Customer Reviews

LOST IN SPACE

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The disc is not 1080p. It's 1080i. But you can upconvert it to 1080p and the pic looks great. I could easily tell the difference when A/B-ing between interlaced and progressive, but the progressive looked as good as if the disc was 1080p because the progressive upconversion just adds more lines to an already great interlaced resolution.

In case you are questioning my observation/expertise, I am a lifelong video/audiophile and my comparisions of the above were observed on a Pioneer 60" Kuro Plasma set.

The audio is DTS Master Audio 5.1, but you will have to set the audio to this format because the disc doesn't default to the highest audio rez.

Also, if your Blu-ray player is set to auto, it may default to 1080i, as mine did, so you will have to manually set your player to 1080p. As I noted above, there is a big picture difference between the two video resolutions.

Outside of set up issues, you will probably not be able to tell the difference between the Canadian release and the upcoming US release.

Only the set up hassles are different.

Did I say the price is right?

Oh, as for MovieMars, you may not get a reply, but I just ordered the movie and they sent it to me in a reasonable amount of time. No problems.

You want your stupid questions answered for $10 buck. Give me a break!

Looking forward to the US release, but for those who can't wait, you can get the "bare bones" movie only Canadian release. Soundtrack is in DTS-MA, which should blow you away (I have the DTS laserdisc which is absolutely outstanding).

Amazon said it would come today, but it came yesterday! Kudos to MovieMars!

I (and my Blu-Ray player) spent the rest of the day watching/running through Lost in Space in High-Definition. It's even better than the DVD!

PICTURE: This is the original Canadian Alliance release, which has no menus and is in 1080i, but superior picture quality to the American Warner (The new official release), which has menus and is in 1080p, but with altered picture quality that I don't like. (I've seen comparison screencaps, and to me the Alliance looks better than the Warner even in 720p)

Edit: Okay, I'm probably confusing you with this stuff. So to explain, the Warner has superior VIDEO QUALITY, as it has progressive 1920x1080 frames, as opposed to the Alliance's interlaced 1920x1080 frames. However, the PICTURE QUALITY, the quality of the individual frames, is what I'm talking about. The Warner's frames are slightly but noticeably darkened, unlike the Alliance, which truly looks like a film reel, right down to the occasional tiny chemical splotch. Also, the Alliance preserves the film's 2.35:1 aspect ratio, whereas the Warner crops it into a 2.40:1 ratio. A minor detail, but worth mentioning.

Dan Boone's review here said that the Alliance version, when upconverted to 1080p, looks just as good as if it was native to 1080p, although the whole 1080i vs. 1080p issue isn't really important on a 720p TV. Still, I'll remember it when a 1080p TV happens to fall into my hands.

SOUND: The sound on the 5.1 MA track is louder than the 5.1 Standard track, but sadly, as I don't have a surround sound system, that's all I have to say about the audio.

CONS: At start-up, I have to go through a 12-second warning sign, the 17-second Alliance logo, a 6-second pop-up menu guide, and the 17-second Alliance logo AGAIN before the movie starts playing! That's an extra 52-seconds of waiting to watch the movie every time you start the disc, and you can't skip anything until the actual movie starts!

There are little white speckles on a few of the frames, but that's nothing that reducing the sharpness can't fix.

In the middle of once scene, with John and Maureen kissing on their bed before saying "Good Night", the picture freezes and continues from a point that matches the audio. Possibly a minor rendering error...

BOTTOM LINE: If you think unaltered picture quality (like an upconvertible 1080i60 version of the DVD) is important enough to sacrifice menus, get the Canadian Alliance. If you think menus and a native 1080p24 format are important enough to also have to live through slightly bleeding blacks, get the American Warner. Or you could get both and watch either one depending on your mood.

I really like this release, but it'd be cool if someday there would be a release that blows both this and the current American version out of the water in both transfer quality (1080p, 7.1 MA, no picture alterations) AND extras (If an isolated score is one of them, I'll definitely be in line for it).

Hope this helps!

In the first episode of Lost In Space (1965) the Narrator says, "ELECTROMAGNETIC MIRACLES NOW COME INTO PLAY..." He wasn't just talking about the Freezing Tubes. Irwin Allen had the guts to show Atomically Powered Magnetic Anti Gravity Engines.

When the Jupiter 2 lifts off in the 1965 TV Series, no one ever talks about this, but you can See it and Hear it, and I think that's pretty awesome. You can hear the Magnetic Engines in many episodes as the ship lifts off, or hovers, or crash lands. You can also hear the Magnetic Engines loud and clear one or two times when John and Don are working on them from a console outside the ship. The Time Tunnel has the exact same wonderful sound effect when it's charging to transport Tony and Doug. Anyway...

In This MESS of a movie, the ship takes off with Rockets, and then Star Trek Nacelles pop out for Light Speed, exactly as they do on the Voyager ship!! I love Voyager, but they clearly ripped off this design aspect from the Voyager ship as if no one would notice. Voyager began in 1995. This movie was made in 1998.

If you Never saw the first season of Lost In Space (1965), this movie is not so great, but if you Have seen the first season of Lost In Space, this movie is HIDEOUS!!!

In this movie, The Robot has the personality of a Toaster. Debbie the Bloop is a ridiculous, very badly animated cartoon character. A big part of what happens in the second half of this movie is so completely absurd that it cannot be enjoyed.

ARGH!!! If you paid me $100 I MIGHT watch this movie again, but $1,000 would not make me enjoy it.

I ask moviemars about this movie. Amazon says it will be released in Sept, yet, moviemars has it now, why?
They just blew me off without an answer. I ordered it any way, if it is not a good copy I will send it back.
They do not seem to care about the customer, only the money. I will probably not order any more movies from these moron? They say it is from the studio, but, if it is so, why does Amazon not have it at this time. I hope it is not
pirate copy?

This is a great and entertaining movie, however when sellers of this blu ray version are emailed and asked questions they simply do not respond; the questions asked were simple, such as, where was it made, what languages does it offer, does it go to 1080P or 1080I, can it do German. However no response to any emails, I would suggest buyer beware, when the seller tends to ignore any questions about thier product. I am geussing that the product is an import, so ask questions before you buy about everything, like resolution, languages, pressing origination, and quality of picture.