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Season 2 is just different to season 1: neither better nor worse, as I remember it. I found a torrent of The Gathering in 720p, which looked quite good. It was the "special" version, rather than the original one, so it was missing the zoo sequences, which I found quite interesting. After that...

I am not surprised, but stunned at that news. I think I will invest in that, once we get it.

You know, that's very true isn't it? When you look at B7 and Space: 1999, there is a real mawkish and weird quality about those shows. They're almost quite punishing to watch. UFO was a terrific show in its first season because it was quite a hard sci-fi and it was a purely military challenge...

It really is a '70s thing, where they made it intensely bleak: Blake's 7. It is 1984 in space, but some ideas they had were just impossible to carry off on the budget that they had. It's the same problem as Dr Who, where, with a time machine that can take him anywhere and at any time in the...

I remember, last time I watched it, which was about a year ago or so, I dropped off a bit of the way into season 4. Without wanting to spoil things too badly, the end of season 3 comes as a major system shock as they lose (what for me is) a major selling point of the show. That weird bug thing...

This Xenforo solution is really nice. It's good to find a modern forum solution that you host yourself rather than it being cloud-hosted on someone else's server. The only private forum that I've seen that was comparable to this one features-wise was the Jolla Sailfish OS forum (which I learned...

I have a small site about a Japanese family sci-fi series called Star Fleet. I know a very talented fan who ran the DVD rips through an AI upscaling process and the results were amazing: and that was only up to 720p. There may be a follow-up in 1080p some day. As I recall, it was the French...

I was absolutely shocked when I saw that the blu-ray for B5 was available: especially that it wasn't just an upscale like the Andromeda blu-rays, which in the early seasons look worse than DVD. I think that part of the reason that we got it was that it was remastered for a streaming service...

You can have a TV without a TV license. They have to somehow prove that you're using it to watch/record live television: either over antenna, cable or live streaming. We only use the TV for non-live streaming, torrents and blu-rays. All the antennas have been taken off the house, since it's a...

This is very true and it worked well for Star Trek the original series. Unfortunately, the BBC is just a propaganda outlet nowadays. About half-a-million households in the UK have not renewed their TV licenses in the last year and this is the BBC's primary source of revenue...

I sometimes wonder whether an AI upscale, like I saw done on Star Fleet (X-Bomber) recently might help polish the grimy appearance of some of the shots in Blakes 7. Have you noticed how the bleary film that they use for all those BBC shows of the era (B7, Dr Who, Hitch-Hikers Guide, Red Dwarf)...

It seems like they're playing some funnyness with the regions. I think I got mine for about £40-something, months ago. There's not that much difference between the £ and the $. I got mine from rarewaves, who were a bit cheaper. I'm not sure whether they're a particularly great company, but it...

One thing I will say, is that I thought Gary Cole as the captain was brilliant. I felt that I identified with him in a way that I didn't with any other character from Crusade or B5 itself. The idea of bringing him and Lochley in the show together worked brilliantly, for me. One of his neatest...

Those videos look hilarious. That second one with Jerry Doyle talking is interesting. He seemed really based. Thanks for the link, :D

In a lot of cases, these were the same people that had done the special effects for all the Supermarionation shows, going all the way from Supercar, through Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and then UFO. The effects work in UFO which was about 1970, I think, was pretty incredible. It had...