Hello.

What's the best copy at which one can get B5? I have the DVD set, and the quality is pretty crap. I can't find a 4K version anywhere. I was happy when Star Trek got a 4K version, but I read that it was not an easy thing to produce so I was thinking maybe B5 just never was able to. Anyone know if there is a version floating around somewhere that is better than 720 x 480?

Thanks!
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Hi, Ken!

15 ¼á⌐ 24 12:06, you wrote to All:

What's the best copy at which one can get B5? I have the DVD set, and
the quality is pretty crap. I can't find a 4K version anywhere. I
was happy when Star Trek got a 4K version, but I read that it was not
an easy thing to produce so I was thinking maybe B5 just never was
able to. Anyone know if there is a version floating around somewhere
that is better than 720 x 480?

In Soviet Russia Babylon 5 3840x2160 you :) https://rutracker.org/forum/tracker.php?nm=babylon%205

Regards,
Shoo.

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Re: Best copy?
By: Alexander Shushpanov to Ken Nischan on Thu May 23 2024 11:12 pm

Hi, Ken!

15 ¼á⌐ 24 12:06, you wrote to All:

What's the best copy at which one can get B5? I have the DVD set, and the quality is pretty crap. I can't find a 4K version anywhere. I
was happy when Star Trek got a 4K version, but I read that it was not an easy thing to produce so I was thinking maybe B5 just never was
able to. Anyone know if there is a version floating around somewhere that is better than 720 x 480?

In Soviet Russia Babylon 5 3840x2160 you :) https://rutracker.org/forum/tracker.php?nm=babylon%205

Cool. I didn't see an English option, so registering was a bit challenging, having to ALT-TAB between the page and Google Translate, lol. Alas, their registration email isn't coming through. Did it take awhile when you registered? Maybe I'm just being impatient, heh.

Thanks!
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Hi, Ken!

15 ¼á⌐ 24 12:06, you wrote to All:

What's the best copy at which one can get B5? I have the DVD set, and
the quality is pretty crap. I can't find a 4K version anywhere. I
was happy when Star Trek got a 4K version, but I read that it was not
an easy thing to produce so I was thinking maybe B5 just never was
able to. Anyone know if there is a version floating around somewhere
that is better than 720 x 480?

In Soviet Russia Babylon 5 3840x2160 you :) https://rutracker.org/forum/tracker.php?nm=babylon%205

It's likely just upscaled from the dvd version. B5 has a lot of digital effects, so like DS9 and Voyager, all those would have to be recreated in high-def.

That's why DS9, Voyager and Enterprise haven't been remastered in 4K

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Am 15.05.24 schrieb Ken Nischan@1:275/89 in BABYLON5:

Hallo Ken,

What's the best copy at which one can get B5? I have the DVD set, and the quality is pretty crap. I can't find a 4K version anywhere. I was happy when Star Trek got a 4K version, but I read that it was not an easy thing to produce so I was thinking maybe B5 just never was able to. Anyone know if there is a version floating around somewhere that is better than 720 x 480?

There is a pretty recent release of Babylon 5 in HD, where the
material has been rescanned at HD resolution and even the CGI portions
have been revamped.
It looks pretty nice :)
I don't know if it's available on BluRay, but AFAIK it's on some
streaming services.

Regards,
Anna

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Re: Re: Best copy?
By: Anna Christina Nass to Ken Nischan on Fri May 24 2024 04:50 pm

> There is a pretty recent release of Babylon 5 in HD, where the

material has been rescanned at HD resolution and even the CGI portions
have been revamped.
It looks pretty nice :)
I don't know if it's available on BluRay, but AFAIK it's on some
streaming services.

Regards,
Anna

Thanks. I must be brain damaged; I can't believe I didn't do the obvious and check the big streamers first lol. For some reason I didn't think they had it.
I bought S04E15 to test it out. It's not *great*, but it's definitely better than my 480p copy I have now. Thanks. Makes me want to pick up the BD now to see if having the 1080p uncompressed helps even more.

I'm using a 142 inch screen, so the more res the better. This 480 version at that size feels like it has pixels the size of my thumb, lol
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Re: Best copy?
By: Al Kaiser to Ken Nischan on Tue Jun 04 2024 09:27 am

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. Fortunall 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.

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