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The Walking Dead is straight terrible.
I tried watching the pilot, but didn't get the appeal either. I just assumed I was missing something; after all, it is wildly popular and there are intelligent folks that like it.
Happy 1-year anniversary of BTTF Day!
Great video on mashable about the film and the clocktower scene: http://mashable.com/2016/10/21/art-of-t … locktower/
I really enjoyed the second episode. It was cool going back in time like that, and they did a very good job at making it feel real.
Anyone else watching?
I saw the premiere. Enjoyed it.
Well, the wonderful folks at Mill Creek decided to give us episodes half the file size of the old season 1 dvd. It doesnt look half as bad but is a downgrade.
Of course, the price is fantastic.
Furthermore, transferring VHS to DVD is not that hard or time consuming, unless you're also doing editing and/or re-mastering of some kind.
I've done transfers, it still takes time. Here's straight from the horse's mouth if you like:
By all means, feel free to post about it wherever you'd like. It took me about three hours to find the VHS cassette, dub it to DVD in real time, burn a copy of that DVD for you, create a label for the disk and an insert for the case, and get it all wrapped up and shipped off to you. After PayPal fees and postage, I'll net probably about six bucks. If anyone else would like a copy, it'll take me less than half an hour to burn another copy and get it ready for shipping. If I can make a few extra bucks off of it, that would be great.
Always nice to see good people who will do things out of sheer goodwill.
Mission to Mars is currently on Cinemax on demand, for those interested. 
He said that he didn't really define it as the right one slid or the wrong one slid -- he said that he liked to write stories by opening doors and possibliities without rigidly and narrowly declaring what the future would be.
Thats what the ep interview essentially indicates when you look at all of his statements on it.. which is why it doesnt settle the question for everyone.
However in an old online chat he said he definitely knew which arturo slid - he wouldnt say - and that there are clues in subsequent episodes if you look closely.
In the dragoncon video he says it was designed to have the wrong arturo sliding.
As far as i'm concerned, our professor without a doubt isnt the one who died on the show.
All I was trying to say is we now have video of him indicating the wrong professor slid.
And, it is more strongly worded for anyone unconvinced ( I have run into this when pointing ppl to the ep interview).
Not trying to diminsh what we've already gotten.
Moving on.
Matt is pointing out that we have had Tracy Torme's confirmation that the wrong Arturo slid since 2009.
Thanks. I'm aware of the ep interview.. that's why I said video evidence. But i'd also add tracy's statement is much more definitive than the ep interview.
So now = 1997? Time to buy me some tech stocks!
I don't really get the joke but the video hasnt been released until now. Nobody ever ordered.
Here's the transcript
http://earthprime.com/interviews/tracy-torme-dragoncon
I was wrong on this. Apparently this "Hour with Tracy Torme" event took place the day after the Sliders panel. So this is different.
We now have video evidence the wrong professor slid.
CW premiered Frequency last night. It's available on demand and streaming
I'll be checking this out.
Got this in the mail today! I haven't had a chance to watch more than a few minutes of it but the packaging was better than the original Universal Home Entertainment release, and for only 7 bucks when you figure in the S&H. Eric really went above and beyond, I encourage everyone to get a copy if you're interested in seeing the discussion.
And to assist, maybe cut out that toy podcast
And it's live!
Yes!!!
Here's an online chat he also did at DragonCon that year.
Hi guys! Thank you for all the kind words. Yeah, the editing issues on the last few episodes kind of broke me. It was just something I dreaded having to fix. And with the Rewatch podcast humming along, there was a lot less pressure to continue. I knew you would all have something to listen to in our absence. Throw in the fact that Dan got a new job working nights, so things were looking dim for Sliderscast.
But after a little break from podcasting, I started getting the itch again. So I started up a toy news podcast with another friend of Dan and me. And I upgraded my recording software. And I think I got a little better at podcasting, and definitely got better at editing. And after a while I talked to Dan about starting to record again. So we've been working on scheduling...and last night we recorded Double Cross! It should go up before the weekend is through, if not sooner. It's one of my favorite episodes, and was so much fun recording. We have a new guest on who specially requested to cover this episode with us, and he's a huge Sliders fan too. So all in all, we probably can't manage a weekly release schedule, but maybe monthly or semi-weekly. It's always been my goal to finish the whole series, but I'm only doing that with Dan as my co-host, so if it takes a while, so be it.
Great news!!
Are you saying he is the one that converted your VHS to DVD and is now selling it, or that he did the transfer when you requested he make the panel available on DVD?
Sorry, I was confusing in how I worded that. The VHS was his. He did the transfer work etc etc. Definitely did it out of kindness.
10 bucks on DVD http://www.trektrak.com/videos.htm - Search "An Hour with Tracy Tormé" to find the item.
Here's some photos
http://www.trektrak.com/1997/fr-97sa1.htm
The guy who runs Trektrak was kind enough to transfer the vhs to DVD for me; spent a lot of time doing it and is basically giving away the dvd for free when you factor in postage and labor. So if there are any people interested in seeing this hour long event, I encourage you to order the DVD as well.
I've seen a little of Portlandia - it definitely has some good social satire but is obviously region specific.
Recently, Quinn Mallory accidentally stumbled upon yet another remarkable invention. As he excitedly attempted to show his friends, the device went crazy and turned Remmy, Wade and the Professor into children!
With their newfound youth, the trio attended the Emmy Awards and performed for the audience...
Funny stuff. Damn, Remmy can dance.
ireactions wrote:On the Season 3 monsters in general -- I always figured Quinn and Arturo would whip up some inventive solutions with something of Torme's sense of humour -- such as where the key elements to defeating the zombies, animal-human hybrids, vampires, scarab and robots could be a stick of butter, a jar of aspirin, a tin of peanuts, an insulin kit, cough syrup and a case of golf balls. I've been thinking about this a lot.
Yes, what Sliders really needed was to be more like Macgyver
I always felt I learned about penicillin from the Fever episode. Seriously. And I think its more what JRD wanted Sliders to be. So it could inspire young people around science, etc.
There's a ghostbusters one as well on netflix. I did see the Chaos on the Bridge one you mentioned, and it was good to see tracy in it.
I've been listening to old stuff lately. The casual nature is good contrast to what we get from Rewatch Podcast, so depending on what you're in the mood for you have both styles to choose from.
I really enjoyed Aaron and Ian's guest appearances as well, plus episode 14.1 or whatever it was in which Ib did a tremendous breakdown of one of the episodes that opened my eyes to things I never was aware of. It just took everything deeper.
Sliderscast is great, so I hope it comes back, too.
If Jerry needed the money, he could get booked easily to smaller conventions around the country, no problem. Trust me. Casper Van Dien does a million of them, and he is basically only known for one cheesy sci-fi film that bombed at the box office.
Well smaller ones sure. The thing is there are different ways Conventions pay special guests. Either a fee (and travel of course) or perhaps some small travel costs and the invitation to sell their autographs and meet and greet. If the convention is going to pay a fee of any significant they have to believe it will help drive people to the convention. That's fine for small conventions who don't really have headliners but it starts not to make sense for bigger ones if the person isn't going to really move the needle enough. John Rhys Davies is more attractive to a convention than Jerry is in that respect.
Jerry was at WonderCon last year - but I'm pretty sure the project he was working on paid for him to be there. It was in LA too, so not much of a big deal traveling or scheduling wise.
I've asked promoters before, they haven't been interested.
I think although there's overlap, the convention crowd is a different type of audience than who the core slider fans are, and certainly different than the typical sliders audience.
The Sci-Fi Channel market research supports this.
http://www.earthprime.com/wp-content/up … liders.pdf
Target Audience
Primary target is sci-fi susceptibles who are Sliders fans. Having held a steady 5.5 rating on FOX,
if we can tap into even a fraction of these viewers and alert them to the fact that SFC will be
running all-new exclusive eps of the show, our ratings will be proportionally excellent.
According to our research department, loyal Sliders fans are primarily urban Males & Females
(50/50) 18-49, who are likely to be highly educated homeowners with families, and probably
have slightly higher-than-average income. Many of them are professionals, or in managerial
positions. They enjoy classic rock radio, sports, travel, and apparently read Cosmo more
than any other magazine. They tend to be "techy", owning and enjoying video games,
computers, expensive audio-video equipment, etc., yet they don't tend to read magazines
devoted to these pursuits.They are a mainstream television audience who appreciate quality science fiction but would not
classify themselves as "sci-ti fans". These are people who will be interested in thought-provoking
television drama. They are not into sci-ti that's too "out there". More interested in becoming
involved in stories revolving around people, where the action emerges naturally out of the
relationships between the characters, not to fulfill a special effects quota. These people are
probably not terribly impressed by gratuitous SFX at the expense of good storytelling.
People who enjoy working as part of a team. The ensemble cast is a tightly-knit unit, almost a
family, trying to survive among an infinity of parallel earths.
They are not teenagers.
I loved every episode. Even some of the slower, weirder ones were really really cool. I'm hoping they can keep up the momentum with that many episodes.
I'm convinced that we'll have that "memory" tech soon, and it's gonna mess with me
yea, I wonder if they can maintain the quality at 13 episodes..
I love this show! I especially liked "National Anthem" and "White Bear". The one with Jon Hamm (Mad Men fame) titled 'White Christmas" was also very engaging. could not get into the second episode and that one about the woman tragically losing her lover...was creepy... brrrrr
I think they should do more episodes, this is an outstanding show.
A season 3 was ordered with 13 episodes... so they are coming.
I've never seen Species, so maybe if I had, I would feel differently.
It really isn't just that the show was inspired by Species; it's that doing a show like that was a giant waste of the entire premise of Sliders and it just really got away from why anyone tuned in. It would have been ok as a b-movie horror/comedy flick.
Has anybody seen this before? Just heard about it and seems if you like sliders / outer limits / twilight zone, you might like this, based on the description. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_M … TV_series)
Again I work in the industry and we only "destroy" drives that have personal financials on them like credit card numbers. Tech has changed though and we don't even keep the numbers anymore. Hillary could have easily deleted 15,000 spam messages, but Trump claims these are valid.
Anywho, Gary Johnson showed why it is that 3rd parties continue to fall flat on their face. He had next to no knowledge or even opinion on the mess in Syria. The reason is that his platform, like that of many 3rd parties, is seemingly zoomed in on specific issues, and blank on everything else. Can't do that.
Meanwhile Trump continues to praise Russian President Putin, an enemy of democracy in Russia and abroad, for how in control of his country he is. Sorry Don, that's called a dictatorship. You've got almost anything related to Clinton being hacked by Russian sources, and released on the web by Wikileaks. Assange has made it clear he's vehemently anti-Clinton. Again, you've got a candidate sees nothing wrong with the methods of the Kremlin, one who may well OWE millions of dollars to Russian banks. Difficult to know, because he refuses to release his taxes.
Maybe he's hoping Putin makes those problems go away?
I know we have dissected and resected and read all Earth Prime comments and reviews but I for what its worth want to take time and grade the season 3 episodes. Not much commentary I just give them grades and invite others to do the same and comment if you prefer. so without further ....
1. Rules of the Game B- our favorite guilty pleasure agree
2. Double Cross A mostly agree, b+ or a-
3. Electric Twister Acid B- mostly agree, b- or b
4. The Guardian A superb television basically agree, a- or a
5. the Dream Masters C blatant rip off, silly but watchable c+ - and yes, this is still watchable.
6. Desert Storm F kind of like this one
7. Dragon Slide D yea
8 The Fire Within F started out OK, but just got awful and maybe the worst sliders episode ever
9 Prince of Slides B mostly agree, b+
10 Dead Man Sliding A mostly agree, b+/ a- Not sure this has aged as well
11. State of the Art D c for a half interesting concept, and I like bladerunner
12. Seasons Greedings B+ it is much better in the first 30 minutes or so, but i will give it an a-. i love the concept
13. Murder Most Foul C b or b+. reminds me of the star trek (torme wrote?) where he plays a detective
14. Slide like an Egyptian C IMO this is where the show "Jumped" awful CGI, stupid premise but watchable bad, bad but c+ for a certain charm. but bad
15. Paradise Lost F yep
16. Exodus pt 1 B- yes, maybe even a b
17. Exodus pt 2 C d+ / c-
18.Sole Survivors B not a huge fan of Zombie genre but enjoyable agree
19. The Breeder F agree
20. The Last of Eden C
21. Other slide of Darkness D
22. Slither F
23.Stoker D- an idiotic acid trip, bad but the high grade because of the ludicrous and stupidity of this dog
24. Dinoslide B the best post Auturo episode this grim season
25. This slide of Paradise C its watchable and stupid, like Stoker to the point of being downright ridiculous.all the F's are just unwatchable and I do not waste the hour (45 minutes) watching them. bad as Stoker and This Slide of Paradise are I can at least watch them if not just for a good laugh.
15.
pilight wrote:Season Three is the worst of Sliders
Back in 1999 I actually thought that Season 4 was where the show "Jumped" but after rewatching the DVD's I actually found an appreciation for Season 4. It was at its best with just the three sliders. the first few Colin episodes were not that bad but by the end of the season it fell flat (with The Chasm and Roads Taken being the nadirs of the season)
That being said, I agree that Season 3 IS THE ABSOLUTE WORST. This was when the show jumped the shark right after "The Guardian" aired. Sure there are some roses in this bed of thornes , Dead Man Sliding, Seasons Greedings but for the most part this season came down to a lame attempt to turn a cute quirky Sci fi series into The X Files (FOX's proudest ship in the FOX fleet)
Totally agree.
In Germany, a distributor is releasing a Standard Definition of Sliders on Blu-Ray - so the complete series is packaged on just four discs.
The audio has an English option and it ships to the U.S. It's also about the same price as the Mill Creek Entertainment DVD release.
https://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/ … derssli-21
It comes out in September, about a month before Mill Creek's release does.
http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/to … user-share
Jelly’s Last Jam
Signature Theatre
Thanks! From the article link:
he’s still probably best known for playing Rembrandt Brown on the cult TV classic, “Sliders.”
“I had the best time doing it. There was not one day I didn’t enjoy working on that show,” Derricks said. “I know it started to fall on its wayside—new producers came in and new writers came in—but I loved doing it and it’s why I stayed till the very end. I loved the idea of multiple worlds and parallel Earths.”
Even though the show ended 16 years ago, it’s a part that people recognize him for just about every day thanks to constant reruns and a European fan base that is second to none.
Okay, but where are the programs to help those people? I don't have any love for the coal industry, but these are people who want to work. Who are willing to do hard work. They mine coal because that's all their family has done for years. They aren't going to get a job as engineers. They aren't going to work for Goldman Sachs.
Hillary (allegedly) cares about poor Hispanics and poor blacks and poor Syrian refugees. But she's basically ignoring poor whites. She doesn't need them to win, but it'd be nice if she pretended like she cared about them.
Please watch her answer today at the association of black and latino journalists event about why are people supporting trump even with his offensive remarks. I think you will be pleasantly surprised and it relates very much to the recent discussion here.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/ … or-whites/
This is an interesting article about why people are voting Trump.
Hint: it isn't because they're all stupid and/or racist, despite what the media wants you to think.
thanks for posting this!
Thanks for posting your essay. It's really interesting from what I have read so far and am looking forward to reading it through.
Worth noting: https://www.facebook.com/james.grissom/ … 1889333429
Anyone else notice TVShowsOnDVD 'some of them coming to blu-ray shows' that well they've all been recently announced to DVD-none to blu-ray.
I'm close to buying another DVD case for the upcoming set. If you take a look at the recent release of Mad About You from Mill Creek it doesn't bode well: https://www.amazon.com/review/reviews-l … B01CIS85YE
I thought miami vice and knight rider got bluray?
I think the best way to imagine a SLIDERS blu-ray release from Mill Creek is to put your hands over your eyes and let the empty blackness of nothing fill your sight. It's not going to happen. However, AIRWOLF is interesting in that the 1080p transfer really achieves nothing; there just isn't enough detail in the image to make it worthwhile; I suspect SLIDERS would be about the same.
I am concerned to examine Mill Creek's site and see that they are storing 88 episodes on 15 discs. The previous complete DVD set had all the episodes on 22 discs; does this mean Mill Creek is compressing the video even more than the last release? It's possible the disc count is just preliminary, of course, given that Mill Creek's customer service reps couldn't answer a single question about the DVD.
I was worried about the disc count as well, and it might be a problem (discs cost money and this is a low-margin release for MC so every dollar counts).
However, assuming its dual layer DVDs, and the previous release was not, then it would be like having 30 discs vs. 22. It will probably be dual layer with 6 episodes per disc, and potentially some extras on a disc with 4 episodes.
upconverted that yourself? the netflix quality looks awful.
Yea. The netflix is putrid. With good source files (like the pilot dvd), as ireactions has said in the past we can get a decent picture using software that algorithmically fakes HD. It fills in empty lines of resolution in going from SD to HD, deals with noise, colors, sharpness, etc. I have a family member who has done this stuff before and did it for me with this material.
It looks tremendous on an 60 inch tv and was even able to get it looking pretty good projected at 150 inches (but it required my playing it using power dvd's own video enhancement setting).
I'm away now, so I don't have access to my DVDs for a screen shot, but here's an example of the netflix pilot vs. a pilot upconverted off the dvd file (stretching for 16:9).
There's no way the HUB could have done the HD upscale unless they were given the raw materials from Univeral to do it in the first place.
Oh, I agree with that. Here's hoping Mill Creek works with the same.
If the HUB could get the digital materials to do a decent semi-HD upscale, I see no reason not to think Mill Creek couldn't benefit from the same. It's possible that Netflix and Universal came to the streaming arrangement before Universal had a department and a procedure for handling HD broadcast on shows only stored as standard definition on their masters. The Professor would tell you to expect nothing but hope for everything.
I just don't know if Mill Creek cared or even knew of the issue with the early episodes, enough to reject the existing digital assets (if those were offered). Since Mill Creek is pricing this extremely affordably and has lower margins on this release, it's really not clear if they'd try to do a transfer themselves. And Universal only recently put out their own series two years ago, so they may just send those files MC's way. It is 88 episodes after all, and doing a transfer cost money (might be about $9k).
The thing about The Hub is they were broadcasting in HD. And we know they put in some resources into sliders, producing promos etc. It's just a bigger outfit than MC.
So I think it could go either way, we'll see October 4 
A blu-ray release could store the video at the highest possible quality, but I imagine even if you maxed out the bit rate, the video quality would not be any better than video at the upper limit of DVD storage. Universal's masters are undoubtedly in standard definition. So long as Mill Creek doesn't overcompress the way Universal did, it should be fine.
Right, as long as they are doing a transfer themselves... and not just reusing the digital assets Universal has sent out to netflix, vod and used for the previous DVDs (all which look like crap for those non-pilot early episodes). That's what I fear but if they do the transfer themselves, I think we'll definitely see improvements as I can't see how they could f it up more than Universal did.
Is there anyone in this thread that doesn't already own the series on DVD - or can catch it on Netflix? What is the audience for this release at this point?
I think this article, speculating in April about what Mill Creek's Quantum Leap release would be like, highlights their business model:
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Quantu … nd-2/22175
Mill Creek hasn't said in their announcement materials one way or the other, but for fans hoping that this re-release would correct the missing material from the original DVDs that Universal put out in 2004...we have NO reason at this time to believe that Mill Creek's releases have that missing material. Our expectation at present is that the episodes will be the same on these new versions, and that the re-release isn't targeted at passionate fans who already own the previous versions (but rather, like many of Mill Creek's re-releases, at casual fans who missed picked up the original DVD sets, perhaps due to cost).
If we look at the Sliders release by MC in 2016, it's suggested retail price is $45. The Universal one in 2014 was what, $150 or something? So MC is really offering this at the fraction of the cost. Of course, people do have options to buy season sets individually on the cheap or get the 2014 release used. Who knows how well this will do, as long as Mill Creek didn't pay much for the license they should be ok, I think.
My guess is the new release coming out may look better single layer disk, etc. The problem If you got the hub episodes is the bottom of the screen hub would take up to advertise what was coming up or contest, so you would end up with an network logo on all episodes.
Ah, I was just thinking there'd be a logo. Still would probably be worth it if the source files were materially better. Not to mention, I might be able to figure out a way to use the bottom of the dvd image to cover that stuff.
I would guess if the new release dvd sells good the only thing left to do is a bluray conversion.
I would guess the last couple rereleases had some sales for their to be a complete season rerelease with episodes in correct order...tthis is the 1st time anyone has 5aken the time to do this on dvd...with it being a new conversion it may have less episodes or a better conversion.
The show was shot on film but the badly done special effects would have to be redone..would be nice to get a star trek classic series or sting bluray redo but I can't see anyone spending the money....maybe could talk amazon into it as an exclusive on demand project. I t would be cheaper than a 13 episode show and their is a built in audience
Even low-budget projects cost about $800k per episode. Unfortunately, no way we have enough power to do that for an exclusively premium distributed product.
As far as blu-ray, to do true hd they'd also have to re-edit everything because the film negatives are just what was shot, not the edited episode. So you have to re-edit which takes time, and too many man hours for a project with sliders dvd sales. Although I did hear of one series where they used image recognition technology to reassemble the shots. But it's huge obstacle outside of special effects.
But, as ireactions has said before, they could do a simulated hd verison... we would just have to push universal to make something like this happen. I don't think they care, and frankly, I think they have bigger fish to fry, which is why the dvd releases have gotten the past treatment they have.
You mean this one?
Not sure if you have these, Season 2 EPK:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x43bem … -part-1_tv
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x434ln … -part-2_tv
Aaron had posted this in another thread.
Looks better than season 2 dvd's, but these are the ones from 2004 in the floating DVD case, they had like 6 episodes compressed on one DVD something new at the time where as previous to this release usually there would be 3 hrs on a single dvd vs the 5hr + on these dvd's.
Saying that the HUB Broadcast looks better, as said before their are black bars on the left and right of the screen being that The HUB was an HD only TV network.
The DVD has more grain...The HUB images look slightly better.
Is it a drastic difference "No", I am playing the DVD on a bluray player with a DVD up-convert so I am getting the best version of what the DVD could offer.
The HUB was the only network to try Sliders Reruns and they aired them in order with the best quality possible...I wish it would of worked but we had an extra year of so of new eyes getting to see Sliders again.
I checked it out on Netflix, Netflix looks better than DVD, HUB still looks better.
Ok, thanks. My understanding from what others have said is the 2014 Complete Series DVD didn't have better quality for the season 1 & 2 episodes on the 2004/2005 DVD release.
It sounds like either the Hub did their own transfer from the master tapes and/or did an upconversation on the digital assets, either from their transfer or the one provided by universal.
It doesn't sound like you're saying there's a huge difference but its better. Since we're never going to get a Blu-ray and I find the quality of the season 1/2 on DVD or netflix makes it look like a show out of the 80s (or 70s), I'm going to have to see if it's at all an option to get stuff from the hub to do my own upconversion job with. I remember The Hub looking better, but it's been so long, I wasn't sure to what degree. Sounds like it's still pretty meh.
I have "The Good,the Bad and the Wealthy" & California Reich on my tivo premier.
but i dont realy have a good way to transfer them to anything else
Would you be able to compare "The Good, the Bad and the Wealthy" to the DVD version and see if you think the image quality is better on The Hub vs. the DVD? I'm interested to see if The Hub broadcast the same digital file as what the DVD had, or if it were any different.
Did anyone happen to DVR the Hub episodes (particularly season 1 & 2 eps) and still have them on your box?
The problems you describe with your stretching strike me as too high a stretching percentage on too much of the border areas with insufficient cropping to obscure the width issues of movement. My HTPC uses Cyberlink PowerDVD with their stretching algorithm called TrueTheatre Stretch: http://www.cyberlink.com/stat/technolog … _video.jsp Their technique does not create the distortion you describe.
Oh thanks!
Jim_Hall wrote:Stretching 4:3 to 16:9 would be a tragedy for Sliders. I'd rather see 4:3 in HD rather than a stretch.
Here's an example of how SLIDERS could be upconverted to 16:9 with a plug and play solution. This is how SLIDERS looks when I watch it on my HTPC and switch on the upconvert. The upconverted version is on the right.
The algorithm isn't just chopping the top and bottom off a 4:3 image. It's stretching the edges of the image at a moderate percentage for the left and right and an even smaller percentage at the top and bottom, filling a 16:9 space while losing some detail at the border of the image, but not remotely as much as uniform cropping and it avoids distorting the image.
I ended up doing the smart stretching based on your recommendation. It was great for getting a sense of what a 16:9 scan would look like, but I think I may go back to 4:3. From what I saw, every time characters weren't in the middle of the frame (eg when they were on the sides), they stretched too much, and their width changed as they moved through the frame.
I'm pretty frustrated with us likely not even getting simulated HD with this release, but hopefully as you say the source files are of better quality. I am not holding out hope. Perhaps I am mistaken but even on Netflix the pilot seems to be much higher quality than other episodes from season 1. I think universal just sent Netflix the ones they had on hand for the dvd and will do the same with Mill Creek.
I'm going to try to post my clips of my upconverted pilot at some point, somewhere. If we can get quality enough source files for the episodes, I might just try to do a blu-ray myself, because I have no faith in the likelihood Universal bothers with giving us anything new anymore.
Out of luck on the blu-ray
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Slider … ries/22442
My thoughts on RussianCabbie's thoughts:
I can't think of anything more terrible than SLIDERS as a fan series with the clumsy non-actors and non-directors of these STAR TREK fan films to be performing scripts that were written as pastiches of Jerry, Sabrina, Cleavant and John's performances. I can't think of anything more unwatchable than poor thespians attempting to imitate these talents.
It is beyond me why you are so keen on people doing poor impressions of these actors -- a desperation for more product even if that product is utter crap. Tom and Cory's impressions of the SLIDERS are, if reviewed as serious drama, an abomination of performance -- they can't maintain the caricatures, they drop the accents, they can't seem to do a character voice and act at the same time -- which is perfect when they do their parodies and horrific when doing it seriously -- and yet you still wanted them to perform a more serious SLIDERS script in character! You said it would be "divine" which tells me you have nearly zero concern for quality (outside of hating SLIDERS REBORN based on a half-assed effort to read 50 pages of it).
But if it makes you happy, go ahead. All those STAR TREK fan films are mostly awful awful awful -- but they made their creators happy by existing.
The idea of getting impersonators is because I don't think you can get the real actors. I once did think that might be possible... as a final send off of the series for sliders fans... but with jerry now interested in doing a tv series, I would think he wouldn't want to do what would be canon via a uncommercialzed one time radio drama.
I don't think corey/tom were doing those things seriously.. they were meant to be funny. You'd have to find people who could do a decent job of sounding like these characters. Although not easy, I think its possible. And I don't think you do it if you can't find those folks. I realize this more now than I once did.
I do agree bad actors would make the entire thing satirical in a bad way. Trying to do such a project is not something I'd even suggest pursuing at this time, I just brought it up as a form of a fan revival that I think is more reasonable to achieve then doing anything live action, like i think informant was suggesting.... because it is just so much bigger of an effort once cameras are involved.
On another note, we should totally create a Sliders fan-made series! I'm sure we could get some of the old actors. At the very least, we should be able to get some of the old Star Trek actors who are out of work now!
Not really on topic, but I've considered reworking some of my fanfic into entirely original stories and selling them. I have a bunch that would work. I could probably churn out a bunch of novellas just using those ideas.
Hmm... interesting.
One of the things I would super-appreciate if people did is write to Amazon's Kindle Worlds program (http://kindleworlds.amazon.com) and ask them to add SLIDERS as a world. This will allow authors to write Sliders work (minimum 5k words up to full length books) and be able to sell it on the kindle platform, and get compensated for it.
It takes two seconds to write Kindle Worlds, you can do so here: https://kindleworlds.amazon.com/contactus
They already responded when I wrote them, saying:
"In order to submit or create a World we need you to please send us a request, just like you have done. Your request has been recorded.
We continue to expand the program, and will keep your offer in mind when we open negotiations for new Worlds.
If we believe there's an opportunity to work with them, we'll be definitely announce and let you know about it via email.I think if they get 5 or 10 requests, it's certainly better than just one so I hope folks here will send a brief note. It would seem to help to improve the chances. I know Aaron, who many of you have heard on Sliderscast, would want to try to do a Sliders series (he's already done six non sliders books), and I am sure there's some other authors out there who've already done work that can be repurposed for the program.
We have a lot of good authors in the community, and it is a way of carrying the torch with regard to the franchise continuing to put out stories, and at least there's a little financial incentive, even if it by and large remains passion project writing. Getting Sliders on Kindle Worlds is a achievable goal.
As far as your mentioning a fan-made Sliders series, I think it would be certainly cool to do teleplays... there are a couple of great JRD impersonators out there, there's a guy who imitated Jerry's voice for VO work on the Kangaroo Jack animated series, doing Remmy wouldn't be too hard, and same with Wade. I think a decent quality audio production could be put together for $2-5k. I think Sliders 2015 is perfect for it. And I think it would be plausible to raise the money on kickstarter.
That said, I'm not even thinking about the teleplay nowadays. Since Jerry wants to bring back to tv series so much (especially if he doesn't get the Kelly talk show gig), I'd like to see how that plays out. I had an interesting exchange on twitter with the co-executive producer on NBC's blacklist, a friend & past collaborator with Tracy, and while I think it'd be awful hard to get a network without the right things in place, I'm not giving up on the idea that a tv series or tv movie is impossible.
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