[78-L] For old timey TV fans..slight 78RPM connection

[Jeff Sultanof]

Timeless Media issued two 'best-of' boxed sets of Checkmate, and they are
putting out the complete box. I rented the DVDs of the  'best-of ' boxes
from Netflix, and the quality was decent to very good. What is sad is that
Timeless paid a license fee to Universal (the boxes are so credited) but
Universal probably did not supply prints. I can understand that for them it
would have been expensive to make new prints of these shows, but the quality
is still variable; certainly better that the pirated stuff that is out
there, but not what it should be. The same problem is evident for M-Squad -
some prints are so bad that Timeless has a card at the beginning that this
is the best quality they were able to find for that particular episode; some
even come from VHS copies. BTW, a piece of trivia: Checkmate was produced by
Jack Benny's production company.

I have my eye on the box for the show "Medic." I've become a real Richard
Boone fan in the last few years - an incredible actor and acting teacher.

Jeff Sultanof

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:15 AM, Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>wrote:

> I recently purchased the first series of "Checkmate" on a pirated set.
> The quality is so-so, but I see Amazon at
> http://www.amazon.com/Checkmate-Complete-DVD-Over-Hours/dp/B003K1NGXE
> have the whole series at $49.99.
>
> Does anyone have this set to comment on the quality?
>
>      Julian Vein
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