Highlander: Season One () (1992) Highlander: Season One Blu-ray features bad video and mediocre audio in this mediocre Blu-ray release With over 220 minutes of bonus material. The Gathering Family Tree The Road Not Taken Innocent Man Free Fall Bad Day in Building 'A' Mountain Men Deadly Medicine The Sea Witch Revenge is Sweet See No Evil Eyewitness Band of Brothers For Evil's Sake For Tomorrow We Die The Beast Below Saving Grace The Lady and the Tiger Eye of the Beholder Avenging Angel Nowhere to Run The Hunters For more about Highlander: Season One and the Highlander: Season One Blu-ray release, see published by Kenneth Brown on January 20, 2010 where this Blu-ray release scored 2.5 out of 5. Arabian Love Poems Nizar Qabbani Pdf Creator there.

Directors:,,,,, Starring:,,,,, ». The Blu-ray release of Highlander: Season One has been riddled with controversy.

Presented with a less-than-spectacular (to put it mildly) 720p/AVC-encoded transfer, it has drawn harsh criticism from the series' eager, outspoken fanbase. In an official statement released late last year, post-production producer Donald Paonessa had this to say about all the hubbub: In response to the postings regarding the 'Highlander Season 1' Blu-ray release, we would like to say (as the people who have lived with this show for 17 years), that our goal has been to deliver the very best product for our fans to enjoy. With respect to the Blu-ray version of the series, we did as much research as possible to come to a decision as to how to release the newest box set of the series. In our opinion, the solution we came up with will give our fans a great Blu-ray experience. We produced a product with quality that can best be described as follows: what the standard-definition DVD was to the VHS version of the show, our Blu-ray (digital 720p) release is to the standard-definition DVD (digital 480i).

The series plays out as a set of New York Times wedding video parodies with a twist: the groom is a serial killer. The show smartly eases us into this fact, careful to withhold violent moments at first. Once we do get harshly acquainted with Ted's (Ben Kronberg) true nature, Gracie's (Friedman) love for him.

He goes on: We took the original digital masters that were made from 16mm film negative, removed grain, up-res'd and tweaked the original 720x480 image (480i) to 1280x720 (720p) progressive scan. In our opinion 720p gave us the best results from the material we were working with.

Once again, our goal was to give our fans a great Highlander Blu-ray experience. Another question was why we didn't go back to the original film negative. Primarily, once the film was transferred to digital, it was vaulted. The technology at that time has made it extremely difficult to trace back from the digital masters to the original film negative. Also, the visual effects, which were done digitally, in a standard-def (480i) format, would not up-res to the quality of original negative re-transfer to HD. To redo all of the effects, transitions, Quickenings, etc.

Would be incredibly cost prohibitive. So the original film solution was not a realistic option for us and our 720p solution achieved the best and most consistent quality overall. 'Removed grain,' 'up-res'd,' 'the best results from the material we were working with,' 'cost prohibitive,' 'extremely difficult,' 'not a realistic option.' Paonessa's explanation is appreciated, and the Highlander team's efforts are certainly commendable, but one obvious question remains: why then release the series on Blu-ray at all?

Season One's transfer is an absolute mess. Detail is in shambles, smearing and bleeding cripple the palette, macroblocking and compression artifacts litter every scene, crush and aliasing run rampant, grain occasionally appears in the guise of a sandy soup, mosquito noise and edge halos dot the proceedings, skintones range from flushed pink to sunkist orange to milky white, textures are nearly non-existent in all but the tightest closeups, black levels are terribly inconsistent, delineation is a joke, and noise reduction only makes everything more unsightly. Worse, the already shoddy video quality rises and falls from episode to episode. 'Deadly Medicine' towers over others, establishing itself as Season One's relative showcase piece, while more important episodes -- 'The Gathering,' 'Family Tree,' and 'The Hunters,' among others -- are left to their own muddy devices.