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Smallville: The Complete Ninth Season(TV) (2009-2010)
No synopsis for Smallville: The Complete Ninth Season. For more about Smallville: The Complete Ninth Season and the Smallville: The Complete Ninth Season Blu-ray release, see the Smallville: The Complete Ninth Season Blu-ray Review published by Kenneth Brown on August 27, 2010 where this Blu-ray release scored 3.5 out of 5. Starring: Tom Welling, Allison Mack, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, John Glover, Erica Durance » See full cast & crew Smallville: The Complete Ninth Season Blu-ray, Video QualitySmallville: The Complete Ninth Season also accomplishes the impossible: finally giving fans a reliable 1080p/VC-1 transfer. Eyesores are still present -- soft shots litter each episode, the seams of the series' hit-or-miss special effects are terribly apparent at times, and noise reduction has been applied to a handful of scenes -- but the vast majority trace back to the production itself rather than Warner's encoding efforts. Fine detailing is the best the series has seen, boasting wonderfully resolved textures and clean, crisp object definition (for the most part, at least). While many establishing shots bear the brunt of the series' glossy CG, closeups look particularly good and delineation is quite remarkable. Colors are bold and beautiful as well, offering a steady stream of blistering primaries, gorgeous skintones, and rich, inky blacks. Moreover, contrast rarely wavers, the season's shifting palette retains a welcome consistency from episode to episode, and power flashes and lightning blasts are rendered with ease. And the noise and compression artifacts that hindered previous-season releases? The grain-like noise that remains appears to be a product of the original photography, and the artifacting that does crop up from time to time is generally fleeting and relatively minor. All in all, it isn't a perfect transfer, but it is a commendable one, especially compared to the Blu-ray releases of Smallville's sixth, seventh and eighth seasons. Smallville: The Complete Ninth Season Blu-ray, Audio QualityIt's probably wise to space out my lossy-audio rants. One per Warner television release is an exhausting proposition, particularly since the studio is set to unfurl six individual TV seasons over the next three weeks (familiar favorites like Fringe and Supernatural, and new series like Human Target among them), all with standard Dolby Digital 5.1 surround tracks. The Blu-ray edition of Smallville: The Complete Ninth Season leads the lossy invasion of course, swooping into stores near you with an above average 640kbps Dolby Digital 5.1 mix that -- surprise! -- doesn't pack the sternum-cracking punch a lossless DTS-HD Master Audio track probably would have. For the most part, dialogue is exceedingly clean and intelligible (even though voices are occasionally overwhelmed by Kryptonian land wars and Earth-bound, superpowered clashes) and effects are given ample room to breathe (especially compared to its DVD counterpart). Dynamics are a bit pinched but entirely adequate, LFE support is reliable and satisfying, and rear speaker activity does a decent job of drawing the listener into the serene wheat fields, bustling metropolis, and chaotic futurescapes the ninth season discharges from its sonic chamber. Directionality is problematic -- the mix favors intensity over precision -- but pans are smooth and the soundfield, though quite front-heavy at times, is fairly involving. All in all, the experience could have been better, but it could have also been a lot worse. Smallville: Other Seasons
Smallville: The Complete Ninth Season Blu-ray, News and Updates• This Week on Blu-ray - September 7-13 - September 7, 2010 As soon as I received my Blu-ray copy of The Office: Season Six, I popped in disc one so that I could watch "Niagra" (aka "the wedding episode"). Even though I had seen it many times before, the episode is so encompassing of what makes The Office so great, that ...
• Smallville Season 9 Announced on Blu-ray - June 17, 2010 Warner Home Video has announced another TV season set for Blu-ray release in September, to be added to the three announced yesterday. Smallville: The Complete Ninth Season will hit store shelves on September 7. As previously reported, the release of earlier seasons ...
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