[Neil Jones]

I, like the entire country I'm sure, have been watching Home Improvement since its long awaited debut on Disney+ and it looks a lot smoother... almost as if they've actually uploaded it (or whatever the correct term is) in 50/60fps. Is it just my imagination, or are the streamers actually finally considering frame rate of their deinterlaced content?

I have the DVDs of the first four seasons of Home Improvement (in my opinion it was a show that sort of went off the boil a bit after that, but that's another discussion), and I feel the copies on Disney+ look a little bit washed out compared to those. They appear to be the same copies though, even down to the Buena Vista distribution slide that is also on the DVDs.

Aside from that, there's something a little bit off about them, and I don't know what it is. As that whole show was done on tape (even the actual location stuff, though some of the bigger "outdoor" scenes were done in studio), it should be ripe for presenting as clean as possible. And it isn't. And I don't know why. I don't think this is a filmic effect, but I don't know what it is.

To be honest I was half expecting a botch job on that when it finally turned up on Disney+. It could have been worse.