Season One

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BOX-ART

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MENUS

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AUDIO

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Despite the end credits having a Dolby Surround logo, this DVD is presented in stereo with no matrixing. I'm guessing the original airings would have been Dolby Surround, but they didn't bother properly encoding it on the DVDs? I'm not quite sure what's up with that. (The pilot makes no mention of Dolby Surround, only the rest of the episodes.)

VIDEO

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Despite being filmed, these encodes are definitely from a video tape master. There's quite a bit of grain, both tape and film, and with dot-crawling too. Contrast and colors are decent, maybe a bit muddy. It's about what you'd expect from 90's tape: not great, but passible for a retro presentation. The pilot looks worse than the rest, being a lot softer.

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The final episode on disc four, The Operation, looks as though it's from a PAL master with ghosting artifacts. It looks a tiny bit blurrier, and with an artificially smooth frame-rate. (Hence the PAL master theory.)

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EXTRAS

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Some menu image style extras such as cast bios, series awards, info. about the the town. The main big extra is a documentary about Jane Seymour. I guess with A&E having access to Dr. Quinn & the biography they decided to throw it in as an extra, even if it's not technically about her Dr. Quinn role, there is a segment talking about her time working in the show.

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FINAL THOUGHTS

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I wish they would remaster the series but despite still being shown on TV today, no HD version is available. I'm guessing they did a lot of editing on tape, with the credits, and fade effects, etc. It could also be that they simply archived only the tape, and no longer have the original film. Who know?

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TECH. SPECS.

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                                                                 ASPECT RATIO: 1.33:1 (Original Full-Screen)
                                                           NUMBER OF DISCS: 5
                                                                       DISC SIZE: Dual-Layer
                                                                  REGION CODE: 1 / NTSC

                                                                            AUDIO: English 2.0 (192 KB/s)
                                                                      SUBTITLES: None
                                                                       RUN-TIME: 14 Hours