Crusader
February 14th, 2011, 11:23
Has anyone come across a good quality set of this series staring Steven Collins ? I think this has been brought up here before at SOH . My wife got me this set several years ago but she forgot where . The set(DVD) that I own has a tan background and brown picture on each DVD . Very poor quality video and audio and in checking on the net seems to have been on a few other suppliers as well . Here is part of a review I found on Amazon that explains what I'm talking about :
" This review is from: Tales of the Gold Monkey: Complete Series (DVD)
This is a fun show with a very likable cast. But the transfer leaves much to be desired. The video is only so-so... but acceptable I guess. The main problem; the audio transfer is really sub-standard. There is something wrong with the dialogue and effects mix. I don't know if it's a compression issue, or the original audio off the master tapes was poor to begin with? But this audio is not DVD-quality. The best way to describe it would be it sounds like audio off of an old, cheap VHS tape recorded at EP (lowest quality) speed. This issue seems to be on all the sets. I returned my initial set, got a replacement -- the replacement set had the same problems. "
My set sure has the audio problems described above but also very poor video as well .
If anyone comes across a set or who presently owns a good quality DVD set of this very good series could you share where you got it .
I'll keep looking ,
Rich
" This review is from: Tales of the Gold Monkey: Complete Series (DVD)
This is a fun show with a very likable cast. But the transfer leaves much to be desired. The video is only so-so... but acceptable I guess. The main problem; the audio transfer is really sub-standard. There is something wrong with the dialogue and effects mix. I don't know if it's a compression issue, or the original audio off the master tapes was poor to begin with? But this audio is not DVD-quality. The best way to describe it would be it sounds like audio off of an old, cheap VHS tape recorded at EP (lowest quality) speed. This issue seems to be on all the sets. I returned my initial set, got a replacement -- the replacement set had the same problems. "
My set sure has the audio problems described above but also very poor video as well .
If anyone comes across a set or who presently owns a good quality DVD set of this very good series could you share where you got it .
I'll keep looking ,
Rich