The Twilight Zone - Season 4 Blu-ray
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The Twilight Zone - Season 4
[Blu-ray]
Review by Gary Tooze
Production:
Television: CBS
(Created by Rod Serling - Season 4
- 1963)
Video: Image Entertainment
Disc:
Region: 'A'-locked
(as verified by the
Momitsu region FREE Blu-ray player)
Random Episode Runtime: 0:52:21.513
Disc 1 (of 5) Size: 47,044,624,488 bytes
Random Episode Size: 10,069,662,720 bytes
Video Bitrate: 20.00 Mbps
Chapters: 7 per episode (18 episodes in total)
Case: Standard (thick) Blu-ray case
Release date: May 17th, 2011
Video:
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 matted to 1.78
Resolution: 1080p / 23.976 fps
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Audio:
Subtitles:
English (SDH), none
Extras:
New, Blu-ray
exclusive features:
•
Bitrate:
Product Description: All 18 episodes of the fourth season of
Rod Serling’s classic, groundbreaking series, now presented
in pristine high-definition for the first time ever, along
with hours of new and exclusive bonus features not available
anywhere else! Episodes: In His Image, The Thirty-Fathom
Grave, Valley of the Shadow, He's Alive, Mute, Death Ship,
Jess-Belle, Miniature, Printer's Devil, No Time Like the
Past, The Parallel, I Dream of Genie, The New Exhibit, Of
Late I Think of Cliffordville, The Incredible World of
Horace Ford, On Thursday We Leave for Home, Passage on the
Lady Anne, and The Bard.
The Series:
LPCM Audio English 1536 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps /
16-bit
LPCM Audio English 1536 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps /
16-bit
•
Vintage Audio Interview
with director of photography George T. Clemens
•
Audio Commentaries by
Marc Scott Zicree for Death Ship and William Windom
for Miniature
•
Vintage Audio Recollections with Herbert Hirschman, Ross
Martin, Burgess Meredith, Pat Hingle, Earl Hamner, Buzz
Kulik and Anne Francis
•
Video Interviews with
Morgan Brittany, Anne Francis, Paul Comi and John Furia, Jr.
•
7 Radio Dramas
featuring Blair Underwood, Jason Alexander, Lou Diamond
Phillips, H. M. Wynant, Mike Starr, Barry Bostwick and John
Ratzenberger
•
Isolated Scores for all
18 episodes featuring Fred Steiner, Van Cleave, Rene
Garriguenc and others
•
Rod Serling Promos for
“Next Week’s” Show
•
Rod Serling Blooper
from He’s Alive
•
Saturday Night Live
Clip
•
The Famous Writers
School Promo with Rod Serling
•
Genesee Beer Spot
•
Twilight Zone Season 4
Billboards
"The Twilight Zone"
is unquestionably one of the greatest science fiction
television shows of all time. Generally speaking, most
episodes had strong elements of deeply imagined science,
suspense and thought-provoking intrigue.
Creator Serling had a unique and distinctive approach to the
central themes of the show(s)... and it was a hit, right
from its onset. A virtual spring board for many young and
talented actors/actresses the original Twilight Zone
has run successfully in syndication ever since. Most
everyone has a favorite episode. For me The Twilight Zone
original series represents pioneering television with a
strong nostalgic and noirish-ly dark feel to it.
Gary W. Tooze
out
of
Image :
NOTE:
The below
Blu-ray
captures were taken directly from the
Blu-ray
disc.
The 18 Episodes are now double the length at about 52-minutes each (unsyndicated) and take up about 10 Gig in size - with 4 episodes per dual-layered disc. With this longer-episode format bitrates are higher than the previous 3 seasons ranging around 20 Mbps. There is not much noise and look very impressive. Unlike Season Two I didn't see any that were taped on video. All episodes are consistent with strong grayscale. This is probably in advance of Seasons one and Two Blu-ray editions and probably as good as Season Three in the new format. The transfers occasionally show some nice grain and there is no chroma evident. There are 5 dual-layered disc in the set with the last having only 2 episodes and more supplements.
CLICK EACH BLU-RAY CAPTURE TO SEE ALL IMAGES IN FULL 1920X1080 RESOLUTION
Subtitle Sample
Dana Andrews in 'No Time Like the Past'
Mike Kellin in The Thirty-Fathom Grave!
Jack Albertson seeking safe haven in The Shelter
James Doohan (yes, 'Scotty'!) in Valley of the Shadow
Stalwart TV actor Ed Nelson
Dennis Hopper in 'He's Alive'
Percy Helton in Mute
Jack Klugman in Death Ship
Robert Duvall in Miniature
William Windom (oft remembered as Commodore Matthew
Decker in TOS)
Burgess Meredith in Printer's Devil
Jack Albertson in 'I Dream of Genie'
Martin Balsam in 'The New Exhibit'
Julie Newmar (memorable as 'Catwoman') as Miss Devlin in
'Of Late I Think of Cliffordville'
James Whitmore in 'On Thursday We Leave for Home'
Lee Philips in 'Passage on the Lady Anne'
Burt Reynolds in 'The Bard'
Frankly, I've
only sampled some of the new commentaries - but enjoyed the
Saturday Night Live
Clip and Blooper from He’s Alive.
Plus there is so much more with
BOTTOM LINE:
Gary Tooze
May 7th, 2011
Audio :
Audio
is offered in a linear PCM (lossless) available and
while some of the DVD transfers sounded tinny - this is clear and quite consistent
showing some perceived depth but no range.
Like the previous -
the subtitle font used is larger and higher up on the screen (see sample
above) than usual
but I do appreciate them being positioned under the speaker (like
Universal does). Isolated scores are available and sound solid. They
are English SDH only.
My
Momitsu
has identified the package as containing all region
'A'-locked discs -
as we expected.
Extras :
Truly there are only maybe 2 or 3 'mediocre' episodes here... the
rest are excellent. On Thursday We Leave for Home,
Passage on the Lady Anne, Of Late I Think of Cliffordville,
The New Exhibit, The Parallel, No Time Like the Past,
Printer's Devil, Miniature, Jess-Belle, Death Ship, He's
Alive, Valley of the Shadow, The Thirty-Fathom Grave and
In His Image,
- are all way above-average television. It's
nice to see so many familiar faces in the casts.
These sets continue to hold a lot of value. The
Blu-ray package has a very high recommendation. Those who own the previous
sets know what they are in for - hours and hours of some of
the best TV of all time. Step away from 'Reality' shows and
sink back into the elaborate world of human imagination -
with all pistons firing! The fourth season is impressive and
we very strongly recommended!