All in the Family? Does blu-player help the awful transfer?

[Visitor2014]

Regarding the 2012 release of All in the Family in the box set:

I have seen some awful reviews from customers who bought this recent edition about the lack of transfer quality. I'd like to know if anyone has played the disks on a blu-ray player on a large HD set? Any good news?

(It appears some folks are still using a standard DVD player)

[PowellPressburger]

if people are in fact watching the DVDs thru a DVD player connected to a HD tv then the image will look worse then it really should.

Aside from that the image quality for a show taped, it won't ever look great. I don't own this box set. It is on my wishlist. I own the Shout sets for Maude, Mary Hartman, and The Jeffersons and I think those look great considering the videotaped format.

[Wezzo]

I've watched it on a BD player on a 40" HD set. It looks on a par with any other videotaped TV material from that era. As PowellPressburger said, there's inherent limitations with the format that mean it'll never look much better.

[hagios]

I hope this set turns out to be a good enough viewing experience for me as I ordered it recently
...along with all the seasons of The Dukes of Hazzard (I will be playing them on my blu-ray player always )
...thanks for the push from the left-wing idiocy(ideology)!

[slimdude]

Old TV shows I don't necessarily want on Blu-ray. The DVDs are good enough for me. I like the nostalgic look for the old TV shows, the way they appeared on network television back in the day.

[nikita70]

As I've posted before, there are many TV shows I'd buy on BD. Magnum, PI, Stargate SG-1 just to name a few. Thinking about buying this All in the Family set. It is CC? If so then I'll be buying at some point.

[Tns49]

Originally Posted by slimdude

Old TV shows I don't necessarily want on Blu-ray. The DVDs are good enough for me. I like the nostalgic look for the old TV shows, the way they appeared on network television back in the day.

Many older shows were still Filmed rather than videotaped. As such they can be rescanned for High Definition Blu-ray and may well look much better.

A few older TV series have been released this way including I Love Lucy (some seasons), The Honeymooners, Dick Van Dyke, Twilight Zone, Star Trek, Batman, The Avengers (season 5), etc.

DVD however is limited to what older TV pictures looked like. Perhaps slightly better than when original broadcast and perhaps not.

[chip75]

Originally Posted by PowellPressburger

if people are in fact watching the DVDs thru a DVD player connected to a HD tv then the image will look worse then it really should.

Why would it look any worse? If they're using composite cables then it's not going to look great, but a decent DVD player with component or HDMI outputs isn't going to look much different than using a BD player. It depends on how good the upscaling technology of the TV and player are.

I have a Toshiba DVD player with component leads and it looks great, the only issue is that you lose some picture with overscan, but that wouldn't be an issue with a HDMI DVD player.

[Tns49]

Originally Posted by chip75

Why would it look any worse? If they're using composite cables then it's not going to look great, but a decent DVD player with component or HDMI outputs isn't going to look much different than using a BD player. It depends on how good the upscaling technology of the TV and player are.

I have a Toshiba DVD player with component leads and it looks great, the only issue is that you lose some picture with overscan, but that wouldn't be an issue with a HDMI DVD player.

Some scans for TV shows are, for whatever reason, awful, poor, fair, etc. Depends on quality of the media they are taken from and care done in creating the final DVD. Some try to cram to much on a DVD. Even one show put on Blu-ray, "The Invisible Man", was a disaster because it crammed everything on one disk (see review https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-I...Blu-ray/32163/). On the otherhand many are well done.