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Posted 1 August 2023
Babylon 5: The Complete Series [BLU-RAY]
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All 110 Original Episodes Fully Remastered! Available on Blu-Ray™ For the First Time Ever on December 4, 2023.
2258 CE. Five hostile federations dominate the outermost regions of space. Heroes, thieves, and rare and exotic beings find refuge in this time of uneasy peace and the constant threat of war on a lone space station - the last and best hope for peace between a hundred worlds, alien and human alike - Babylon 5.
Features pilot movie "The Gathering" and the main five seasons of the show, does not include the never remastered:
In the Beginning (tv movie - prequel)
River of Souls (tv movie - season 3)
Thirdspace (tv movie - season 3)
Call to Arms (tv movie - after season 5)
Crusade (spin-off sequel series - after Call to Arms)
Legend of the Rangers (failed future set spin-off pilot)
The Lost Tales (direct to DVD anthology 'episodes' movie)
The Road Home (August 2023 animated movie)
+ All commentary tracks found in the original DVD 'Ultimate Collection' boxset (which has all the above minus 'The Road Home').
Twitter statement from the show creator "...the release includes The Gathering (but not the movies or Crusade) because TG was our pilot (technically the first) episode, so it's a legit part of the series which fits the title mandate; the other movies were separate, and Crusade is a completely different series, so it doesn't belong in this box set.
This is essentially the same as the very nice 4:3 remaster done for HBO-Max, which matches the original broadcast, but putting it onto Blu-Ray increases the bitrate so it should look even better than it did there. WB wanted to include the commentaries but with everything else involved with this, it apparently wasn't feasible (that's the extent of what I was told, so I've no idea what that entails).
What matters is that after years of asking for a Blu-Ray release, which will make this show look more beautiful than it ever has before. Fans can now own the full series in pristine form on physical media without being held hostage by the whims of streamers. I'm very excited by this release, as it further assures the legacy of Babylon 5. Onward!"
All 110 Original Episodes Fully Remastered! Available on Blu-Ray™ For the First Time Ever on December 4, 2023.
2258 CE. Five hostile federations dominate the outermost regions of space. Heroes, thieves, and rare and exotic beings find refuge in this time of uneasy peace and the constant threat of war on a lone space station - the last and best hope for peace between a hundred worlds, alien and human alike - Babylon 5.
Features pilot movie "The Gathering" and the main five seasons of the show, does not include the never remastered:
In the Beginning (tv movie - prequel)
River of Souls (tv movie - season 3)
Thirdspace (tv movie - season 3)
Call to Arms (tv movie - after season 5)
Crusade (spin-off sequel series - after Call to Arms)
Legend of the Rangers (failed future set spin-off pilot)
The Lost Tales (direct to DVD anthology 'episodes' movie)
The Road Home (August 2023 animated movie)
+ All commentary tracks found in the original DVD 'Ultimate Collection' boxset (which has all the above minus 'The Road Home').
Twitter statement from the show creator "...the release includes The Gathering (but not the movies or Crusade) because TG was our pilot (technically the first) episode, so it's a legit part of the series which fits the title mandate; the other movies were separate, and Crusade is a completely different series, so it doesn't belong in this box set.
This is essentially the same as the very nice 4:3 remaster done for HBO-Max, which matches the original broadcast, but putting it onto Blu-Ray increases the bitrate so it should look even better than it did there. WB wanted to include the commentaries but with everything else involved with this, it apparently wasn't feasible (that's the extent of what I was told, so I've no idea what that entails).
What matters is that after years of asking for a Blu-Ray release, which will make this show look more beautiful than it ever has before. Fans can now own the full series in pristine form on physical media without being held hostage by the whims of streamers. I'm very excited by this release, as it further assures the legacy of Babylon 5. Onward!"
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Edited by zippy99, 2 August 2023
29 Comments
sorted byDVDs are a mess with cropped picture and rubbish visual FX.
The blu-ray set should be the best it will ever look and an improvement over the HD streaming versions due to the higher bit rate encoding.
Set is bare bones though, so no special features or commentaries that are on the DVDs.
(Are you still here? Good as there'll be a test) (edited)
The original cgi was done by foundation imaging on 20 Amiga's using lightwave by newtek. Then they used something called a rapter farm, that sent all the lightwave data from the Amiga over a network to a load of Dec alpha boxes to render everything faster than the Amiga could do it!
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Updated the main post to list all the content that didn't make the cut. 'In the Beginning' and 'Call to Arms' are so essential it's like releasing Star Wars and not including Empire. (edited)
Cmdr Sinclair (Michael O'Hare) aged 60
Garibaldi (Jerry Doyle) aged 60
Dr Franklin (Richard Biggs) aged 44
G'Kar (Andreas Katsulas) aged 59
Vir Cotto (Stephen Furst) aged 63
Zack Allan (Jeff Conaway) aged 60
Delenn (Mira Furlan) aged 65
Strange not to have the Babylon 5 station on artwork cover.
Quite surprised at the major drop for the UK.
- Tried the 15% WB newsletter signup trick, code doesn't apply for anyone curious. (edited)
It's a shame they never did a game based on this. Could of been interesting.