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Originally Posted by Duane Dibbley
The UK DVD releases by Contender (aka "The Definitive Dossier") have the least tampered-with versions of the early 90s masters. The A&E DVDs have added DNR and the remastered DVDs (all countries) have the exact same issues as the BDs.
The Contender discs aren't perfect (for some of the B&W episodes, you'll need to turn the colour down to zero on your TV as they have a slight chroma hue to them), but they're my preferred option as they're still the most authentic representation of the show. Beautiful audio quality too, by any standard.
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Thank you for this!!! I've been scratching my head for years now trying to decipher how to piece together a complete set without video issues, edits and hopefully without speedup on the film episodes. I was afraid the remastered UK DVDs originated the HD masters.
So if I skipped the Blu-ray releases essentially I'd need:
-The A&E DVDs for normal speed on the film episodes though I believe they're missing all the tags and bumpers.
-The original UK DVDs you mention should be better made and encoded from the old VHS master source.
-The UK complete DVD set for all the newer extras and extra work done on the early series though with the heavy handed DNR it would likely negate the A/V improvements.
-The Tunnel of Fear DVD standalone
And that's without going into VHS editions to see if any iterations might have a possibly better audio presentation of the same old masters. Wow, you'd think at some point after all this time someone at a label would've done this correctly. I was toying around with possibly trying a PAL to NTSC conversion on some of The Saint episodes to see if I could get the better PQ without speedup.