Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Series (w/ Jeremy Brett) - 9/30

[Indiana Jones]

Originally Posted by ol_Dut

I was just going to post this! I picked up the same four. I guess I can wait on Memoirs for a few months.

Can you comment on the audio format and number of discs please.

[ShirleyFilms]

Originally Posted by ol_Dut

I was just going to post this! I picked up the same four. I guess I can wait on Memoirs for a few months.

Here are the Special Features:
FF Collection - No special features
Casebook - Commentary on The Disappearance of Lady Francis, Daytime Live with Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke, Sherlock Museum Short
Return - Elementary...-Interview with E. Hardwicke, Director commentary on The Priory School
Adventures - Vintage Sherlock series promo

All feature 2.0 Lossless English Audio and are Region-Free.

Awesome! Have you had a chance to watch them? Do you have any of the other releases (Spanish/Japanese)? Can you make any comparisons?

[synnerman]

Originally Posted by Indiana Jones

Can you comment on the audio format and number of discs please.

PCM 2.0 is the audio. "Adventures" and "Return" have 3 discs each, while "Casebook" and "Feature Films" have 2 discs each. No more than four episodes on a disc (and all are dual-layered). I don't have any of the overseas' releases, so I can't compare. Image seems a little soft at times, but that seems to be result of the source, not the transfer.

[Indiana Jones]

Lossless audio, extras and more space for each episode to breath, certainly sound better than my lossy audio, barebones and over compressed Spanish discs.

[arnie]

Are these included in the set you can preorder for $40?

[Indiana Jones]

Originally Posted by arnie

Are these included in the set you can preorder for $40?

Which set is that? as I believe the complete set which will include the above 4 and the last series is going to be $140+

[ShirleyFilms]

I picked these up from Costco today.

I am no technical expert, but I do have the complete DVD set as well as the Spanish BluRay set as reference.

I haven't had time to watch much. But I put in The Sign Of Four and Hound Of The Baskervilles for a quick comparison.

I have to say, the Spanish release looks MUCH better to my eyes. I know there were concerns about the level of noise reduction and sharpening in the Spanish release, but watching the new US release, I can see why they did it. The level of noise and grain (for example, in the beginning of the ep when Mary Morstan consults Holmes) is distractingly high. In this scene, Holmes brushes dust from his pants - I couldn't even SEE the dust through all of the noise and grain in the US bluray release.

Hound wasn't nearly as bad. Definitely noticeably darker in the places where the Hound was lurking. The final dog attack where Henry is struggling with the dog was much darker than the Spanish version. Not nearly as clear and detailed. Again, a matter of personal preference, I suppose. But I prefer the Spanish here too.

To each his own, but I will take the waxy faces over the noise and grain here. I wish I had a way to post screenshots. I hope someone will do an in-depth comparison. But for the moment, I am planning NOT to open the remaining sets. I think I will likely return them and stick with my Spanish Blues.

[Indiana Jones]

Did they fix the shots in 'Sign of Four' that were shot during the day but should have had a filter put on them so they appeared to take place at night?

[arnie]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/The...DKIKX0DER /URL the price went up :{

[Indiana Jones]

Originally Posted by arnie

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/The...DKIKX0DER /URL the price went up :{

Not sure where you got $40 from though as it was $160 when it first went up.

[Ray_Rogers]

HELL YES!
I've been waiting for this to hit Blu-ray disc far more compared to Agatha Christie's POIROT with David Suchet! Jeremy Brett is the definitive Sherlock Holmes to me, more than Robert Downey Jr., Basil Rathbone, Benedict Bumberbatch, and Peter Cushing combined.
Glad I waited for a domestic release, they're shot on film so there's an exception for my "importing from the source country with no exceptions" rule. Didn't want to buy it from Japan or Spain. This is one of my all time favorite British TV shows from Granada! Also, that bloke in the intro credits will NEVER be able to buy that newspaper.
Just wish Brett wasn't in failing health though and completed all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's SHERLOCK HOLMES stories.
I'm just grinning ear-to-ear about this!

[ShirleyFilms]

Originally Posted by Indiana Jones

Did they fix the shots in 'Sign of Four' that were shot during the day but should have had a filter put on them so they appeared to take place at night?

Not sure which shots you mean. Are you referring to the boat chase near the end?

If so, it looks very similar (in the brightness) to the Spanish release. Though, I would still contend the Spanish looks better. I never found those shots/transitions that jarring. That chase scene (in my view) starts at dusk and continues into the night - the night portion beginning when the copper turns on the searchlight. I actually just watched the DVD version of that scene again for reference, and it seems the same to me, overall. But since the quality of the DVD is so low/colorless, it just seems to transition from dusk to night a bit smoother. But I think the elements are the same.

Hope this helps. The more of it I watch, the more unimpressed I am with the US release. It's not horrible, as blu-rays of 80s TV shows go - it's definitely better than the DVDs. But I would love to hear others weigh in with more technical reviews.

[arnie]

Originally Posted by Indiana Jones

Not sure where you got $40 from though as it was $160 when it first went up.

It was $41 when I first saw it. Now it says unavailable.

[arnie]

Now it's $54 https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Ad...lu-ray/106475/

[ShirleyFilms]

Just watched Master Blackmailer. Strange audio thing happening in this one. Evident from the very first shot. When the birds fly up, there is an annoying "modulation" or something, happening to the audio. Almost a ghost echo. Sounds really bad. That quality is present throughout the movie, tho is only occasionally distracting.

[Stig-Helmer]

Originally Posted by ol_Dut

I was just going to post this! I picked up the same four. I guess I can wait on Memoirs for a few months.

Here are the Special Features:
FF Collection - No special features
Casebook - Commentary on The Disappearance of Lady Francis, Daytime Live with Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke, Sherlock Museum Short
Return - Elementary...-Interview with E. Hardwicke, Director commentary on The Priory School
Adventures - Vintage Sherlock series promo

All feature 2.0 Lossless English Audio and are Region-Free.

Any English subs?

[Indiana Jones]

Originally Posted by ShirleyFilms

Not sure which shots you mean. Are you referring to the boat chase near the end?

If so, it looks very similar (in the brightness) to the Spanish release. Though, I would still contend the Spanish looks better. I never found those shots/transitions that jarring. That chase scene (in my view) starts at dusk and continues into the night - the night portion beginning when the copper turns on the searchlight. I actually just watched the DVD version of that scene again for reference, and it seems the same to me, overall. But since the quality of the DVD is so low/colorless, it just seems to transition from dusk to night a bit smoother. But I think the elements are the same.

Hope this helps. The more of it I watch, the more unimpressed I am with the US release. It's not horrible, as blu-rays of 80s TV shows go - it's definitely better than the DVDs. But I would love to hear others weigh in with more technical reviews.

The opening sequence is meant to be at night also and towards the end there are flashbacks to India and some of those were meant to be at night but without the filter are clearing shot in the middle of the day.

Originally Posted by arnie

Now it's $54 https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Ad...lu-ray/106475/

That is just the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (ie Series One) it's not the complete series which is on Amazon for over $200

[arnie]

Thanks

[lkmg]

$205 seems pretty expensive....

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by lkmg

$205 seems pretty expensive....

It was $160 before. This is for 40 hours of content mind you, I don't think the price is that bad at all, especially if you've been in the market for the DVD set years back. If you want the series., but can't spend the money, then get the Spain version which is much cheaper