BG movie coming to Blu-ray

peter noble · February 26th, 2013, 01:44 PM

Inside the Blood & Chrome packaging was this:

Reaper · February 26th, 2013, 07:32 PM

outstanding!!! about time!! how long will we have to wait for the entire series though

ray243 · March 8th, 2013, 02:13 AM

Are they going to remaster the special effects? Those effects will look pretty bad in HD.

monolith21 · March 9th, 2013, 11:48 PM

I've heard that whether or not the series gets released on Bluray depends on how well the movie sells. Its the same crap they did with DVD all over again.

So everyone buy two copies. lol

martok2112 · March 10th, 2013, 11:48 AM

I would not mind having this on Blu-Ray, as long as they did indeed remaster the visual effects. (As was done for Star Trek The Next Generation for its blu-ray release). Otherwise, the movie will look horrible.

TwoBrainedCylon · March 23rd, 2013, 08:46 AM

Galactica is a series that would greatly benefit from the Trek rework treatment. Truthfully, I thought the Trek effects only went 1/2 as far as they should have. Some were good improvements but some were pretty fan film-ish, and not really quality fan film either. The cleanups of the prints were quite remarkable.

A sound remix would also be good. Even if they couldn't rework the tracks, some tricks with shifting the freqs and adding some sweetners would really bring the show to life.

All my best,

Russell

Punisher454 · March 23rd, 2013, 12:33 PM

100% agree with Russell.

peter noble · March 24th, 2013, 03:05 AM

Universal are open to digital effects for the old eps but not at the price they've been quoted.

TBH, I'd rather see a restoration like the TNG blu-rays.

Darrell Lawrence · March 24th, 2013, 08:21 AM

I'd be afraid of them re-doing the FX: They'd probably replace the "G" and Vipers with the nuBG versions.

Senmut · March 24th, 2013, 06:04 PM

Sadly likely. TOS all the way!

Charybdis · May 4th, 2013, 01:30 PM

Get your cubits ready. Just got word on this:

https://m.bestbuy.com/m/e/product/det...1&ci_src=11138

Right around the corner!!

Apolloisall · May 4th, 2013, 03:22 PM

I finally HAVE to get a BR player.....

martok2112 · May 4th, 2013, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Apolloisall

I finally HAVE to get a BR player.....

If you do, PlayStation 3 is the best way to go.

Apolloisall · May 4th, 2013, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by martok2112

If you do, PlayStation 3 is the best way to go.

LOL, I was thinking a $30 Wallyworld unit...

martok2112 · May 5th, 2013, 12:02 AM

LOL....well, you could go that route, but I've found some of those cheaper priced BR players to be a bit....unreliable...especially in the firmware upgrade department. But, you might luck out and find one at that price that does quite well.

peter noble · May 14th, 2013, 09:26 AM

https://www.aintitcool.com/node/62411

Apolloisall · May 14th, 2013, 09:32 AM

Thanks Peter!

borjis · May 14th, 2013, 02:29 PM

oops didn't see this thread. Mods feel free to delete the review I posted by itself.

The audio is perfect as it should be.

DTS-HDMA 2.1 with full SenSurround mix intact. (I wasn't expecting this at all)

Your blu-ray player will map it to a 5.1 system perfectly.

It's never looked this good. It's very sharp and clean, colors pop. There are occasional very small dust specs, but its way cleaner than the original DVD (non-anamorphic) release. Also the colors are much better. The original DVD had a green tint...this one looks perfect. The special f/x footage looks a lot better than I thought it would. John Dykstra was being too hard on himself when he got upset over the theatrical release not holding up on the big screen. The models look great at 1080P.

It's 1.85 matted, though on a 16x9 tv the very small black bars top and bottom are not seen.

Universal did a PERFECT job on this title. There is film grain. A bit moreso at times, but this is good,
it means they didn't do what many consider "screwing it up" by applying DNR.

Bestbuy has officially put it on backorder status as of this morning. (tons of people pre-ordered)
The facebook page has over 900,000 likes.

An insider said if it sells well, the series will very likely be done. I think thats a given now...

Apolloisall · May 14th, 2013, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by borjis

an insider said if it sells well, the series will very likely be done. I think thats a given now...

:p: YAHOO!

David Kerin · May 14th, 2013, 04:46 PM

Picked up a copy today, not expecting much in the way of picture improvement, and did it to show my support for the show. But now I'm glad I did! Popped it in the player and skimmed through, and the quality is much better than I expected it to me. Pic is sharp, colors vibrant, and not as many dirt and scratch marks as there is on the DVD. A decent job for the Blu-Ray release. The only times the grain really stands out (that I saw so far) is in some of the special effects shots, but considering how they composited effects in 1978 I can understand that. Though its not in every effects shot, but definitely in the clouds with the tankers. Other straight FX shots look fantastic!

Hopefully there will be more. I would even enjoy a TOS Trek style remaster (though that would cost Universal more $$$).

Apolloisall · May 14th, 2013, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by David Kerin

Pic is sharp, colors vibrant, and not as many dirt and scratch marks as there is on the DVD.

Excellent!

PaulGTweed · May 14th, 2013, 09:23 PM

I'm glad I have an LG 3D Monitor and a 3D Blu-Ray player. I hope to get a copy of Battlestar Galactica 1978 on Blu-Ray soon.

Lara · May 15th, 2013, 12:46 AM

No sign of it down here (as usual).

JBs helpful little tykes do want to sell me the 'totally awesome' complete series boxset in BluRay, complete with bonus Plan, but their computer won't recognise either '35th anniversary' or '1978/ 1979'.

Think it must be a millenium bug problem LOL!!

Cheers
Lara

Senmut · May 15th, 2013, 08:08 PM

The 7th Millenium?

Lara · May 15th, 2013, 08:48 PM

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The 7th Millenium?

AD or BCE ?

Cheers
Lara

martok2112 · May 15th, 2013, 11:27 PM

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Originally Posted by TwoBrainedCylon

Galactica is a series that would greatly benefit from the Trek rework treatment. Truthfully, I thought the Trek effects only went 1/2 as far as they should have. Some were good improvements but some were pretty fan film-ish, and not really quality fan film either. The cleanups of the prints were quite remarkable.

A sound remix would also be good. Even if they couldn't rework the tracks, some tricks with shifting the freqs and adding some sweetners would really bring the show to life.

All my best,

Russell

One of the hurdles with updating visual effects for dated shows is exactly the "dated" problem. It was pretty easy with Star Trek The Motion Picture when Robert Wise Productions made the Special Director's Edition for the 2000 DVD release. They wanted to make some of the updated effects look good, but not out of place in a film that was originally released in 1979.

It would probably be just as easy for Battlestar Galactica from 1978. They could update the effects (especially for the purposes of eliminating the stock footage in their space battles), and still make it look as if those effects came from 1978 instead of appearing to be a recent effort.

I imagine it was probably a bit harder to try and replicate the 1966-69 look of the original Star Trek in terms of updated effects. Most of the effects I really liked...especially in Balance of Terror.

Apolloisall · May 16th, 2013, 04:36 AM

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They could update the effects, and still make it look as if those effects came from 1978 instead of appearing to be a recent effort.

Didn't David Kerin already do that?

peter noble · May 16th, 2013, 05:07 AM

The EMMY AWARD winning effects on BG don't need updating, they just need recompositing in places just because we've got CGI doesn't mean they're going to make the show more palatable or 'improve' it in some way.

Apolloisall · May 16th, 2013, 05:17 AM

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Originally Posted by peter noble

The EMMY AWARD winning effects on BG don't need updating, they just need recompositing in places just because we've got CGI doesn't mean they're going to make the show more palatable or 'improve' it in some way.

Agreed, that's why I like what David did, he didn't so much change things as just expanded upon them, adding extra views of things & such. The original FX hold up fine, and I'm still amazed with what Dykstra & Co. were able to do in such a short time & with a limited budget.

martok2112 · May 16th, 2013, 05:28 AM

Agreed with both you guys.
I'm not talking about doing a "Star Wars Special Edition" treatment for BG.
What David did for BG, and what RWP did for ST:TMP is more of what I had in mind...but yes, simply recompositing the visual effects from the original negatives (if they can be found) would be a great approach, just like was done for ST"TNG on blu-ray.

Although it would still be nice to be able to eliminate a lot of the stock footage, and replace them with some more dynamic shots-- especially of that one Cylon Raider that keeps getting blown up in the upper right or left quadrant of the TV screen.