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   Ken Nischan wrote to All Subject: Best copy?   
      
    KN> What's the best copy at which one can get B5? I have the DVD   
    KN> set, and the quality is pretty crap. I can't find a 4K version   
    KN> anywhere. I was happy when Star Trek got a 4K version, but I read   
    KN> that it was not an easy thing to produce so I was thinking maybe B5   
    KN> just never was able to. Anyone know if there is a version floating   
    KN> around somewhere that is better than 720 x 480?   
      
   I had a set of all moives and TV episodes on DVD that I purchased   
   when Borders was in business and the quality was good.  They were produced   
   by Warner Brothers.  They were widescreen, dolby digital DVDs and the   
   visual and audio quality was outstanding.   I had at the time a 32" High Def   
   screen and 7.1 sound system.  (Upgraded now to 55" 4K TV still with the   
   7.1 sound system.  (Did not have the Wolfer because on the second floor of   
   a one famaily house I would have shakened walls apart).  The speakers did   
   a good job of reproducing all the lows.   
      
   I watched all the set when I purchased them and after a pause when I went   
   through one or more of my other series or movies, (I probably have 300 or   
   400 DVDs and 4K movies), I picked the series up again.   
      
   I'm telling you this because after a few years I decided that I want to run   
   the whole B5 saga from start to finish.  (You actually start with "In The   
   Beginning" then "The Gatering" then run the series inserting the movies and   
   the final film just before "Sleeping In Light" which is the last what you   
   watch).  Anyway after picking the series up again I found that some of the   
   DVDs, (not all from the same year set), were totally BLANK, like they were   
   never recorded.  I do not know what caused this but the data has simply   
   disappeard like the DVDs were read/write that you could erase like a   
   DVD-ROM.   
      
   I wrote Warner Brothers about this and offered to send them the whole set   
   and after about two or three months of back and fourth about it the sent   
   me another brand new set of all the movies and series.   (Maybe I was not   
   the first to report this).   I ran the new set and found it "mostly perfect"   
   though there were one or two that were actually BLANK in the set.  Fortunally   
   they never asked for the first set back and I was able to swap out discs   
   from one set to the other to make a complete set.   
      
   I have not picked up the B5 series a a few years.  I'm wondering if I will   
   find the same issue again if I decied to do so.   
      
      
   Well your story just brought this to mind and I had to tell it.   
      
      
   Take care.   
      
      
   -=>  Al Kaiser n1api@cox.net <=-   
      
   The best I can do for now...   
      
   Al Kaiser - Meriden, CT, 04-Jun-2024 at 9:27.   
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