tatsunokofan
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30-07-2010 16:16
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Dirk Daring
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The last time U.S Cartoon Network aired "G-Force' in a regular capacity was mid 1997; they briefly brought it back as a filler show between January - March 2000, after which they canned it again. It hasn't aired on mainstream TV again, to this day. "The Anime Network", which belonged to the defunct ADV, briefly aired "G-Force" on it's defunct linear channel and in some of their VOD lineups, around 2004ish. Unfortunately, by the time I got Anime Network's VOD channel around my parts (Fall '05), "G-Force" had long disappeared from the channel.
As a lot of us should remember, CN sister station Boomerang briefly brought back BotP to U.S airwaves between April-September 2004. Only the first 20 episodes were aired, and later re-run. The show moved to the Anime Network the following month, mostly replacing "G-Force" on their line-ups and airing up until the time ADV began their Gatch releases. Select episodes of ADV Gatchaman (the first 12 I believe) also made it into AN's VOD channels later on.
U.S Cartoon Network has changed greatly over the last 15 years, which is natural, seeing as all cable channels change at one point or another, to compete and remian relevant. Their long-running action block, "Toonami" was canceled back in 2008, and ever since then the channel had been averse to any and all kinds of anime, much more nearly 40-year old shows like Gatchaman. So yeah, CN varies a lot in the different countries it's in, but at least the CN franchise has the distinction of airing all 3 versions of Gatchaman!
And forget about Boomerang too. BotP tanked on the channel, which may be why more episodes weren't aired, and why the show was moved to Anime Network. That really was the last big acquisition for Boomerang, in which the execs prefer to re-run the shows already in Turner's vast (yet tiresome) library. The channel's ad-free so they make little profits, and has seriously stagnated with the same old programming, so no hope there as well.
We only have our DVDs, old recordings and YouTube to turn too people. Forget about CN, we're WAY past their target demo! Try Adult Swim. 
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31-07-2010 03:03
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31-07-2010 04:44
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Dirk Daring
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| quote: | Originally posted by tatsunokofan
Hi all!
| quote: | | BotP tanked on the channel, which may be why more episodes weren't aired |
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The reason why they only aired that small selection of episodes was because those were the only episodes that had been remastered from the 1" reel to reel tapes that Sandy Frank had archived.
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At the time of the Boomerang airing, me and several others also believed that the reason only 20 eps aired was because those were close to the amount available on U.S DVD at the time (believe it was 24 before that last 2-disc boxset, released alongside "The Best of "G-Force" in Fall 2004.......man, they didn't even complete BotP here in the U.S). I'd heard talk of the prints being remastered, and also re-collections from those who saw the show towards the end of it's syndicated run of the episodes being in horrible quality.
What's the deal exactly with BotP's prints? Were the prints poorly preserved or damaged, or was it simply age that wore them down? I think one of the reasons why GoS's prints have held up better is because it was produced on tape, according to a convo I had with Jason. But I find that it's eps look softer and less detailed, kinda VHS-y. The prints for the early pilots (produced on film) definitely look crappy though.
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31-07-2010 08:56
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tatsunokofan
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Hi all!
| quote: | | At the time of the Boomerang airing, me and several others also believed that the reason only 20 eps aired was because those were close to the amount available on U.S DVD at the time |
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That was exactly it. The episodes that had been prepared by Rhino (The first 24 BotP episodes and Invasion of Space Center) were the only epiosdes that were used on Boomerang because they were the only episodes on something other than 1" masters. Neither Boomerang nor Sandy Frank were going to spend any money preparing additional episodes, so those were all they had to air.
| quote: | | What's the deal exactly with BotP's prints? Were the prints poorly preserved or damaged, or was it simply age that wore them down? |
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No, the original film prints actually look very, very good. I have film prints for most of the series, and the vibrancy and clarity can be stunning. The problem with the BotP episodes released onto DVD is that they were remastered from the 1" tape masters that Sandy Frank had produced and archived in the 1980s. This set was done with little care for quality control, hence the fuzzyness of the video as well as all the visible imperfections that came from the well worn syndication prints that were used. Heck, the Zark sequence in the middle of "Siege of the Squids" isn't even the correct one! It was taken from "Raid of the Space Octopus!"
What the series really needed was to be completely remastered directly from film prints, but that cost money that Sandy Frank wasn't going to spend.
| quote: | | I think one of the reasons why GoS's prints have held up better is because it was produced on tape, according to a convo I had with Jason. |
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Yes, G-Force was produced from Beta SP masters. There are no "prints" to speak of for G-Force, only videotape masters.
James
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31-07-2010 14:51
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I so wish I could have been able to watch Japanese satellite channels!!! I've tried to find them again knowing, from the start, that the effort would have been all in vain!!
