"First time I've watched it in its entirety since the Second Season was released on DVD (November 2009! Where does the time go?). I've watched the odd episode here and there, caught them on TV by chance a few times.

I didn't think it was possible, but its even better than I remember it being. Even the much talked about Sarah centric episodes, they were thoroughly enjoyable (especially compared to what is on our TV screens these days.) I watch it now, and I'm glad we got TSCC at all, even though it was only around for a brief period of time. As the saying goes, the light that shines twice as bright, shines for half as long (or something along those lines!) Although the last episode still upset me, knowing that was where the story ended.

1. Obviously, there's no chance of it starting up again now. But by heck, that was a great TV show."

"First time I've watched it in its entirety since the Second Season was released on DVD (November 2009! Where does the time go?). I've watched the odd episode here and there, caught them on TV by chance a few times.

I didn't think it was possible, but its even better than I remember it being. Even the much talked about Sarah centric episodes, they were thoroughly enjoyable (especially compared to what is on our TV screens these days.) I watch it now, and I'm glad we got TSCC at all, even though it was only around for a brief period of time. As the saying goes, the light that shines twice as bright, shines for half as long (or something along those lines!) Although the last episode still upset me, knowing that was where the story ended.

Obviously, there's no chance of it starting up again now. But by heck, that was a great TV show."

"I also did a re-watch of my TSCC blu-rays a few months ago.
And I'd say TSCC is like a precious wine. It's getting better with age ... :-)
Seriously, it was fantastic to watch it again. For sure TSCC is one of few series (another would be Firefly/Serenity), which I'll be able to watch from time to time again and again.
And in a way I even made my peace with the finale. Though there's a lot to be answered left, nothing on the other hand is finally ruined. A lot would still be possible.
For me the finale of TSCC is way more preferable than e. g. the (long planned!!???) crappy finale of Lost, which probably will keep me from watching Lost ever again.
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"I found the Blu-ray seems to have more detail.

When I am trying to examine a frame in detail, I can see small things in the image better with Blu-ray. For example, in Automatic for the People, when Sarah and Cameron have to show their driver's licenses to enter the nuclear plant, I was able to read more of the information from Cameron's license. (See at time mark 00:18 of the following vid:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln_0j15eaug"

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I'm just remembering that probably exactly you said there's no difference in quality (BD vs DVD) with Firefly.
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"1. In the case of TSCC I'd definitely say it's worth to buy the Blu-rays. TNT described it quite well. You can see the improvement in quality especially when you look at details like text or surfaces of things. But it's of course essential to watch it on a TV or screen with full High Definition resolution (1920x1080) to be able to actually enjoy the improvements.

2. The problem with the Firefly Blu-rays is the source material. When they produced Firefly in 2002 they probably didn't use camera equipment with high definition resolution, because at that time HDTV was not used in TV yet. So for a Blu-ray edition (for marketing reasons Blu-ray sounds always good ;-)) they usually project the old small definition material to HD definition by software. Sometimes the results are rather good, sometimes they aren't. In the case of Firefly I think they could have saved the time. The result is not really a seeable progress compared to the DVD resolution. To be honest, I even had known this before I bought the Firefly Blu-rays.

3. I still did it out of enthusiasm for Firefly and to show my support. I also ordered the Firefly special collector's DVD edition directly in the U.S., because it never was released in Germany.
Besides Firefly TSCC is the only series, of which I deliberately own the DVDs as well as the Blu-rays, because I simply think they deserve to get my money for such juwels of TV entertainment.

4. Oh, and don't forget, the movie Serenity is a completely different story. Serenity is definitely a must-have on Blu-ray. The quality improvement is impressing when you watch it on a big HD screen. It was simply amazing, when a first did .... aahhh, now I'm having the scene with the Serenity in space right before my eyes and I'm close to watching my Serenity Blu-ray again .... wow, is it possible to have a crush for a spaceship ... well, maybe in some kind of way ... ;-))"

"I've just found these info on wikipedia.
Tape formats
Betacam This is probably the one I remember. The 1997 digital version (Betacam HDCAM) supports up to the resolution of 1440x1080.
If they used the 1997 HDCAM, it should be easy to extract a video much better than the DVD quality by the original tapes, the de facto standard was 5 already years old in 2002...
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"1. I COULD BE WRONG BUT TV SHOWS...CAPS are all filmed in 35 mm film. soaps are filmed with digital cameras.

2. the quality of the original films would vary due to lighting, and direction, equipment and film.any show can be improved, but would have limits.

3. Blueray is mainly for larger tv screens, once you go past a 32 inch screen a regular dvd will start to show imperfections, but a blue ray will show a smoother picture.
On a small screen you might see more detail on some things, but for just watching a show, regular dvds are fine for the smaller tvs or computer monitors.
And they will put anything on blue ray and it may or may not be enchanced, they just know people will buy it again on blue ray.

5. So about the firefly bluerays, they may not have been enchanced like they could have been?
Or they may not have been enchanced at all, just put on blue ray to sell them again.
And not being enchanced they would still look a little better but not much.

6. To properly enchance a film is a expensive process, and then imagine doing 22 hours of a tv show, or with firefly about 13 hours.
Therefore i THINK MOST ARE NOT ENCHANCED prior to putting them on blueray.
The BR just naturally allows for higher resolution,more pixels per frame so the look better on big screens.</div>
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