OK, am I going out of my mind, or has the quality of Sci Fi's DS feed gone waaaayyyy below par???
I had the show on both yesterday and today. Yesterday's viewing was very brief, but it looked, in the scene between Carolyn Loomis and Daniel in Angelique's room, as if someone had smeared brylcreem all over the camera lens (hmmm... maybe Buzz was visiting the studio that day?) I don't remember this problem on my tape of that episode.
And on today's show, I noticed instantly that the feed looked grainy and washed out, compared to my MPI tape. This was during today's second show, which is one of my favorite episodes in all DS, and I've viewed my own tape of it many times. I found myself wondering whether the source material for the broadcasts is low grade copies of the masters rather than a higher quality thingamujig?
I know NAHSSINGK (bellowed with Magda Rakosi elan) about technical details of today's television broadcasts, but I notice that TV Land always maintains a high quality image when they run old shows, and I don't understand why Sci Fi can't do the same for DS. I guess it may be the only Sixties show they are running now, so perhaps they just don't care anymore. (Come to think of it, on TV Land's Bewitched marathon, one of the Dick Sargent era--ca. 1970 shows ran as a blurry, grainy film copy, where clearly no one had bothered to strike a new print of the episode for whatever reason.)
btw, when they were running that TACKY Stargate promo DURING the start of Act One, and acidic schmutz was belching all over Carolyn and Barnabas, I really felt the programmers were adding insult to injury!
Makes me profoundly grateful I don't rely upon Sci Fi for my DS viewing...
G.