Andromeda: The Complete Series - May 23rd 2016 - Blu-ray Forum

Blu-FutureUK · 02-02-2016, 04:09 PM

Surprise

Release Date - SEP 19th 2016

Complete Series
Amazon UK

Season 3
CANCELLED

Season 4
CANCELLED

Season 5
CANCELLED

zeze · 02-02-2016, 04:13 PM

I remember watching this show every Sunday morning. I will be getting this for sure.

Indiana Jones · 02-02-2016, 04:15 PM

Well this is certainly a surprise, thought they had given up releasing it after Season 2.

CouncilSpectre · 02-02-2016, 04:45 PM

I'll do what I did with the first two seasons, wait for them to hit a tenner.

What with this, and the Mutant X set, what are the odds that Earth: Final Conflict shows up as well?!

Cap.T · 02-02-2016, 04:55 PM

These are just terrible upconversions like Farscape, right?

CouncilSpectre · 02-02-2016, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Cap.T

These are just terrible upconversions like Farscape, right?

Slightly worse than the Farscape upscales. It's at least noticeable that they tried to do a decent job with Farscape. Andromeda, the BDs were barely distinguishable from the DVDs. Superior compression maybe, didn't notice any artefacts at least. Detail though, nope.

adamclark83 · 02-02-2016, 11:58 PM

About time!! Finally all of Trance and Rommie on Blu-ray in rightful 16:9.

SeaSponge · 02-16-2016, 07:28 AM

I already have seasons 1 and 2, so I hope these come out separately as well. The only bonus to the Season 1 set was that this was the first time it had been made available in 16:9. The image quality is nothing to write home about.

Indiana Jones · 02-16-2016, 10:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SeaSponge

I already have seasons 1 and 2, so I hope these come out separately as well. The only bonus to the Season 1 set was that this was the first time it had been made available in 16:9. The image quality is nothing to write home about.

They are releasing 3-5 separately there are even link in the OP to them.

SeaSponge · 02-16-2016, 02:21 PM

The link for Season 3 looks exactly the same as it has for the past two odd years, I hope it gets updated with product info soon.

jono51 · 02-16-2016, 06:27 PM

Are they going to print more of S1? Kinda hard to find, or rather, I don't really want to pay the ~£35 for it on Zavvi.

And even more wishful thinking: is there even the slightest chance that in the past 3 years they found better quality masters which they'll use for this set?

SeaSponge · 02-16-2016, 06:48 PM

Highly unlikely, I imagine this will still be a cheap and cheerful upscale. The only positive about them is that they take up far less shelf space than the old Contender DVDs!

MarcelS1 · 02-17-2016, 06:07 AM

Bought a decent complete series DVD set in 2012 with English subs & of course English soundtrack (German release).
So if it's not a True HD transfer, I guess Im not interested.

SeaSponge · 02-17-2016, 08:09 AM

That's how I feel about the Farscape releases. I love the show but the DVDs do the job well enough in this case.

CouncilSpectre · 02-17-2016, 08:22 AM

If you weren't convinced by the Farscape upscales then you probably shouldn't bite on these either, as IMO, the Farscape BDs offer a better upscale.

ToASTER · 02-17-2016, 11:24 PM

I found Farscape upscales very good upgrade over DVD. They were also restored to native progressive film (23.976p). Some of S3 episodes even looked a little like real HD.

I've never seen Andromeda blu-rays, but as far as I've heard Andromeda S1-2 hasn't been properly restored, they just left it in telecined broadcast state (29.97i), and upscaled that, which resulted in worse jaggies than the nice SD versions in the 50-disc Widescreen DVD boxset. Also the Blu-ray versions are cut slightly differently, so one can't even sync the lossless audio to DVD versions...

Again, this is what I heard, but would love to see a sample .m2ts file of Andromeda Blu-ray to judge for myself to see if it's really worse than DVDs.

CouncilSpectre · 02-17-2016, 11:38 PM

Definitely true of season one, I remember the judder. Season two though, from memory, was much better than the first set. Still an obvious upscale job, but an improvement over season one at least.

Sadly, my copies are in storage. Somewhere......

Indiana Jones · 02-18-2016, 08:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ToASTER

I found Farscape upscales very good upgrade over DVD. They were also restored to native progressive film (23.976p). Some of S3 episodes even looked a little like real HD.

I've never seen Andromeda blu-rays, but as far as I've heard Andromeda S1-2 hasn't been properly restored, they just left it in telecined broadcast state (29.97i), and upscaled that, which resulted in worse jaggies than the nice SD versions in the 50-disc Widescreen DVD boxset. Also the Blu-ray versions are cut slightly differently, so one can't even sync the lossless audio to DVD versions...

Again, this is what I heard, but would love to see a sample .m2ts file of Andromeda Blu-ray to judge for myself to see if it's really worse than DVDs.

Do they definitely have lossless audio? as its been a few years since I owned season 1 but believe it was just Dolby Digital.

stargazeruk · 02-18-2016, 08:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Indiana Jones

Do they definitely have lossless audio? as its been a few years since I owned season 1 but believe it was just Dolby Digital.

The audio for both seasons were LPCM 5.1 Sound. Uncompressed.

Indiana Jones · 02-18-2016, 09:15 AM

So they at least had that going for them.

02-02-2016, 04:09 PM	#1
Blu-FutureUK Active Member Member since:Jun 2012 Blu-ray collection:44	Andromeda: The Complete Series - Sep 19th 2016 Surprise Release Date - SEP 19th 2016 Complete Series Amazon UK Season 3 CANCELLED Season 4 CANCELLED Season 5 CANCELLED Last edited by Blu-FutureUK; 05-11-2016 at 04:59 PM.

02-02-2016, 04:13 PM	#2
zeze Blu-ray Baron Top contributor Member since:Aug 2009 4K collection:604 Blu-ray collection:7678 DVD collection:123 Trading Score:297	I remember watching this show every Sunday morning. I will be getting this for sure.

02-02-2016, 04:15 PM	#3
Indiana Jones Blu-ray Champion Top contributor Member since:Aug 2009 Location:Bristol, England 4K collection:7 Blu-ray collection:17 Trading Score:42	Well this is certainly a surprise, thought they had given up releasing it after Season 2.

02-02-2016, 04:45 PM	#4
CouncilSpectre Blu-ray Prince Top contributor Member since:Apr 2013 Location:United Kingdom 4K collection:905 Blu-ray collection:7107 DVD collection:881 iTunes collection:13 Prime collection:107 Blu-ray reviews: 11 Trading Score:24	I'll do what I did with the first two seasons, wait for them to hit a tenner. What with this, and the Mutant X set, what are the odds that Earth: Final Conflict shows up as well?!

02-02-2016, 04:55 PM	#5
Cap.T Special Member Member since:Aug 2008 Location:Germany Trading Score:64	These are just terrible upconversions like Farscape, right?

02-02-2016, 11:58 PM	#7
adamclark83 Blu-ray Guru Top contributor Member since:Nov 2011 Location:Melbourne, Australia 4K collection:61 Blu-ray collection:1423 DVD collection:1245	About time!! Finally all of Trance and Rommie on Blu-ray in rightful 16:9.

02-16-2016, 07:28 AM	#8
SeaSponge Senior Member Top contributor Member since:Dec 2015 Location:Lancashire, UK 4K collection:6 Blu-ray collection:808 DVD collection:511 Digital collection:1 Prime collection:3	I already have seasons 1 and 2, so I hope these come out separately as well. The only bonus to the Season 1 set was that this was the first time it had been made available in 16:9. The image quality is nothing to write home about.

02-16-2016, 02:21 PM	#10
SeaSponge Senior Member Top contributor Member since:Dec 2015 Location:Lancashire, UK 4K collection:6 Blu-ray collection:808 DVD collection:511 Digital collection:1 Prime collection:3	The link for Season 3 looks exactly the same as it has for the past two odd years, I hope it gets updated with product info soon.

02-16-2016, 06:27 PM	#11
jono51 Junior Member Member since:Dec 2015 4K collection:22 Blu-ray collection:75	Are they going to print more of S1? Kinda hard to find, or rather, I don't really want to pay the ~£35 for it on Zavvi. And even more wishful thinking: is there even the slightest chance that in the past 3 years they found better quality masters which they'll use for this set?

02-16-2016, 06:48 PM	#12
SeaSponge Senior Member Top contributor Member since:Dec 2015 Location:Lancashire, UK 4K collection:6 Blu-ray collection:808 DVD collection:511 Digital collection:1 Prime collection:3	Highly unlikely, I imagine this will still be a cheap and cheerful upscale. The only positive about them is that they take up far less shelf space than the old Contender DVDs!

02-17-2016, 06:07 AM	#13
MarcelS1 Blu-ray Samurai Top contributor Member since:Mar 2011 Location:Netherlands 4K collection:21 Blu-ray collection:577 DVD collection:132 Blu-ray reviews:26	Bought a decent complete series DVD set in 2012 with English subs & of course English soundtrack (German release). So if it's not a True HD transfer, I guess Im not interested.

02-17-2016, 08:09 AM	#14
SeaSponge Senior Member Top contributor Member since:Dec 2015 Location:Lancashire, UK 4K collection:6 Blu-ray collection:808 DVD collection:511 Digital collection:1 Prime collection:3	That's how I feel about the Farscape releases. I love the show but the DVDs do the job well enough in this case.

02-17-2016, 08:22 AM	#15
CouncilSpectre Blu-ray Prince Top contributor Member since:Apr 2013 Location:United Kingdom 4K collection:905 Blu-ray collection:7107 DVD collection:881 iTunes collection:13 Prime collection:107 Blu-ray reviews: 11 Trading Score:24	If you weren't convinced by the Farscape upscales then you probably shouldn't bite on these either, as IMO, the Farscape BDs offer a better upscale.

02-17-2016, 11:24 PM	#16
ToASTER Member Top contributor Member since:May 2009 Location:New Zealand Blu-ray collection:- DVD collection:- Blu-ray reviews: 16	I found Farscape upscales very good upgrade over DVD. They were also restored to native progressive film (23.976p). Some of S3 episodes even looked a little like real HD. I've never seen Andromeda blu-rays, but as far as I've heard Andromeda S1-2 hasn't been properly restored, they just left it in telecined broadcast state (29.97i), and upscaled that, which resulted in worse jaggies than the nice SD versions in the 50-disc Widescreen DVD boxset. Also the Blu-ray versions are cut slightly differently, so one can't even sync the lossless audio to DVD versions... Again, this is what I heard, but would love to see a sample .m2ts file of Andromeda Blu-ray to judge for myself to see if it's really worse than DVDs.

02-17-2016, 11:38 PM	#17
CouncilSpectre Blu-ray Prince Top contributor Member since:Apr 2013 Location:United Kingdom 4K collection:905 Blu-ray collection:7107 DVD collection:881 iTunes collection:13 Prime collection:107 Blu-ray reviews: 11 Trading Score:24	Definitely true of season one, I remember the judder. Season two though, from memory, was much better than the first set. Still an obvious upscale job, but an improvement over season one at least. Sadly, my copies are in storage. Somewhere......

02-18-2016, 09:15 AM	#20
Indiana Jones Blu-ray Champion Top contributor Member since:Aug 2009 Location:Bristol, England 4K collection:7 Blu-ray collection:17 Trading Score:42	So they at least had that going for them.

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