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The Little Mermaid is the most likely title as many of the people here guess.

It is going to be massive promotion for this title starting as soon as Cinderella is released !

Really exciting news about Gargoyles! I doubt we'll see it before the year is up. More likely winter or spring of next year.

I still remember going to the San Diego Comic Con in 2004 and picking up a promotional flyer for season 1...8 years ago!

My goodness! invest in some Xanax or Vicodin and calm the heck down! jeez! some of you people are too freakin' negative and just itchin' to be in a foul mood

Since your last post there's been one slightly negative one, and several extremely positive ones.

justcuttinhair wrote:My goodness! invest in some Xanax or Vicodin and calm the heck down! jeez! some of you people are too freakin' negative and just itchin' to be in a foul mood

OR (as already explained) we don't really accept 'news' with no source. I could start a similar thread claiming Disney is going to release a final wave of Disney treasures to complete the collection and choose not to reveal my source.

I get that there's a big chance you're right, hence why you're offended. But you can't really blame us for not buying into this. For now, it's a rumor.

PatrickvD wrote:

justcuttinhair wrote:My goodness! invest in some Xanax or Vicodin and calm the heck down! jeez! some of you people are too freakin' negative and just itchin' to be in a foul mood

OR (as already explained) we don't really accept 'news' with no source. I could start a similar thread claiming Disney is going to release a final wave of Disney treasures to complete the collection and choose not to reveal my source.

I get that there's a big chance you're right, hence why you're offended. But you can't really blame us for not buying into this. For now, it's a rumor.

Ditto. We are not being negative or in dire need of Xanax or Vicodin. In the past, people have come to this forum claiming to have insider scoop on the latest Disney news, and when confronted with claims of an official source, they always say "sorry, can't tell you". The internet is a big place to come in and claim things that are not the truth, especially if it is done to rile up fan speculation and expectations.

That's why until proof of this claim rises, and Disney confirms that the rest of the Disney Afternoon series will be available soon, this will remain a rumor in my eyes.

But if he has source who works as insider then he won't be able to reveal anything don't you think ?

Will anyone contact Disney Home Entertainment and ask them ? I don't live in USA otherwise i'd call myself.

I have no idea if this is true (though I hope it is), but I have noticed in the past few weeks that the existing Disney Afternoon releases of Darkwing, Chip 'N Dale, Ducktales, etc. have really made a comeback on store shelves. I've been to four different Future Shop locations in and around Toronto in the past 3 weeks, and all of them have multiple copies of each lining the children's DVD section.

I wonder if there will be blu ray release as well.

A Blu-Ray release wouldn't serve much purpose; I doubt any of those shows were animated in HD resolutions, or in a format that allows transferring to HD resolution as the traditionally-animated Disney features were.

Even modern animated series like Spongebob and The Simpsons only went full-HD in their production relatively recently; any season prior to those (a couple pre-HD Simpsons seasons have been released to Blu-Ray) exhibited in HD would just be a studio upscaling job. While that may prove slightly better than a DVD played in an upscaling player, it probably wouldn't usually be considered worth the additional production cost.

^that's right. Even digitally colored shows wouldnt look great in HD.

But there is more to blu-ray than simply HD. alas, even if this rumor is true, the inevitable barebones discs will not be worth the price,

I suppose, with a Standard-def Blu-Ray release, they could fit more episodes onto a single disc without squeezing the bitrate, have more space for bonus features, and feature more modern pop-up menus... but a Blu-Ray release would also cut their potential customers down considering how Blu-Ray players still aren't nearly as common a fixture in people's homes as their DVD predecessors. And if we think the price Disney asks for bare-bones DVD is too high, they'd only ask more for Blu-Ray versions, even if the content itself isn't HD, since it still costs more to produce and license Blu-Ray media.

All in all, I think we're better off just sticking to regular DVD releases for that content which isn't capable of taking advantage of the resolution of Blu-Ray. Until Blu-Ray has become as ubiquitous and cheap as DVD is now, anyway.

TM2-Megatron wrote:A Blu-Ray release wouldn't serve much purpose; I doubt any of those shows were animated in HD resolutions, or in a format that allows transferring to HD resolution as the traditionally-animated Disney features were.

The way the shows were animated or filmed is not what would cause the problems.

The main issue with many 80s TV shows, espescially those which are animated is that they were shot on film, but then edited using video.

There is no reason why shows like DuckTales couldnt be seen in HD, but of course it comes down to Disney spending money. Which undoubtedly will never happen.

ichabod wrote:

TM2-Megatron wrote:A Blu-Ray release wouldn't serve much purpose; I doubt any of those shows were animated in HD resolutions, or in a format that allows transferring to HD resolution as the traditionally-animated Disney features were.

The way the shows were animated or filmed is not what would cause the problems.

The main issue with many 80s TV shows, espescially those which are animated is that they were shot on film, but then edited using video.

There is no reason why shows like DuckTales couldnt be seen in HD, but of course it comes down to Disney spending money. Which undoubtedly will never happen.

I think it is safe to say, most tv shows won't ever end up on Blu-ray. The cost of up-scaling to HD would be more then most studios are willing to pay. All Blu-ray would ever be able to offer these shows is putting them on fewer discs, and you know many Blu-ray fans would have a cow over shows being released on Blu-ray that is not in HD.

I think of it this way. Blu-ray is for newer shows and films and major A-List catalog titles, while DVD is for everything else. For this reason, I doubt DVD will be dying off anytime soon.

^that would be true, but then you have classic shows like Laverne and Shirley and Batman being rerun upscaled to HD broadcast, which would theoretically cost about the same?

ajmrowland wrote:^that would be true, but then you have classic shows like Laverne and Shirley and Batman being rerun upscaled to HD broadcast, which would theoretically cost about the same?

You would be right. Some really old, A-List shows will make the jump to Blu-ray in HD. "The Dick Van Dyke Show" just made the Blu-ray jump. I'm putting my money on "I Love Lucy" ending up on Blu-ray sooner or later as well, but we'll see.

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/releases/Di ... -ray/12538

But as for Disney tv shows, I'm sad to say that outside of newer titles, I can't see it ever happening. It's not like it would not be easier for some of the Walt-era stuff to make the jump, as I don't think it would take much actually, I just don't see Disney Home Entertainment caring enough to do it. The only way those titles will ever see the light of day is on DVD, most likely DVD-on-Demand.

The point is that fans of much of the unreleased Disney shows better pray DVD doesn't die off. If it does, the best anyone could hope for is that these titles end up as a digital streaming option. I seriously doubt Blu-ray will ever happen. It will be fun in five to ten years and looking back to how well this prediction holds up.

ichabod wrote:

TM2-Megatron wrote:A Blu-Ray release wouldn't serve much purpose; I doubt any of those shows were animated in HD resolutions, or in a format that allows transferring to HD resolution as the traditionally-animated Disney features were.

The way the shows were animated or filmed is not what would cause the problems.

The main issue with many 80s TV shows, espescially those which are animated is that they were shot on film, but then edited using video.

Even if there were no video intermediary work, if they used 16mm animation cameras to shoot it then any benefit the show might enjoy on Blu-Ray would be very marginal, or non-existent.

Personally, I haven't been able to find out whether the old Disney afternoon shows were shot with 16 or 35mm cameras, but I've always figured they must've used the cheaper option. These were only kid's TV shows, after all, and nobody would have ever anticipated them being displayed at anything but old-fashioned broadcast resolutions.

The BBFC has been rating lately a lot of DuckTales and Chip n' Dale episodes for the UK including ones that haven't been released in the U.S. yet. In particular, the new episodes are Chip n' Dale episode 53, 56, and 57. Could this mean anything?

A second and third collection of DuckTales is been released in Germany and the UK in November. and a season second of Chip 'N' Dale: Rescue Rangers is been released in Germany and UK in future (no release date). That is based on the listings at Amazon Germany and UK.

The previous DVD releases in Australia and UK had major interlacing issues (on computer or HD TV), so I really hope they don't muck up these releases again.

The CDRR and DuckTales sets came out in November 2012. The first sets were released in 2007, with only 20 episodes, while these new ones had 24 (simply copying the US versions). So, we've skipped seven episodes, and its now left like that. The only difference is the recent sets have different language tracks, no subtitles at all, and a Fastplay mode.

Talespin started coming out in Germany and in the UK this year. Already two sets are out, the 2nd coming to the UK in May. Plus I also found that a 3rd set is coming to Germany at the end of the May. here's proof.
SPIN IT!!

But also i read that there's going to be 4th set planned, which will have what follows from Collection 3 and the final episodes, thereby completing the series. But they could be wrong about that. Still, if this is possible, there may be a chance you guys in the US will get the final episodes too. I'm just hoping we'll get more in the UK.

Also, i did spot some various other shows released, but they were like VHS releases reformatted to DVD, in places like South Africa.