Superman-The Complete Animated Series Oct 26

[hanshotfirst1138]

Crap, missing commentaries? I don’t want to have to hang onto the DVDs just for those .

[Jar Jar Stinks]

And the Fleischer shorts are still languishing in SD. Would've been nice to see them added as extras.

[MD Geist]

There's actually more than just the commentaries missing on this set. On volume 3 of the DVDs, there was an extra called "Superman: Behind the Cape." In it, David Kaufman (the voice of Jimmy Olsen) sat down with some of the creative team at the comics shop House of Secrets to discuss the some of the episodes on the final volume.

So, yeah, 6 commentaries and a 15 minute video feature are missing from this Blu-ray. Hopefully the press release is wrong and we can get some clarification. If not, hopefully this can be fixed before release date.

[RICKBONDOO7]

Originally Posted by Jar Jar Stinks

And the Fleischer shorts are still languishing in SD. Would've been nice to see them added as extras.

Extras ???? ...They Deserve Much Better than that. There is just 17 of them ! Why can't they release a 1 Disc Bluray of those 1941-1942 Theatrical Shorts ??? I have the 2 Disc DVD since day 1. The 1950's TV Series needs a Bluray release too !

[Jar Jar Stinks]

Originally Posted by RICKBONDOO7

Extras ???? ...They Deserve Much Better than that. There is just 17 of them ! Why can't they release a 1 Disc Bluray of those 1941-1942 Theatrical Shorts ??? I have the 2 Disc DVD since day 1. The 1950's TV Series needs a Bluray release too !

If be all for that. Hell, I'd buy a 4k set if they offered it. I suspect there's a reluctance since they're in the public domain.

[Warm Gun]

I've never been a Superman fan. I found the 1978 movie stupid. Never read any of the comics and always found the character lame. But I enjoyed watching the animated series on KidsWB when I was a kid. Because of the talent of the filmmakers and the medium. Will definitely be getting this.

[Mr. Chaverria]

Originally Posted by ben6543

With STAS coming to blu ray that means Worlds Finest Parts 1 2 and 3 aka The Batman/Superman Movie will be on there. Worlds Finest did Batman not trusting Superman at first much better than a certain movie that came out

Yeah. They did some real good work on the dynamics between the two meeting and working together.

Originally Posted by Lozin

Literally everything is coming out in October , my pre-orders are going to hurt

Very true. This is the most expensive year for me ever.

Originally Posted by Warm Gun

I've never been a Superman fan. I found the 1978 movie stupid. Never read any of the comics and always found the character lame. But I enjoyed watching the animated series on KidsWB when I was a kid. Because of the talent of the filmmakers and the medium. Will definitely be getting this.

I'm a decent Supes fan but something that irks me but doesn't affect my love for this series is the power levels of Supes. They limited him, and I think it helps out in the storytelling.

[Warm Gun]

Originally Posted by Mr. Chaverria

I'm a decent Supes fan but something that irks me but doesn't affect my love for this series is the power levels of Supes. They limited him, and I think it helps out in the storytelling.

Yeah, I think I remember that about the animated series, Superman's more limited powers, which, yes, is a positive for me who finds the character lame partly because of that. Looking forward to it.

[Water Panda]

Fantastic news to see this finally confirmed. This finishes all the main line DCAU shows on bluray. (Static and the zeta project were spinoffs done by different creative teams.)

I really hope they corrected the episode 3 error we saw in the HD stream on HBO Max and do include all the missing audio commentaries.

Just waiting for the pre-order to go up.

[Water Panda]

Aren't the Fleischer shorts public domain at this point?

WB might have the negatives/interpositives to do a remaster in their vault but may be worried that all that work would be copied and put out by another public domain company looking for a quick buck.

[Jar Jar Stinks]

Originally Posted by Water Panda

Aren't the Fleischer shorts public domain at this point?

WB might have the negatives/interpositives to do a remaster in their vault but may be worried that all that work would be copied and put out by another public domain company looking for a quick buck.

WB has had HD scans for years. I think one or two may have shown up in HD on a Superman film collection and/or YouTube.

[Mr Gitz]

Originally Posted by Jar Jar Stinks

WB has had HD scans for years. I think one or two may have shown up in HD on a Superman film collection and/or YouTube.

They are all on the Superman Anthology Blu Ray Set. With the Reeve films & Superman Returns. I think they are in HD? I know they are on there but I’m not 100% sure if they are in HD

[The Fallen Deity]

Originally Posted by Mr Gitz

They are all on the Superman Anthology Blu Ray Set. With the Reeve films & Superman Returns. I think they are in HD? I know they are on there but I’m not 100% sure if they are in HD

They're in SD.

[JEArgumedo]

Originally Posted by The Fallen Deity

They're in SD.

They were in HD on the short lived DC Universe service, and they did show one of the HD shorts in front the "Superman: The Movie (1978)" one night only even in 2019/2020 (can't remember exactly when). Hopefully they'll show up in the inevitable 4K Blu-ray set of all the Superman films.

[nmk_61802]

Has Amazon put up a preorder?

[aviosis]

What’s the price going to be? This is one expensive af year for all things blu lol

[Yaziel Esquivel]

Originally Posted by aviosis

What’s the price going to be? This is one expensive af year for all things blu lol

I'm expecting 50-60

[Galactus123]

Originally Posted by ben6543

The remarkable Superman: The Complete Animated Series box set features nearly 21 hours of entertainment spread over six Blu-ray™ discs, including all 54 exciting episodes, an all-new series-defining featurette entitled Superman: Timeless Icon, a special video commentary episode and three specially selected episodes with audio commentaries by the showrunners. All 54 episodes have been remastered from the original 35mm Interpositive sources, giving special attention to extensive color correction, dirt and scratch clean up, and adding a grain reduction pass to create a pristine picture, all while making sure not to affect the original lines in the artwork of the animation. The audio was retransferred from the original audio masters, and the series is presented in its original aspect ratio (4x3).

I hope they haven't use too much DNR. Does anyone have screenshots from HBO Max?

[aviosis]

Originally Posted by Galactus123

I hope they haven't use too much DNR. Does anyone have screenshots from HBO Max?

This was my concern exactly after reading that press briefing. How bad was the DNR on the Batman TAS Blu-ray? I definitely recall DNR there, but detail still seemed quite strong

[The Fallen Deity]

Originally Posted by aviosis

This was my concern exactly after reading that press briefing. How bad was the DNR on the Batman TAS Blu-ray? I definitely recall DNR there, but detail still seemed quite strong

I would put it in the "medium tier" category. There's still loads of detail, but there can definitely be more.

The s**t compression doesn't help either.