Robocop: The Compete Series (5-Disc Special Edition) [Blu-ray]

Good shipping, came with other items in a box, so no damage to packaging. Arrived when expected. The series itself was entertaining and more family friendly than the movies.

If you’re a fan of RoboCop, this is a really fun watch. Yes, it’s far more tame than the 1987 original or it’s sequels, but this series has charm. It’s wonderfully cheap and campy. If you go in with that mindset, you’ll have a good laugh and not leave disappointed.Only bummer, which isn’t on Amazon, but there really aren’t any special features to speak of so it’s a pretty bare bones release.

Knowing I have seen ALL (3) ROBOCOP Movies, this TV series shows the continuing ways of our Part Man, Part Machine, ALL COP hero doing what all (3) films showed: what to do in the line duty.

Well it's a made for TV version of the RoboCop saga, it is well written using cues inspired from the first Robo Cop movie. It has action suitable for even young people, gunplay yes but really no killing, humor and heart. It is well written considering it's written like the first RoboCop movie. I have a single complaint here though. The quality of the master is lacking, the picture is grainy and not film quality. If you are a RoboCop fan like I am, ignoring the visual aspects, it is terrific. If the visuals were the quality, I expected I would have given a higher rating. I waited years for a blue-ray version of this, makers take note this is worthy of a better copy for its fans like me.

I would love to add some screenshots or so, but Amazon always blocks the reviews.Packaging: 3/5 - All discs are in a single plastic holder the same size as a PS4/Xbox Game case, thankfully it's plastic holders / folders inside and the discs seem to stay put. Not as bad as the MASH Martini's edition where it was cardboard.Video Quality: 2/5 - I think this ranks right up there with Stargate SG-1's terrible "BluRay" release. In the fact that the Stargate SG-1 dvd's are better quality even when upscaled than the bluray. For RoboCop The Series. I have no idea what the source content looked like, but this appears to be almost a VHS to BluRay conversion?Sound: 1/5 - As stated, not sure as I haven't seen the original airing of the show or DVD's but man there's something jank with the audio. I want to say it's the original audio and mixing. This appears to be a very very low budget show. When I was watching a few scenes, I swore this was probably a Troma Films production. It's on the level of ridiculousness as Toxic Avenger.Value: 0/5 - I feel like I probably should have hit the high seas for this, but it's not even available there yet. I really wish they would have just transferred some OAR and left everything the same.Overall. You can pass on the BluRay release. I have no idea where the 44mbps is going to each of these episodes to be over 10gb each.

Rating is for the series ONLY, not the presentation. Watched and enjoyed the whole series when it originally aired in syndication and even recorded it on VHS at the time.Planning to buy, but facing a tough decision. While I would prefer the higher resolution of the Blu-Ray remaster, I am bothered by image area loss thru cropping of any kind. Whether it's cropping top and/or bottom to fit widescreen proportions or cropping sides/pan & scan to fit a widescreen image into 4:3 proprotions.Higher resolution image vs disruption of the original image composition and staging. May order the DVD set to get the full original picture, but may end up being annoyed by the black sidebars framing the 4:3 picture.

The mastering on this release is truly baffling and done with complete incompetance. That said let’s get some things straight.First of all these were not scanned from film sources even though it was initially filmed on 35mm film but were transfered from broadcast videotape masters. The reason for this is because most standard definintion low budget TV shows of that era were shot on film but finished and edited in post-production on videotape. The reason is because it was much cheaper and quicker to turn around. There is evidence of this in the transfer. Lots of aliasing (candycane strobbing) and artifacting. It would have been extremely costly to go back and scan the original 35mm film elements (which very likely no longer exist) and completely re-edit and do costly post-production restoration on a show like this compared to money maker shows like Star Trek: The Next Generation and The X-Files which had to be completely re-done from original film negatives and had the financial resources of major studios involved in their painstaking HD restoration.The issue of the cropping of the original aspect ratio OAR from 1:33 to 1:78 is grossly apparent. What is even more apparent is that they left the end credits in 1:33 OAR and the picture quality on the end credits is superior to the picture quality of the rest of the show and is evidence that they should have just kept the entire show in 1:33 OAR upconverted from the original broadcast master videotapes.There are also long 10 second gaps of black in between acts where commercial breaks were to be inserted by local syndicated broadcast affiliates that were not edited out which is really annoying. It’s like they did the transfers on auto-pilot and made no edits to remove the black gaps so that each act fades out and then immediately fades back in yet they clearly edited the end credits to preserve the 1:33 OAR. Sadly the end credits have the best picture quality of the entire presentation.They at least included some decent bonus features and a toy commercial which is more than most bare-bones TV show releases seem to get nowadays so that’s something. I’ll give them back 1 star for the extras but sadly this release is atrocious. My old laserdisc copies look superior to this running them through my 4k upscaler and they are preserved in the correct 1:33 OAR.Whoever made the boneheaded decision to crop these in 1:78 but keep the end credits in the correct 1:33 OAR needs to be fired. They clearly have no clue what they are doing in this business.

Those of us who are collectors, want our TV series in the original format. On this Blu-ray they have blown up the image to fill the entire screen. That means almost all the heads or cut off and some of the text at the bottom of the screen is missing.. why just put it in the original floor mat and I’ll zoom and if I want to fill the screen.

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The Original 4:3 footage has been cropped to 16:9 because its for some reason better to have "Widescreen" then missing out on part of the screen.I've always hated Pan and Scan (I understand why it exited in the 80s because Television screens in the past weren't as large as they are now) But there should have never been such a thing as "Widescreen" DVDs and especially Blu Rays, On most Modern 120hz Scan 16:9 CRT TVs (Late 90s Ealy 00s) they had the ability to zoom and move the picture around (Some DVD players also had this ability), Even more on Plasmas or at the very least turn on Overscan (Which zooms it in a little) so it makes no sense to me why you would need a DVD with missing parts of the video in order to fill out the screen, Why didn't people just use the tools they had on the TV.Many Many people get "Resolution" and "Aspect Ratio" mixed up, Some people think that 16:9 Aspect Ratio means "HD" and therefore its somehow better but they're wrong and I'm a Minority in this opinion, More people disagree with me that seeing the full uncropped unedited image is better than having a filled out screen.

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Sadly, the only cool thing about this Blu-ray box is the box itself as this is the version with the incorrect aspect ratio. Practically, it is a waste of money. So, avoid it like the plague.

First problem with this release is that the original aspect ratio was 4:3. In order to achieve "widescreen," this Blu is zoomed in, thereby cutting off the top and bottom of the original picture, giving you only about 50% of the original image, give or take.Second problem is that this is not in the least high def. If it was 'scanned from negatives,' it was definitely scanned from a tape copy. It looks like VHS quality.I wanted this to be good. I wanted my dreams to come true. Instead I got this. I'm sorry to say but avoid this completely.