There are umpteen versions, and sadly, I hear that he Blu-Ray is not as definitive as one might hope.
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I didn’t know they were on blu, honestly. I have some old “Goodtimes” DVDs (which I later discovered to have altered sound effects) and I downloaded them all from Internet Archive because I have a flash drive that looks like Superman, so I figured it’d be poetic to have them there. The Internet archive versions are pretty low quality, but unaltered AFAIK.
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Damn, I thought for sure someone here would know 😉.
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I didn’t know they were on blu, honestly. I have some old “Goodtimes” DVDs (which I later discovered to have altered sound effects) and I downloaded them all from Internet Archive because I have a flash drive that looks like Superman, so I figured it’d be poetic to have them there. The Internet archive versions are pretty low quality, but unaltered AFAIK.
Are there actual HD masters? Or are the ones on the Blu-rays just upscale SD?
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Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
Best overall: Warner standalone 2 disc release. WB remastered from highest generation available and includes extras. Sadly there are some audio glitches that were still not addressed for this second release.
Bosko Diamond collection: second best for PQ, generated from 35mm prints. Great overall with no errors but each feature has the release date stupidly superimposed on its opening.
Image DVD: early release that merely reissues their laserdisc transfer. The good news is that the mono is in PCM.
Currently there’s an old tread about working with these in the other preservations forum.
Best advice is go for the WB set which is dirt cheap on eBay. Then if so inclined get the Bosko. Also the WB transfer is on all the Superman film sets from 2006 onwards but lack the handful of fixes hey applied for the standalone reissue.
There is no word yet of an official HD release, and the folks at Warner Archive confirmed this for me.
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Best overall: Warner standalone 2 disc release.
Are these the same ones on the big BD boxed set?
WB remastered from highest generation available and includes extras. Sadly there are some audio glitches that were still not addressed for this second release.
I think they own the 35mm masters, though I can’t imagine that restoring them is high priority.
Bosko Diamond collection: second best for PQ, generated from 35mm prints. Great overall with no errors but each feature has the release date stupidly superimposed on its opening.
Image DVD: early release that merely reissues their laserdisc transfer. The good news is that the mono is in PCM.
I’ve never seen a DVD with PCM audio.
Currently there’s an old tread about working with these in the other preservation forums.
Link 😉?
Best advice is go for the WB set which is dirt cheap on eBay. Then if so inclined get the Bosko. Also the WB transfer is on all the Superman film sets from 2006 onwards but lack the handful of fixes hey applied for the standalone reissue.
There is no word yet of an official HD release, and the folks at Warner Archive confirmed this for me.
So they haven’t done any real HD masters, and the ones out there are just upscales?
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http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Superman-1941/id/15907
The WB transfer may or may not have been done in HD. The anthology versions DVD and BD are identical to the standalone release, but the standalone release fixed a couple of the errors.
There are actually a number of DVDs with PCM tracks but these are generally early on in the format’s lifespan as it was eventually decreed all DVDs would carry Dolby digital. A number of music related DVDs are PCM as well.
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https://www.youtube.com/c/DamnFoolIdealisticCrusader
http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Superman-1941/id/15907
The WB transfer may or may not have been done in HD. The anthology versions DVD and BD are identical to the standalone release, but the standalone release fixed a couple of the errors.
Which errors? It sounds like what we have now is the best we’re ever going to get.
There are actually a number of DVDs with PCM tracks but these are generally early on in the format’s lifespan as it was eventually decreed all DVDs would carry Dolby Digital.
I always assumed that was due to a space limitation.
A number of music related DVDs are PCM as well.
I do remember a few of those, I think those were if not common, at least not as hard to find.
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