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Airwolf finally sees light of day on blu-ray for the region 1 release and being an avid fan of the series, I had to have it. I also had the luck of purchasing the UK R2 release when it went up on sale for discounted price, not knowing if R1 would ever be released; I went ahead and got R2 first. Now if you're reading this you may already know about the series so I will keep this brief and use this opportunity to describe differences between the R1 and R2 release of the blu-ray sets. As far as visual and audio quality goes, there is no discernible difference between the two, considering this series is over 30 years old and not nearly as popular as say Miami Vice from that era, this release received a good treatment. Don't be fooled, this set is a vast improvement over the earlier DVD releases so if you had to decide between the two: this set would be the ideal choice. The fuzziness of the DVD is gone and the picture appears much sharper, and colors more vibrant. The audio could have used some fine tuning and upgrade to surround (come on it's Airwolf, it would have sounded amazing), alas that was not to be. Both releases look and sound the same. Even season 4 looks much better than its' earlier DVD release. The footage shot on 16mm transferred well to blu-ray considering the age of the series, although the constant switch from that to standard video quality makes for a jarring experience at times.
The difference in this set, at least far as I have explored up to this point, is that it corrects the issues that plagued the UK release. For one, episode Bite of the Jackal is fully intact, no scenes have been cut for this release. Secondly the episode Once a Hero does appear to be interlaced (if that's the correct term for the visual issue) as it did on UK release. However, in episode Proof Through the Night there is a slight audio stutter/ issue in the scene where the duo is driving to the lair of Airwolf, this issue is present on this set as well: probably a problem with original source. Other than that everything seems to be in order, the song Money for Nothing is present in the last episode of the series in both sets. I have not yet checked each episode, but if there is a problem I will come back to edit it in here. As far as German release goes, the only upside to that set is that it has subtitles (aside from music less secondary track) which is lacking from UK and NA release. From what I gathered of German set, that release does not contain any of the teasers for episodes but both R1 and R2 sets do.
The packaging for this series comes off cheap but in contrast to Shout-Factory's recent releases, at least I was able to remove discs with ease. The menus are static as is usual for Airwolf's release in NA, I never understood why they never bothered making menus a little neater and animated as R2 releases. Lastly, there are no bonuses in this set or the UK one, and this is where Shout is amazing, they always provide some bonus features and they did for Airwolf, but only the movie version of the pilot that they released. With all that in mind, I would say that this set (R1) is the definitive release of Airwolf on blu-ray if you don't care for subtitles.
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Airwolf - The Complete Series
A New Kind of Weapon. A New Kind of Hero. From the Executive Producer of Magnum P.I.
Jan-Michael Vincent stars as Stringfellow Hawke, a reclusive renegade pilot who's assigned to top-secret missions for the CIA by the mysterious Archangel (Alex Cord). Hawke's weapon of choice is the high-tech battle helicopter of the future, Airwolf. Loaded with cutting-edge surveillance equipment and unbelievable firepower, Airwolf takes Hawke and his friend Dominic (Ernest Borgnine) around the globe in search of dangerous international spies and criminals.
Starring: Jan-Michael Vincent, Ernest Borgnine, Alex Cord, Jean Bruce Scott
Co-Starring: Barry Van Dyke, Geraint Wyn Davies, Michele Scarabelli, Anthony Sherwood
Director: Virgil Vogel, Sutton Roley, Alan Levi
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
great show, bad package
Was looking forward to watching the show from start to finish, but this package I received was incomplete. Missing the second part of the first season and the first part of the second season, but with two copies of the end of the second season. The disks are packed back to back, two disks per cardboard envelope, so in order to avoid scratches plan to put them in different cases. No special features, just the show.
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- Reviewed in Canada on July 23, 2024Verified Purchase
Was looking forward to watching the show from start to finish, but this package I received was incomplete. Missing the second part of the first season and the first part of the second season, but with two copies of the end of the second season.
The disks are packed back to back, two disks per cardboard envelope, so in order to avoid scratches plan to put them in different cases. No special features, just the show.
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- Reviewed in Canada on March 30, 2017Verified Purchase
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Jorge Ramn Herran AguirreReviewed in Mexico on August 5, 2020
Excelente
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Airwolf
Verified Purchase - MoonjumperReviewed in the United States on May 2, 2021
Great set; Awesome series (Even infamous season 4 is...actually somewhat underrated
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Carlos RoblesReviewed in Spain on October 17, 2021
No es edicin italiana
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