X files blu ray box set7/12/2023 ![]() With better compression and colour fidelity, that is usually the case. You upscale the SD footage to HD, and hope that it looks better than the SD quality of the DVDs. There is the Andromeda/Farscape way, which you opt for if you have no money, or have lost the original film. Go back to the original film elements, reconstruct the show in native high definition, and when it comes to special effects, do them over from scratch. There is the Star Trek: The Next Generation way, which is to throw some serious money at it. When it comes to revisiting post film-pre-HD TV shows for HD presentation, there are three ways of doing things. There comes a point where a more robust storage medium is called for. I’ve already had to buy Season 2 on DVD three times, thanks to DVD delamination. Actually, there is another reason why I’ve upgraded to Blu-ray, aside from the obvious attraction of a widescreen high definition image, and lossless audio. ![]() You also get some more extra features from the TV movie discs, those standalone releases that turned two part episodes into 90-minute features for release. ![]() They also got some new extra features and commentaries to go with them, and the Blu-ray collection now consolidates most of the extra features from all of the prior DVD releases. These boxsets collected the mythology arcs, The Abduction, Black Oil, Colonisation, and Supersoldier episodes, leaving out the majority of the stand-alone stories. The US market had another go at the X-Files on DVD back in 2005, when the Mythology collections were released. I was surprised to find a commentary that I had never heard on the first disc. When I had a quick look at the discs, it looked as if it was just the episodes in HD, with the extras ported over from the DVDs, with nothing new in that respect for those of us who own the show in SD format. This review might actually have been even shorter.
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