Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour DVD discussion thread

[MrHT]

Originally Posted by MrHT

Just be warned, via vision is scam! I ordered the classic Alfred Hitchcock Presents set over two weeks ago and they haven't shipped it yet. And they charged my card right away too. Such scammers. I'm going to have fight tooth and nail for a refund if this doesn't ship soon. The item is in stock! How the hell does it take over two weeks to ship? And it's going to be another two weeks wait once it ships since it's international!

Well after contacting them and threatening them to cancel my order, they finally shipped it. So probably another two weeks wait for this to arrive. I ordered this on Nov 8th. Sheesh, talk about slooooow service!

[gunnerg]

I'm not sure what happened to your Via Vision/Indicator order, but surely they're not a scam. I'd say it just got lost in the order shuffle, this can happen anywhere.
I received my 85-89 AHP set from them yesterday. It only took 9 days to arrive, with the Thanksgiving interruption. I haven't played a single disc yet, but it surely makes a nice, heavy bookend to protect the precious & more fragile classic series set on the shelf.

[MrHT]

Originally Posted by gunnerg

I'm not sure what happened to your Via Vision/Indicator order, but surely they're not a scam. I'd say it just got lost in the order shuffle, this can happen anywhere.
I received my 85-89 AHP set from them yesterday. It only took 9 days to arrive, with the Thanksgiving interruption. I haven't played a single disc yet, but it surely makes a nice, heavy bookend to protect the precious & more fragile classic series set on the shelf.

The thing I don’t like about Via Vision is they charge your CC as soon as you place the order instead of when it ships. Then they take over two weeks to ship your order. That’s bad practice. Even Amazon never charges my CC until they ship my order.

I contacted Via Vision a week after I placed my order and they said I need to wait two weeks for orders to process before it ships, which admittedly, I didn’t see in their policy when I placed the order. So in good faith, I waited the two weeks and they still didn’t ship it. So I asked them to cancel the order and refund my money, and the next day they said they will ship my order asap, which they did.

They may not be a scam but this is the worst service I’ve ever encountered in any online retailer. How the hell do they take two weeks to process an order when the item is in stock?!?!

[Jompa]

Can anyone say if this show "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" 1985-1989 has Mono or Stereo sound? Perhaps it has Stereo in the later seasons.

[gunnerg]

The packaging states the entire 85-89 set is in 2.0 stereo, though the packaging also states region 4 (it is in fact region free). But frankly, the audio isn't very good, flat and muffled. Nor is the video. It's by far the worst a/v quality of any of the Via Vision's dvd sets I own (a disclaimer appears on each disc stating it's sourced from the only available source). Obviously from tape masters (2"?). Still very happy to have the series, even if I am peeved by seeing they were obviously originally shot on film.

[Jompa]

Thanks.

[Jompa]

I just got my set. Yes, it says Stereo back on the main cover, but i noticed it says Mono on the back covers of the actual seasons covers. So, the Stereo on the back cover is obviously a mistake. I checked the audio on my player. Seems like all episodes have 224 kbps in bitrate on the Mono tracks. That's nice. I expected them to be 192. Now, they will sound a little clearer because of the higher audio bitrate.

[Jompa]

Seems like i made a mistake. I just tested one season 1 episode and set my soundbar to Adaptive, so i can surround sound from Stereo tracks. Colour me suprised, i got surround sound of the surprisingly enough a Stereo track. I thought it was only Mono. I'm happy now. Why does it say Mono on the seasons back cover? When the main back cover says Stereo? The main back cover was right all along. Strange.

Update: All season 1 episodes are in Stereo.

[JackForrester]

Sucks about the poor image quality. Even if the 80s show doesn't hold a candle to the original show some eps are quite good. The one with the nurses in particular.

[Jope]

this is a long shot but i gotta ask...does the opening hitchcock narration in the below song sound familiar to anyone? is it from an episode of alfred hitchcock presents?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP-6LmurE4s&list=RDqP-6LmurE4s&start_radio=1&pp=ygUSYmlsbHkgY29iYiBvY3RvYmVyoAcB