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Official: Babylon 5 coming to Blu-ray in December

HBO have taken them down, that's the problem.

I'm wondering if what I ended up with were not legitimate. I can return them to amazon if I find out that they are not, but I wouldn't even begin to know how to tell.

What you've said makes it sound like there is a likelihood of this for me, which is disappointing.
I really don't know. To be fair, now that I can see your picture, I'd say my Blu-ray probably does look a bit like the image at the top – though I'll double check that scene later to be sure – but if it does it's only when I pause it or if I get close up to the screen, it's not noticeable to me when it's playing and I'm sat on my sofa across the room. So on that basis I'd say the bottom half looks marginally cleaner.

Having come from watching 720p DVDs and iTunes, the Blu-rays are an enormous improvement, and I was and I still am amazed by them. That said, it does look like the grain is better on the HBO version based on this screenshot, but there does seem a slight loss of definition at the same time that would possibly bother me. I guess it comes down to personal preference.

I'm puzzled why these differences exist since they are both the same re-masters. It must be some kind of difference between how HBO compressed the file for streaming and how it was put onto disk, but I'm not technical enough to know.

What's the sound quality like on the Blu-rays compared to HBO?
 
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