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<blockquote data-quote="Matthew Blaisdel" data-source="post: 443863" data-attributes="member: 26">Thank you! <img src="http://yoursmiles.org/msmile/girls/m04127.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":spinning:" title="Spinning&nbsp; &nbsp; :spinning:" data-shortname=":spinning:" />Somehow i really HOPE it&#039;s just a bootleg. As i ordered it via ebay,&nbsp; i&#039;ll lust claim back my money from paypal and that&#039;s it.But if THIS really IS the US release...&nbsp; then it&#039;s ... like i said ...&nbsp; waaaaaay below the German picture quality release, like 80% compressed DOWN in picture quality.It isn&#039;t even possible to make a single episodic-screenshot of this release without MASSIVE compression artifacts. It&#039;s just 35 or 40% of the size of the German released files per episode.&nbsp; <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />And even the German set is not perfect, it&#039;s just ... acceptable. The speed is 4% too fast (because of PAL-speedup) and it&#039;s partly cut ..&nbsp; some episodes are missing some scenes, so the German release is NOT complete!&nbsp;&nbsp; That&#039;s why I wanted the US set... to have THE COLBYS complete and in it&#039;s correct speed!I&#039;ve seen way better DVD releases of 80s TV-Shows in Germany&nbsp; than that, for example with Dallas Seasons 5-7 or Knight Rider or Robin of Sherwood with Micheal Pread&nbsp; or TWIN PEAKS on DVD&nbsp; (to name another Paramount/CBS show) in Germany. Those really looked fantastic, despite being DVDs.So it&#039;s not a matter of the medium, it&#039;s a matter of the care that goes into a release and the source material. And - if you compare it to the German release - the source for THE COLBYS is clearly WAY BETTER&nbsp; from what got released on those Shout!-DVDs in the US - IF those DVDs that i got are legit.But are they?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Matthew Blaisdel, post: 443863, member: 26"] Thank you! :spinning: Somehow i really HOPE it's just a bootleg. As i ordered it via ebay, i'll lust claim back my money from paypal and that's it. But if THIS really IS the US release... then it's ... like i said ... waaaaaay below the German picture quality release, like 80% compressed DOWN in picture quality. It isn't even possible to make a single episodic-screenshot of this release without MASSIVE compression artifacts. It's just 35 or 40% of the size of the German released files per episode. :( And even the German set is not perfect, it's just ... acceptable. The speed is 4% too fast (because of PAL-speedup) and it's partly cut .. some episodes are missing some scenes, so the German release is NOT complete! That's why I wanted the US set... to have THE COLBYS complete and in it's correct speed! I've seen [I]wa[/I]y better DVD releases of 80s TV-Shows in Germany than that, for example with Dallas Seasons 5-7 or Knight Rider or Robin of Sherwood with Micheal Pread or TWIN PEAKS on DVD (to name another Paramount/CBS show) in Germany. Those really looked [B][SIZE=5]fantastic[/SIZE][/B], despite being DVDs. So it's not a matter of the medium, it's a matter of the care that goes into a release and the source material. And - if you compare it to the German release - the source for THE COLBYS is clearly [B][SIZE=5][B]WAY BETTER[/B][/SIZE][/B][SIZE=6][B] [/B][/SIZE]from what got released on those Shout!-DVDs in the US -[I][SIZE=5][B] IF[/B][/SIZE][/I][SIZE=5] t[/SIZE]hose DVDs that i got are legit. But are they? [/QUOTE]

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