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There's quite a vibrant discussion of this release on blu-ray.com but nothing here as of yet. Earlier seasons appear to be upscaled and later three (I think) seasons were shot in HD. Films are not included.

A lot of griping over on the other forum about picture quality. I think fans should be happy a show like SG-1 is even hitting BD. I was surprised when I heard about the release.

Wow. That's cool. The first two seasons on DVD are less than stellar as far as the picture quality goes. It ranges shot by shot from pretty good to pretty bad, with most of it being somewhere in between. Lots of grain, and not all film grain, either. It looks like some kind of digital noise or artifacting that boosts the grainy look. Hopefully that's cleaned up a bit on this release. The later seasons look good on DVD, and I would imagine they'll look really good on Blu Ray.

So I watched the pilot just now, and, as expected, it looks like it was digitally upscaled from the SD. That's fine. It is a MUCH cleaner picture than the DVD's. It's night and day.

However, it looks like the put a little too much DNR on it in an attempt to clean it up. With DNR a little goes a long way. This was overkill. And the contrast level isn't quite as good on the Blu Ray as it is on the DVD.

I'd say that for the pilot and the first regular episode (which I scanned) the Blu Ray is the superior release, but it could have been better. It will be interesting to see how the later seasons look. (By Season 4 the DVD's get much better, so I'm expecting the same from the Blu Rays.) Keep in mind, that's just the pilot and the first regular episode.

OK, I just watched Hathor, and the picture quality was noticeably better than on the pilot and the first regular episode.

Yeah, still too much DNR, but it's not as noticeable, and the black levels are stronger. This looked A LOT better than the DVD. If the rest of the set looks this good or better I'm going to be very happy considering the price of the set.

Almost done with Season 1 and the picture quality is consistently better than the pilot. Still a little too much DNR, but it looks better than the DVD's (which have a ton of digital noise to go along with the film grain).

What about the audio? Lots of site reporting that the 5.1 mix is messed up.

Yeah, I've read that, too - but I don't have a surround set up, so I can't really comment on that. It sounds good on my TV!

I did finish Season 1, and am now through 2 episodes of Season 2. I love this set so far. Yeah, the DNR thing is a bummer, but it still looks significantly better than the old DVD's.

When you add digital noise to heavy film grain it can look pretty bad, and that's what much of the first couple of seasons of SG-1 looked like on DVD. On Blu Ray it's clean, somewhat crisp, and clear.

OK, update - Season 3 looks better than Season 2, which looked better than Season 1.

Some of the shots in Season 3 look full HD, not just well done upscaling. WAY better than the DVD's.

The weakest shots look a little better than the DVD's, but most shots look A LOT better.

So far, I'm very happy with the set.

Thank you for the updates. I bought the set and will watch it after next month's Oscar Challenge.

Glad to do it.

Yeah, the set is totally worth buying. Sure, it's a MINOR disappointment in some respects (due to excessive DNR and that surround sound snafu), but it looks significantly better than the DVD's, and the price is dirt cheap (hell, I paid that much for each individual season of Babylon 5 on DVD when those first came out).

I'm on season 4 now, and there are some shots that just make me go, "WOW!" I'm just so used to the grainy DVD's, and this is much more pleasing to watch.

As a matter of fact, up next is Window Of Opportunity! I can't wait to watch that one tomorrow night!

"Window of Opportunity" is my favorite episode! Yes I am excited about the improved picture quality but I'm also excited that now the box set actually fits inside of my media case. The complete series DVD case was massive though it looked cool.

I just finished Season 5 and started Season 6.

On the DVD's you can't see it, but shot by shot you can see the difference in focus. Some shots are AMAZINGLY clear and sharp, and others clearly have a softer focus and aren't. Again, you can't see the difference on the DVD's because they just don't have the resolution, but on the Blu Rays you can see the differences in how well shot/focused the individual shots were.

Overall, this set lives up to what I expected. A significant improvement over the DVD's, but not as good as the kind of restoration Star Trek TOS and TNG got on Blu (but no one expected that kind of restoration job done with Stargate). Given the price of this set it's a no-brainer. Get it. It may not be perfect (the slight overuse of DNR on some episodes, and the surround sound issue), but for the money it's an amazing set. I spent less than twice as much for 10 seasons of SG-1 than I spent on ONE season of TNG on Blu Ray. Hell, the full series Blu Ray set only costs about 2 1/2 times the amount that each individual season SG-1 set cost on DVD when THOSE sets were originally release! That's a phenomenal deal.

This may be my favorite Blu Ray TV set in my entire collection.