Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I grew up watching the original Jonny Quest series on TV in the late 80s, so even though I wasn't around for its original run, it was a prominent piece of my childhood. As many were, I was a bit disappointed by a few of the decisions that were made surrounding the earlier DVD release, so I ordered this hoping just for improved video quality and little else. I received this today and quickly spot-checked in a bunch of places, and I'm happy to report that, as far as I can tell, this set fixed all of the major issues from the older DVD release. * It has the commercial bumpers. * It has the "Jonny Quest, brought to you by:" outro before the title card. * Doug Wildey is represented in the credits; I don't have a way to verify the credits are 100% accurate now, but they seem better. I leave the task of stringently verifying this to someone else. * Full progressive-frame image quality, stored on-disk as 1080p (not stored as the 480i 'SD Blu-ray' format a lot of older animation blurays use, because these disks actually have HD content). That also means no interlacing-effect (aka "combing", "mice teeth", or "saw teeth") to be seen! * No random, silent title cards (I'm looking at you, Pursuit of the Po-Ho). And, last but certainly not least: * "Jonny Quest: The Complete Original Series is presented as originally aired. It is intended for the adult collector and may not be suitable for children." Meaning: this set has your ignorant savages, my heathen monkeys, and everyone's Oriental Express! Additionally, I don't see any evidence of this simply being upscaled DVD content; there are none of the tell-tale signs of the video having been run through a sharpening filter or anything like that. It seems to have been scanned from the source material in high-def, which means that if you chose to have your player apply any sharpening, it should work beautifully (seriously, you should try it). There is subtle a film-grain effect, which *could* have been added artificially, but I doubt it; I think it's actually from the source material. In short, the video quality looks great, especially when you consider that we're talking about a cartoon from 55 years ago (1964)! Nitpicky stuff that you might notice, but isn't all that important: * The missing splash sound effect before "ignorant savages" is still, well, missing. Sorry if you wouldn't have noticed that otherwise. * The artwork on the disks themselves is all the same image instead of being unique-per-disk like the DVD set had. Not a big deal, especially considering they only had 3 disks to work with, which makes it hard to come up with an appropriate disk art theme. * The extra features seem to be the same as from the DVD set, if my memory serves me correctly. * In Monster in the Monastery, the "Quiet, boy!" line to Bandit that got strangely inserted in the DVD release (forcing a de-sync between Hadji's animation and spoken lines) is still present. This one is just weird, as I can't imagine why they would add this line when the original broadcast didn't have it. In summary, this set is definitely worth it if you're a fan of the series. The content itself looks great, full stop. Physically, this set is less of a "presentation piece" than the DVDs were: the box, the disks, and the insert are very run-of-the-mill. A little less love went into the physical aspects, but a lot less "tampering" happened to the actual content. I'm more than OK with that trade-off, and I think you will be, too.