Bad Discs
This is not about the TV series, but about the discs themselves. The first set I ordered had some sort of residue all over the disc surface. I tried to remove it, only to make it worse. I returned it and got another set, and the second set had the exact same problem. I would not want to play these in my ps3 or blu-ray player only to cause damage. Really, the disc surface looks terrible! Like they have dry glue on them or something. If I never accidentally dropped one on the floor, I might have never even noticed. Now, I am really going to make sure to check discs when I buy them. Luckily, I did not sell my Collector's Edition which I had planned to replace with this. I just wanted something that took up less space. Oh, well. I tried... twice.
Complete Original TV Series, Same Bad Remastering like w/ Transformers
Both G.I. Joe & Transformers Original TV Series were created by the same studio, SunBow/Marvel and they did a great job. Even if some of it seems a bit corny since you've grown up, the animation, story lines, characters etc. are in my opinion one of the best we have had in TV Animation especially in the 80s.
The bad news is the same studio (whoever they are? Rhino? Shout?) who remastered Transformers, also did this. So it suffers from the same issues.
-Video Remastered from original 35mm film with no proper 3:2 pull down with aliasing (jaggies) appearing.
-Some video (missing from film masters) is replaced with the old analog broadcast masters which appear "out of place" since they lower quality.
-Audio is never consistent on mixing voices and sound effects, varies from episode to episode. Sometimes sound effects are to loud and can't hear the voices, other times voices are to loud and barely hear the sound effects.
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Great series, so so release
I grew up on this series, bought the toys and almost every tie in to G.I. Joe. I was very excited to see this release, I really wanted to the series but the foot locker was just over kill. First the packaging is well done, simple but informative. They basically repackaged the 4 DVD sets that had been previously released in one collection with a bonus outer slip case.
The overall audio and video of the series is pretty good but nothing to write home about. All the special features, PSA's etc that are included on the individual releases are intact.
The biggest gripe I have is the discs I originally received where either manufactured wrong or covered in some sort of solvent. The discs played fine in my tray loading DVD player but I was afraid to use them in my slot loading PS3. My only fear is the discs not lasting after repeated viewings due to the above issues.
Only time will tell, hopefully this does not affect the health of this box set.
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