S3.V3
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Originally posted by LexxLurker:
Actually if you’re in the USA or pickup Sci-Fi USA you can tune in to Series 3 right now. And you can see just how terrible the quality is versus the DVDs. A must have for any Lexx fan
You guys are gonna make me blush.
Actually, I thought that S3V3 was the worst-looking disc of the bunch. The initial test discs we receive from Andrew at Salter Digital’s authoring facilities on DVD-R are truncated, with just a few minutes of the episodes (you can only fit something like 133 minutes maximum of programming on a DVD-R, and there’s not enough room for screens, supplements and episodes…since we’ve already checked VHS dubs of the masters for image quality, we instead test functions and supplements on the DVD-Rs), so we aren’t able to watch the digital presentation of the episodes until the later test disc stage right before replication. I thought that the bit-rate encoding was a bit low, or dipped down too far, and caused some inadvertent digital artifacting. But it was too late to go back and redo the glass master (Salter would have to re-encode everything, which is time-consuming, we’d have to re-check the functionality on DVD-R to make sure that nothing got messed up in the re-encode, we’d have to get a new glass master created, and we’d have to wait for the new test discs to be replicated…it would have added at least another month to the process, and we simply didn’t have the time to do it), so we had to go with what we had. It’s not horrible by any means, but after talking to Andrew about it (we both usually pay pretty strict attention to the bit-rate transfer on the discs), he made sure to see that S3V4 looked better. That one, my friends, is the best-looking LEXX disc we’ve done. It rocks the casbah.
–Aleck