NEW! Scans of Carlton UFO DVD Box 2 Packaging!

Hi all,

On my "UFO Series Home Page", I've just added scans of the packaging
for the new Carlton UFO DVD Box 2. You can see these at:

http://ufoseries.com/videos

Personally, I was a bit disappointed to see each volume didn't
feature it's own unique character. I'd rather had seen a Henderson
and Jackson volume instead of yet another Straker and Foster volume...

And the packaging for both sets is consistently dark, as if UFO
entirely took place at night... in a haunted house! :-) The show
wasn't THAT dark, was it?

Marc

--- Marc Martin wrote:
>
> Personally, I was a bit disappointed to see each volume didn't
> feature it's own unique character. I'd rather had seen a Henderson
> and Jackson volume instead of yet another Straker and Foster
> volume...

You're right, Marc. But on the other hand I like these close-ups,
especially the Straker one on disc 7 :-)

Christian

Marc Martin wrote:
> Hi all,

> And the packaging for both sets is consistently dark, as if UFO
> entirely took place at night... in a haunted house! :-) The show
> wasn't THAT dark, was it?
>
Interesting you should say that because although the photos used
on the first box set are very dark and moody, I didn't really
think the 2nd box set packaging images were. They look much
more ordinary to me - not nearly as well done, I would say. In
fact I reckon the effect of the posed weapon shots against the
purple background is a bit camp!

>Interesting you should say that because although the photos used
>on the first box set are very dark and moody, I didn't really
>think the 2nd box set packaging images were.

I think it's the black/purple background that makes it all appear
rather dark. I *do* like how it looks artistically, I'm just wondering
if this is a good representation of the series...

Marc

Marc Martin wrote:

>I think it's the black/purple background that makes it all appear rather
>dark. I *do* like how it looks artistically, I'm just wondering if this
>is a good representation of the series...

Given that I spend a large amount of my frame capture time on this show
yelling "Turn on the lights, dammit! Can't you people pay your electricity
bill?!" I'd say it's a fairly reasonable representation of the series. They
did have an awful lot of scenes with a low light level, compared to the
other shows I capture.

- Lisa

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--- In SHADO@y..., Lisa Williams <lisa@e...> wrote:

> Given that I spend a large amount of my frame capture time on this
show
> yelling "Turn on the lights, dammit! Can't you people pay your
electricity
> bill?!" I'd say it's a fairly reasonable representation of the
series. They
> did have an awful lot of scenes with a low light level, compared to
the
> other shows I capture.
>
> - Lisa

Are you sure it's not the rather variable quality, dark transfers on
the video copies you appear to be using? Will you be switching to
grabs from the DVDs at some point ?

Jonathan

groovier69 wrote:

>Are you sure it's not the rather variable quality, dark transfers on the
>video copies you appear to be using?

No, I think it's more the predilection for night scenes, underwater scenes,
and sets with ceilings so the lights and shadows are weird. Lots of all of
the above in UFO.

>Will you be switching to grabs from the DVDs at some point ?

Yep, as soon as I get the DVDs. I thought about buying the British
releases, but may just wait and get the US ones. I'm fully occupied doing
captures for another show right at the moment, so don't mind waiting a bit.

- Lisa

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Lisa's Video Frame Capture Library: http://framecaplib.com/

>Yep, as soon as I get the DVDs. I thought about buying the British
>releases, but may just wait and get the US ones.

On a similar note, I'm *not* currently planning on updating the
frame captures on my "UFO Series Guide", but I am planning on
updating all of the quotes on my "Dialog" page using the Carlton
DVD's as the source (I will slow them down by 4% myself), and
also the beginning & ending music, if the DVD's are higher
quality than what's already on my website (I suspect they
are)

I also plan on redoing my "sound effects" page someday, using
the UFO "music & effects" tracks I acquired some years ago.  
Without the dialog getting in the way, I can probably do
some better "background effects" (inside Moonbase, inside
SHADO HQ, in the car, etc.). Currently that page uses the
Japanese audio track from the Japanese laserdiscs, which,
like the new DVD's, utilizes a much higher quality magnetic
track source.

Marc

>On a similar note, I'm *not* currently planning on updating the
>frame captures on my "UFO Series Guide"

Oh! And although I don't currently have any way to make DVD
frame captures, if someone is able & willing to make frame
captures of the 5 scenes on my main page:

http://ufoseries.com

I'd be happy to update those!

(unfortunately, I have no idea what episode those scenes
of Straker and Ellis are from. The UFO is probably
from Question of Priorities or Exposed, and the car
is of course from Identified. SID is probably from
Identified as well.