The A-Team Broadcast Restoration (Released) — Page 5

Baobab Archiver said:

lovekrallthetime said:

Baobab Archiver said:

Mexican Slayride now up in the usual place.
This was a tricky restoration and I’m not 100% happy with it, but will have to do unless a better source turns up.

Now to crack on with more of HD versions of the pre-credits teasers from season 3. Soul destroying but worth it in the end (well for me at least!)

I know sometimes they use scenes not in the episode…FYI.

Yes, that’s part of the challenge and why they take so long.
I use the HD source wherever it exists, and have to resort to upscaled DVD for the bits that don’t.
The real challenge is ensuring you don’t miss a part that actually exists in the episode 😃

Hey there might be season 2 and 3 teasers on this just available blu ray set. Plus if you watch the teaser posted its kind of cool 😃

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=343047

The teaser for the new set is at this url

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6_ikiTib9Y&t=91s

If anyone wants to take a gamble it might be worth it.

For those that want a review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCWt0CE1v_s&t=1508s

lovekrallthetime said:

For those that want a review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCWt0CE1v_s&t=1508s

Yeah I saw that review and it’s quite misleading - for example saying the UK set is Dolby Digital when it’s DTS-HD.

I’m sure at least one person somewhere has bought it but I’m guessing they don’t use this forum. Would be really good to know if it’s truly complete so I don’t waste my time on any more teasers!

Just to be clear I’ve only done half of season 3 so far. Season 2 will be next if still needed.

SpacemanDoug said:

Baobab Archiver said:

Well that is good news ☺️
I suppose the next question is, how familiar are you with the episodes to know if anything is now missing that was on the DVDs…
I know the Knight Rider set had some additional cuts on the Blu-ray that weren’t missing from the DVDs.

What exactly is missing on the Knight Rider BD sets that were on DVD?

To the best of my knowledge the John Cougar Mellencamp tracks on Give Me Liberty… and White Line Warriors were present on the DVDs but not the Blu-ray.

Beyond that I’m not sure if there was anything more.

Yes, sorry there was also Knight of the Drones in 2 parts rather than the movie. I forgot that as on the UK set which I have it is the full movie version.

That episode is missing Prince music track on the DVD but this is included on the UK Bluray (I would guess by accident).

It is also the episode that has the original credits unique to the story replaced by the standard s3 credits for all releases that have happened.

SpacemanDoug said:

Baobab Archiver said:

SpacemanDoug said:

Baobab Archiver said:

Well that is good news ☺️
I suppose the next question is, how familiar are you with the episodes to know if anything is now missing that was on the DVDs…
I know the Knight Rider set had some additional cuts on the Blu-ray that weren’t missing from the DVDs.

What exactly is missing on the Knight Rider BD sets that were on DVD?

To the best of my knowledge the John Cougar Mellencamp tracks on Give Me Liberty… and White Line Warriors were present on the DVDs but not the Blu-ray.

Beyond that I’m not sure if there was anything more.

Wasn’t there this episode where it was in its two part version that originally aired as a two hour episode despite it being the original two hour format on the old DVDs?

Looks like the french blu rays are missing pre credits on S2 and S3 and jumping jack flash from the pilot is not included and slightly trimmed a few seconds more

lorang said:

Looks like the french blu rays are missing pre credits on S2 and S3 and jumping jack flash from the pilot is not included and slightly trimmed a few seconds more

Thanks for clarifying. I’m not surprised, since I’m expecting they are all using the same HD masters. Interesting that there’s slightly more cut from the JJF scene though

Well this conversation has fired my interest again, so I’ve recommenced work on the trailers. Trying to remember my workflow (memory isn’t what it used to be!) but it’s coming back to me and I’m making notes this time lol

“Timber!” is in progress. Hopefully I’ll have all of season 3 done in a few months

SpacemanDoug said:
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=30648

holy shit, well I’m curious as to how these will turn out regarding edits previously made on the DVD releases

the teasers might still be missing though

Oh wow! In that case I’ll pause again after I finish Timber 😄
I will be pleasantly surprised if they have the teasers and it will be interesting to see if they have any music edits. Maybe even the Jumpin Jack Flash scene reinstated.
Question is, is anyone here going to buy it?! I can’t afford to pay for it again in the hope of it maybe being complete.
If it turns out it is then that’s a different matter

SpacemanDoug said:

Maybe the same masterings but similar in the case of Lee Harvey Oswald in Quantum Leap between the US and UK BDs it’ll be different content from the international releases

I can still keep track on forum sites if you want me to

That would be great thanks.The teasers take a few hours each to reconstruct so although I’m happy to keep doing them I don’t want to carry on if there’s no need.

SpacemanDoug said:

Baobab Archiver said:

SpacemanDoug said:

Maybe the same masterings but similar in the case of Lee Harvey Oswald in Quantum Leap between the US and UK BDs it’ll be different content from the international releases

I can still keep track on forum sites if you want me to

That would be great thanks.The teasers take a few hours each to reconstruct so although I’m happy to keep doing them I don’t want to carry on if there’s no need.

Considering that both the French and UK BDs are edited in different ways I’m curious as to how Universal themselves will handle this one

There is hope since they’ve eased off of music changes for quite some time now, just look at Quantum Leap for example, Universal had to have played a part in clearing all of the music on the Mill Creek sets, knowing how much of a budget company Mill Creek is

And A-Team doesn’t have nearly as much music anyway as far as I know

I’m not holding any hope with these, look at the HD remasters of Baywatch every single HD release is the horrible music replacement release that filtered down to every web and blu ray release and HD tv broadcast, the same has happened with the A Team every time they are shown in the UK now on HD they are the versions missing the teasers, what on earth is wrong with the teasers for S2 and S3 they where on some DVD releases but note not everyone.

I’m wondering if it has something to do with a fire that apparently happened at Universal some years ago. Apparently many film reels/spools were lost in that. Could it be that the copies that were scanned for HD are the only ones known to exist? Or is it just that they were being lazy and just took the first ones they came across without paying any attention to the content.

Baobab Archiver said:

I’m wondering if it has something to do with a fire that apparently happened at Universal some years ago. Apparently many film reels/spools were lost in that. Could it be that the copies that were scanned for HD are the only ones known to exist? Or is it just that they were being lazy and just took the first ones they came across without paying any attention to the content.

I would agree I know another tv show I liked “the Law and Harry Mcgraw” was lost in the fire and all they had was desaturated SD TV reels that Germany placed out on DVD and that is all that is left of the TV show, but the A team considering how famous it was around the world shouldn’t be down to us to recreate the teasers from the HD remasters, takes us several hours so really its just lazy of them, agreeded a couple of seconds of footage doesn’t appear in the episodes so maybe lost i.e. alternate takes, so if lost just replicate alternate scenes like I did for "harder than it looks’ only die hard fans would know.

I guess it’s one of those things where if no-one is really complaining to them then they won’t bother spending the time (i.e. money) doing it themselves.

I had a brief conversation on Facebook with someone who says the season 2 trailers were destroyed in the fire but I am not sure if that again is speculation or that they know for certain.

Just keep in touch. I will Amazon Prime the US set when it comes out. Makes no sense how the US DVD’s have the season 2 and 3 teasers intact (with some missing season 4) and the blu rays have the entire season 1 intact, missing season 2 and 3 and have the entire season 4 intact.

The quality of the UK release overall though is great. I’m enjoying rewatching the episodes…

Has anyone got hold of the US release on Blu-ray yet?

From what I’ve been hearing it seems the US Blu-ray set is using the same masters as the UK one did.

My mission to reconstruct the missing teasers in HD will resume shortly 😄

Baobab Archiver said:

From what I’ve been hearing it seems the US Blu-ray set is using the same masters as the UK one did.

My mission to reconstruct the missing teasers in HD will resume shortly 😄

Really is a shame, a lot of the streaming sites like Tubi have released the A Team recently and all are the HD releases with no teasers and replacement music, same with Hunter and greatest american hero, but at least I managed to track down with Hunter German DVD copies with English tracks full uncut with original music and Web rips of greatest american hero with original music and not altered all be it SD, I loved the teasers for the A Team as part of my childhood and dont seem the same without them.