Blackadder the Third: Entire Historic Third Series (1987) |
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Blackadder the Third: Entire Historic Third Series (1987) |
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| General | Extras | ||
| Category | Comedy |
Main Menu Audio Scene Selection Anim & Audio |
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| Year Of Production | 1987 | ||
| Running Time | 176:16 | ||
| RSDL / Flipper | Dual Layered | Cast & Crew | |
| Start Up | Menu | ||
| Region Coding | 4 | Directed By | Mandie Fletcher |
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Distributor |
 Roadshow Home Entertainment |
Starring |
Rowan Atkinson Tony Robinson Hugh Laurie |
| Case | Soft Brackley-Transp | ||
| RPI | $34.95 | Music | Howard Goodall |
| Video | Audio | ||
| Pan & Scan/Full Frame | Full Frame | English Dolby Digital 2.0 (224Kb/s) | |
| Widescreen Aspect Ratio | None | ||
| 16x9 Enhancement | No | ||
| Video Format | 576i (PAL) | ||
| Original Aspect Ratio | 1.33:1 | Miscellaneous | |
| Jacket Pictures | No | ||
| Subtitles | English for the Hearing Impaired | Smoking | No |
| Annoying Product Placement | No | ||
| Action In or After Credits | No | ||
Once again we laugh at the smugness of Edmund. The know-it-all, now a mere butler, still hurls insults with the best of them. Believing so strongly in his own intellectual gifts, yet failing to realise that his continued reliance upon the terminally stupid Baldrick leads to his continual undoing is what we love about this character. We like the absolutely pathetic qualities found in the Prince Regent and Baldrick. The acting is also of a high standard. The quality of the writing is just as high in this series as in the previous one. The situations that this mob get into are always very silly and funny. The use of words is one of the things that sets the Blackadder series apart from many others and Blackadder 3 should not disappoint.
The picture was sharper than the previous series. Shadow detail and low level noise were also improved resulting in no real problems of note. Whether this is the result of better condition of the source, the transfer or both, the improvement was welcomed.
Colours were a little muted as they have been throughout much of the series, but at least there were no problems with this part of the transfer.
Occasional MPEG artefacts such as pixelization were noticed briefly, but again were less of a problem than with the earlier discs. They were not severe enough a problem to warrant listing them here.
This was a dual-layered disc but I think the layers separate Episodes 3 and 4 as no layer change is evident.
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Dialogue quality was never a problem. Audio sync was also not a problem.
There is almost no music apart from the opening theme.
Being mono there is no surround presence and activity. Ditto for the Subwoofer.
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NOTE: To view non-R4 releases, your equipment needs to be multi-zone compatible and usually also NTSC compatible.
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| Review Equipment | |
| DVD | Toshiba 2109, using Component output |
| Display | Toshiba 117cm widescreen rear projection TV. Calibrated with AVIA Guide To Home Theatre. This display device is 16x9 capable. |
| Audio Decoder | Rotel RSP-985 THX Ultra certified surround pre-amp. |
| Amplification | Parasound HCA-2003 3x300w THX certified power amp, NAD 208THX 2x300w power amp. |
| Speakers | Velodyne HGS-18 1250w 18” servo-driven subwoofer, Celestion A3 front speakers, A2 rear speaker (full range) and A4c center channel speaker. |