The X Files

[Kasim2409]

Looks like The Complete Series (1-11) Boxset on Blu-ray has come back in stock at a few places like Amazon & a couple of eBay sellers like MusicMagpie (New copies) Rarewaves & Chalkys

[drush9999]

Originally Posted by Kasim2409

Looks like The Complete Series (1-11) Boxset on Blu-ray has come back in stock at a few places like Amazon & a couple of eBay sellers like MusicMagpie (New copies) Rarewaves & Chalkys

Bet there was warehouse full of Fox related stuff sold on recently by a certain Mouse

[DavidRoylance]

Now that I have the complete set on blu and have checked out the amazing quality of the majority of episodes it makes me super angry that the Mouse House have buried all their Fox assetts within streaming.

Both Millennium and The Lone Gunmen should be on blu too. Millennium will look especially good in HD as it was as beautifully shot, if not more so, in a neo-noir style.

[DavidRoylance]

I have the set in the dvd size box where the stacking of discs is an abomination. If anyone knows how I might get my hands on blu-ray size boxes and copies of the original cover inserts, I'd interested in knowing.

[FreddyK]

Originally Posted by DavidRoylance

Now that I have the complete set on blu and have checked out the amazing quality of the majority of episodes it makes me super angry that the Mouse House have buried all their Fox assetts within streaming.

Both Millennium and The Lone Gunmen should be on blu too. Millennium will look especially good in HD as it was as beautifully shot, if not more so, in a neo-noir style.

I don't know if has changed, but Fox stopped putting TV stuff on blu ray. It annoyed me with Bones as they went from DVD to Blu Ray to DVD. I just want the whole series on Blu. I too would have liked Millennium on Blu.

[DavidRoylance]

Yes, Fox lost interest and that has resulted in the biggest gaping unfinished collection of all, for me, Homeland 1 - 7 on blu, nothing for 8 except Netflix.

Now it is all held behind the Iron Curtain of Disney, who have no interest in the archive they have bought.

Originally Posted by FreddyK

I don't know if has changed, but Fox stopped putting TV stuff on blu ray. It annoyed me with Bones as they went from DVD to Blu Ray to DVD. I just want the whole series on Blu. I too would have liked Millennium on Blu.

[Marv Inc.]

One can hope that Disney hit financial trouble in the next 5 years and sell off 20th Century or finally decide to start licensing out.

[DaveSimonH]

Originally Posted by Marv Inc.

One can hope that Disney hit financial trouble in the next 5 years and sell off 20th Century or finally decide to start licensing out.

I read that they've had to pump a lot of cash into the Disney+ project, an "operating loss of nearly $1.5 billion", so maybe they'll realise there 'all eggs in one basket' approach could be tweaked. If for nothing else, to appease their shareholders...

The disc market has shrunk, but I'm sure the people still buying discs would be happy to see Fox TV on BD, or titles licenced out, and/or some of the catalogue live action content, currently stuck in 'Disney Movie Club' limbo, sold worldwide. I'd certainly like to see UK (or EU) releases of 'Cool Runnings', 'The Parent Trap', 'The Love Bug', 'Honey I Shrunk the Kids' etc.

[MovieBuffDev97]

To those who’ve purchased this UK set and watched it all of the way through, did you encounter any faulty discs? I’m only asking because I was looking into buying it myself but with Amazon’s 30 day warranty I’d never have the time to get through the whole collection before it ran up and I don’t want to waist $150 USD if there’s issues with certain discs. There were problems with the previous US releases so I just want to make sure.

[Blu Lemmy]

Season 8 on the original run had a terrible dark crush issue, I assume it was fixed for later releases as they did provide corrected discs

[drush9999]

The Complete Seasons 1-11 set had the corrected season 8 discs for sure.

[leafan]

I'd be interested to know this too because I was considering the purchase but was gong to buy the seasons 1-9 set and get the others separately.

Does anyone know if there are issues with the discs in the UK 1-9 set on Blu Ray?

[Blu Lemmy]

Originally Posted by leafan

I'd be interested to know this too because I was considering the purchase but was gong to buy the seasons 1-9 set and get the others separately.

Does anyone know if there are issues with the discs in the UK 1-9 set on Blu Ray?

This is the 1-9 set I know had issues with season 8.



I want to believe the later releases are fixed

[leafan]

So, I took the plunge and purchased the season 1-9 blu ray from Amazon in a Used Good condition.

Season 8 is indeed noticably dark, but I got it for around £54 delivered and it also included Season 10 in the spare box space! Just need Season 11 now.

I wonder if I could still get those discs replaced somehow?!?

[levcore]

I started watching this set in 2017 I think, still haven't finished it, really lost interest lol. On season 6 currently but haven't watched an episode in many months.

[FreddyK]

Originally Posted by leafan

So, I took the plunge and purchased the season 1-9 blu ray from Amazon in a Used Good condition.

Season 8 is indeed noticably dark, but I got it for around £54 delivered and it also included Season 10 in the spare box space! Just need Season 11 now.

I wonder if I could still get those discs replaced somehow?!?

Too late now for replacements but have noticed them on ebay a couple of times.

[Grazza]

Originally Posted by leafan

So, I took the plunge and purchased the season 1-9 blu ray from Amazon in a Used Good condition.

Season 8 is indeed noticably dark, but I got it for around £54 delivered and it also included Season 10 in the spare box space! Just need Season 11 now.

I wonder if I could still get those discs replaced somehow?!?

Hi, I got lucky in buying a second hand set of s8 discs on eBay - I got the replacement discs. But a lot of people selling them won’t have the disc info available for the replacements, so you may have to ask them to check the updated numbers on the actual discs.

[leafan]

A bit of an update here.

I decided to dip in to some random favourite episodes last night, and whilst the Blu Ray picture quality compared to the DVDs is amazing, the dark issue persists across seasons.

A picked a couple of random favourites and the darker scenes are so dark that you can barely see details that you're meant to see.

Examples:-

Season 4 - Home - The scene where the mother inspects the boys, you can't see the chewing of the bread and the inspection of the boys torsos. I check it versus the DVD, which although intentionally dark, is clear.

Season 5 - Folie à Deux - The scene where Mulder chases the creature into the house of the shooters' wife and it scurries up the outside of the house and on to the roof. Can barely see it. Also the scene where Skinner is warning Mulder and the insect looms behind him.

So not just season 8 by the looks of it.

Does anyone know if this is fixed on the Season 1-11 boxset?

[Indiana Jones]

Originally Posted by leafan

A bit of an update here.

I decided to dip in to some random favourite episodes last night, and whilst the Blu Ray picture quality compared to the DVDs is amazing, the dark issue persists across seasons.

A picked a couple of random favourites and the darker scenes are so dark that you can barely see details that you're meant to see.

Examples:-

Season 4 - Home - The scene where the mother inspects the boys, you can't see the chewing of the bread and the inspection of the boys torsos. I check it versus the DVD, which although intentionally dark, is clear.

Season 5 - Folie à Deux - The scene where Mulder chases the creature into the house of the shooters' wife and it scurries up the outside of the house and on to the roof. Can barely see it. Also the scene where Skinner is warning Mulder and the insect looms behind him.

So not just season 8 by the looks of it.

Does anyone know if this is fixed on the Season 1-11 boxset?

It was only ever Season 8 that was affected, the rest have no mastering error.

[Blu Lemmy]

Originally Posted by Indiana Jones

It was only ever Season 8 that was affected, the rest have no mastering error.

Yeah, what Indy said.

I watched Home just a couple nights ago, it was fine for me