Hi guys,

Nice to meet all of you. I know this has been discussed several times since the episodes were released on DVD, but I have a few questions in regards to the video quality, particularly the “Mrs. Roger's Neighborhood” episode:

Is it just my disc, or does anyone else notice that almost the entire episode (Mrs. Rogers' Neighborhood) flickers on a very noticeable level? I mostly noticed this in the firehouse scenes. Before I try to purchase a separate disc under the assumption that there's a problem with mine, I'd like to make sure that this is just the way the episode is.

Also, in regards to the video quality of some of the other episodes in general, I've been thinking of taking the DVDs to a video editor to eliminate some of the scratches, etc. so that the quality can look good. Any advice on this? Anyone else considered this option?

I'm quite sure that by now, alot of people read this. Is there something wrong with the question posted here? Even one simple reply would have helped.

Some episodes have their own issues. ‘Night Game’ from my own experience, has tracking issues from the Time-Life set. ‘That Old College Spirit’ as many have noticed has print damage.

But do you think that taking these discs to a video editor can fix this? I am seriously considering it.

It's a 23 year old cartoon. How good could it really look even with additional editing?

I'm not sure. Disney did it for Pinnochio and such, so why not clear a few things up for this one? You know…so it could look decent on Hi Def.

unclescoob;154266
I'm not sure. Disney did it for Pinnochio and such, so why not clear a few things up for this one? You know…so it could look decent on Hi Def.

I don't think you can fairly compare a 60+ year old animated motion picture to a 20+ year old cartoon, I imagine the film stock for the film is higher quality… and it's Disney, they have the ability to have a near limitless budget to restore their prints where damaged, Time Life has only so much to spend on the whole set, and there're working with something like 36 times the amount of running time of Pinocchio.

I also imagine that they remasted Pinocchio with the original prints from their vault, Time Life had to work from some second generation prints.


I can't say whether a professional could or couldn't clear things up further, but the thing to bear in mind is the possible time and cost. I'd just buy the set, but that's me (and I did ).

Good point on that, Kingpin. Please don't get me wrong folks, I'm not complaining about the DVDs per-se. The set is great and the 1st season (my fav of all) looks awesome . I just thought that maybe an editor could fix little things (such as the flickering I mentioned in “Mrs. Roger's N-hood”). I guess we're just so used to seeing cartoons in perfect conditions these days that it's conditioned our minds to expect to see the same thing in the oldies. But they DID do SOME restoration on them, did they?

From what I remember reading, they did say some of it was restored.

As for the flickering, can't say I remembered any such flicker in that episode.

unclescoob;154259
But do you think that taking these discs to a video editor can fix this? I am seriously considering it.

no.
a video editor and a digital effects/clean-up artist are two different things; unless you someone who is both.
to do what you ask is very time consuming and expensive by itself, but the episodes would also have to be illegally ripped from the disc to do it.

regarding the flicker, it would most likely be an interlacing problem, which would not show up on progressive lcd/plasma sets.