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Rating:  -
While Season 1 Volume 1 of this series had very good audio and video, Season 1, Volume 2 is a bit different. The video is fine, but the audio "clips" at the extremes.
While I am personally thrilled that this series is finally out on DVD, I hope that the remaining part of the series release is edited for both video and audio in a much more thorough fashion.
Can't wait for Seasons 2 through 4 to come out, but overall quality does count. Seeing gasoline for 23 cents a gallon and premium tires for a whopping $45 a tire is as nostalgic and real as seeing America in the early 1960's.
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I would gladly give an intelligently produced release of Route 66 five stars. It ranks with the best American TV has to offer. Unfortunately, Kirk Hallam/Roxbury have chosen to disappoint AGAIN. The first 66 set featured mostly poor quality prints, as well as an edited episode. Mr. Hallam has subsequently explained that this was due to pre-Christmas release deadlines. OK, I'll buy that tale, but artificially altering the aspect ratio? Why??? How could a person who is involved in the creative process (Hallam is a film producer) approve such a bastardization of other people's artistic efforts? How would Hallam feel about someone doing that to one of HIS projects? Disgusting. Perhaps the next half- season can be colorized. Obviously Hallam has little/no appreciation for this series or it's historical context (witness the amateurish "Drive-In Theater" menu screens). I just wish Image had produced these sets. Buyer beware.
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Video transfer is great but a letterbox format for an old nostalgic tv show, I don't think so!Its annoying to watch,those black bars!Too bad!!Looks like it was done because we are at the drive in. Look!! Here comes Tod and Buz right now!You do gain side to side video but lose a little top and bottom, should have been a side B added feature with full screen on side A. If you have a widescreen tv its great.
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Make that five stars for the show itself, which gets better with every episode.
The two stars is for Roxbury/Infinity's unaccountable botch job with the fake widescreen aspect ratio. Who thought that trimming the image at the top and bottom was a good idea? It's not: As with Warner's first-season set of "Kung Fu," which was similarly mutilated, it's distracting and disrespectful and makes me regret that I bought the set.
If you haven't yet, consider renting it instead -- or better yet, complain to the company and maybe they'll fix it for a rerelease. Sheesh.
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Hands down, "Route 66" was one of the greatest dramas produced in television's golden age. The acting, writing, and production values for this "show-on-the-go" were trend setting for its time and still resonate strongly with this viewer . . . . . surely a five star series if ever there was one. And that's why it pains me to give this second release from Roxbury Entertainment and the Infinity Entertainment Group only three stars.
The good news is that the visual quality for the episodes contained in this second volume represents an improvement over those in volume 1, at least based upon my viewing of the first two episodes (a good two-parter titled "Fly Away Home" with the great Michael Rennie) and spot checking other episodes. The visuals aren't in the same eye-popping category as some other shows from the era that have been released on DVD like the "The Untouchables" or "The Fugitive," but they still look pretty good to my eyes and represent an improvement over the vast majority of the episodes contained in volume 1. The extra features contained in volume 2 follow the same format as the first volume, cast credits and episode clips (to help you identify the actors) and early 1960s era commercials on disc 4.
Now for the bad news, Roxbury and/or Infinity have matted the top and bottom of the episodes to give it a FAKE WIDESCREEN look. So in certain scenes, the tops of the actors' heads are missing. This might not be so readily apparent to viewers who have never seen the show, but after releasing the first 15 episodes in volume 1 in the correct, full-screen aspect ratio, it becomes glaringly apparent. Even the bonus commercials on disc 4 are matted! I don't have the slightest idea as to why Roxbury/Infinity decided to go with this format, but if anyone from either of these companies happen to read these reviews, please do not matte any further volumes . . . . . serious viewers of "Route 66" want to be able to watch this series in its original, full-screen aspect ratio as originally broadcast. Had this second volume been released in its correct aspect ratio, without the matted effect, I would most certainly have given this release a full five stars.
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