have a different printing to them.
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