Babylon 5 DVDs

[Abelard]

I thought I'd make a day of it and watch a bunch of Babylon 5 eps. I've hit "Shadow Dancing." That is, it's playing on my TV as I write this post. This ep is incredibly choppy, and that's after cleaning the DVD. I've almost completely missed the major battle of the ep and a chunk of Franklin's Walkabout. Some stretches are good, others are bad. It really depends. Now towards the end it's smooth sailing. I've had the DVDs for a few years now and every time I try to watch, the player skips some spots and plays others, never the same spots twice.

How do I fix this issue? Should I buy a blu-ray player just to buy the blu-ray version of this show? Has Warner Brothers ever issued some other fix?

 

[ebusinesstutor]

No blu-ray available for Babylon 5 but you can join a Facebook petition here:
https://www.facebook.com/Babylon5BluRayPetition

 

[Abelard]

S.O.B.s. Somehow, I was under the impression they were at least working on getting the the eps transferred to Blu-Ray. I 'liiked' that fb page instantly...

 

[Edward M. Grant]

S.O.B.s. Somehow, I was under the impression they were at least working on getting the the eps transferred to Blu-Ray. I 'liiked' that fb page instantly...

As I understand it, the big problem is that CG was all rendered at SD resolution. So they'd have to re-render the whole thing to HD for a Blu-Ray release. That's not impossible, but far from cheap.

Then they'd have to hope the 35mm negatives of the live-action footage haven't been eaten by rats again, unless they previously did an HD telecine.

 

[Abelard]

Hmmmmmm. Well if they ever do pull it off, I'll definitely buy 'em. Hope it looks good.