Great show - Shame about the quality.
It’s About Time this show was made available on DVD. It has never been aired on (Australian) TV for over forty years, so it was an absolute delight to able to watch this show again.
Unfortunately it looks like this DVD was produced by a non-professional company and does not look like it was “re-mastered”, looks like it was just transferred from film to DVD directly.
There is no Color grading at all so the picture color is very poor and in some shots the contrast is so high that the faces of Mac & Hec are orange. Color saturation (Chroma) was never fixed. (I checked them on all my’ oscilloscopes’)
In Episode 15, the “blue” sky in the opening theme song is White which indicates the brightness levels and contrast are all wrong.
Two episodes have the beginning of the theme show song cut-off. (Episode 10-Cave Movies and Episode 12-Love Me, Love My Gnook)
The sound levels for each episode are inconsistent, i.e: the sound level on some episodes are very low.
In episode 17-Which Doctor’s Witch, the opening theme song is “doubled” sounding like it’s in a drain pipe!
The DVD artwork on Disc three is very soft. Looks like I’m looking at it with prescription glasses on, and the DVD menus look rushed too. White letters on a yellow background doesn’t make it that easy to read at all.
Perhaps the “Master” was rushed and never properly tested/checked before it was ready for DVD duplication.
However, as this is such a rare television show, I guess this is the best we are ever going to get, so I’m grateful that there’s at least “a” version on DVD.
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