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Customer Reviews of Blondie Vol 2

Platinum has done the type of job which could be expected of them...poor.

First, the transfer was made, not with the original films, but with the syndicated television versions of later years. Thus, each movie starts with excerpts from the movie to follow, and then with the King Features Syndicate opening credit sequence.

The picture on these transfers are muted grays. Never do any of the blacks look black, or whites look white.

WORST OF ALL, concerning the video portion....Platinum has elected to place a company logo "bug" in the lower right hand corner...just the type of nonsense that one buys DVD's to avoid!!!!

The sound is equally poor...a steady stream of background noise appears throughout the movie, and the volume must be turned up to hear the dialogue.

All in all, this is a set to avoid, regardless of your feeling toward these movies.

more from my 2 cents
I found the Platinum release of "Blondie - volume 2" to have a good picture and good sound, not perfection but completley watchable and enjoyable a real bargain for $5. This disc features 5 episodes running about 70 minutes each on a single side of one disc. I won't list the episodes since someone already has. These 5 shows are from 1940 to 1942, and have guest stars Glen Ford, William Frawley, & Lloyd Bridges featured in some of the shows. The Platinum set will definitely satisfy any Blondie fan until a bigger better boxed set comes along. The one disconcerting thing about this set is the way when you click on an episode to watch it - it shows 3 to 4 minutes of previews of the film you are about to see before the opening song. I found this confusing and always left me scratching my head and wondering if I'd pushed the wrong button. Also all the episodes are on one side of the disc so if your home sick you can click "play all" and not have to get out of bed to flip the disc over. This is good wholesome family fun and a joy to see again after all these years. I hope they put out more volumes in the future.

5* for the movies but Too much on one DVD: Quality Suffers
Note: Partially similar review of Vol 1.
They should have put 2-3 per DVD instead of five on one. During high motion (Dagwood running out the door late for the bus, or Daisy running to get the newspaper) you'll be sure to notice blocky video. I'm sure the originals didn't have that.

Regardless of the above, the movies are still very enjoyable to watch and I appreciate the fact that they're available on DVD.

Conclusion: Movies get 5 Stars and DVD production/compression gets 2 stars.