Lost in Space (Series) - Remastered in HD

[Dex Robinson]

Originally Posted by mar3o

Yet, the color looks strangely dark. Far darker than the 1" tapes on the left side. It looks much too dark.

I think it looks just right.

One of things that I've said here many, many times...and I probably said it again not more than two weeks ago is, "People like their bright, yellow, transfers".

For years (like about 30 years) home video has been too bright and much too warm (pushing towards yellow).

You can go to almost any thread here and the first complaint you'll hear about a new transfer of old catalogue material is that, "it's too dark". In the very first scene of that video test, you can see the warm cast of the space suits on the old master to the left left and the proper silver on the HD. Take a look starting about the 2:30 mark (an episode called THE CONDEMNED OF SPACE). The color on the old version on the left is ridiculously warm. Furthermore, it's so bright that some highlight detail is lost...scarf and glove detail is washed out in the outfit worn by Marcel Hillaire.

I think the new version is right both for color and brightness.