Leider hat sich das Rechteproblem noch nicht lösen lassen und wir mussten den Titel zu unserem großen Bedauern erst einmal auf unbestimmte Zeit verschieben. Ja, es hat mit den Musikrechten zu tun. Tut mir leid.
Viele Grüße,
Michael Geidel
Problème de droits
En effet, l'excellentissime série MALCOLM ne devrait jamais voir le jour... Le problème est que dès la saison 2 de nombreux morceaux de musique ont été utilisés sans aucunes autorisations et ce tout au long des saisons suivantes... Lors de la diffusion TV, les droits d'auteurs sont reversés comme pour un passage en radio mais pour la commercialisation d'un support enregistré il faut l'autorisation écrite contre arrangement financier des différents ayant droits, et pour le coup ça coûterait bien trop cher à la Fox... donc aucun intérêt pour eux de la sortir en DVD si ça doit leur couter plus cher que ça ne leur rapporterai... voilà le fin mot de l'histoire... Source provenant d'un ami commercial chez Fox Pathé Europa...
My Season 4 set arrived today, and I'm incredibly dissapointed with it. Not only are the TV PG logos present on EVERY episode (they were bearable at first, but this is just taking the Michael!) the episodes themselves are FIELD BLENDED, which is very bad for videophiles such as myself!
Basically, what this means is that the source material, which was interlaced has been de-interlaced using the 'field blend' technique, which combines overlapping fields in to one frame. This might be fixable if someone has enough time on their hands to do a manual conversion.
For those who aren't sure what I'm talking about, here is a screenshot from the DVD episode "Family Reunion":
http://oi49.tinypic.com/vnz87p.jpg
For a commercial DVD, this sort of stuff really is not on, considering all DVD players and PC software is equipped with the appropriate deinterlacing tools. Nothing gets to me more than field blending.
If the next season is released like this, I think I'll just stick with my BBC 2 recordings.
Good to hear that, Greg!I just got my Season 4 set and went through a few episodes. It's not nearly as bad as I was expecting. Sometimes when the camera moves the video is slightly jerky, but since this show is 23.97 fps, it's not really that noticeable (to me, at least).
I remember when I bought the last few seasons of Home Improvement. That show was shot on video, so it's supposed to look "live", but they screwed something up on them and several episodes felt like they were in slow motion. That's what I was expecting with this set, but these episodes are still completely watchable, in my opinion.
I noticed a technical problem with the Fabulous Films DVD of S2. The "paint splash" buttons on the menu to activate individual episodes often fail to work on my PC and from my TV DVD-player. If you click them, the DVD just stops and the screen turns to black, or whatever initial state it was in. Very annoying! I have to hit the Play All-button, and then work my way through all the chapters most of the time.
Does anyone have similar experiences, or with subsequent seasons?
Rich
Bleh. Season 2 is also interlaced - Im not quite sure why the other posted said the video was field blended - I always thought that was a deinterlacing method, and these videos are heavily interlaced.
this sounds extremely erratic, like, we have a couple of Netflix versions, and some other sources, let's slap them together and we have a product.
You're quite right about that! I put two screenhots illustrating this in our Gallery:Bleh. Season 2 is also interlaced - Im not quite sure why the other posted said the video was field blended - I always thought that was a deinterlacing method, and these videos are heavily interlaced.
And the very first episode of season 2, shows "fox widescreen" with the TV PG L or whatever logo in the corner.
Yes, Mass, come to think of it, they could have used the digitized versions for online streaming, which would be an easy option. At any rate, they didn't go back to the masters in any shape or size. I've half a mind to contact Fabulous why they couldn't go back to the masters - I mean, not in an aggressive way, let's say inquisitive Same with the buttons that do not work with reasonbly standard software (VLC, Cyberlink, Windows Media Player) and DVD hardware. It all looks pretty slipshod, which is a shame after 10+ years!Richiepiep, this does actually make me wonder if the Netflix masters were used for this DVD set. Obviously this isn't a case of FF screen capturing the Netflix streams, it would be more complex than that, but I wouldn't put it past FOX to supply versions created specifically for online streaming; it would explain the field blending to be honest.