When was reboot made

In Australia there were four VHS releases with each containing two episodes, comprising the first eight episodes of season 1. However, all the VHS tapes have long gone out of print. The second season was never released, even though Polygram retained the rights to publish the episodes on home video with their deal for the first season. Despite this, in Mainframe struck a deal with A. Vision to release the third season on DVD.

ADV planned to re-release these DVDs are a lower price in , but changed their plans as they decided to cancel several of their titles at the time. Some time afterward, the company lost the publishing rights.

This DVD went out of print in early , but can still be found at many online retailers, however it was improperly mastered as the 25fps source material was treated as 24fps film speed material, meaning pulldown flags were encoded into the mpeg stream which results in the video playing back 4.

Anchor Bay have corrected and re-mastered the fourth season disc but it is only available by contacting them for a replacement. Universal still owns the rights to publish the first and second seasons on home video and will maintain those rights until Universal has not yet, and most likely will never, release the first and second seasons on DVD. ReBoot has been the recipient of several awards. About The Show.

Background The setting is in the inner world of a computer system known by its inhabitants as Mainframe for which Mainframe Entertainment is named. ReBoot Revival was born out of love for ReBoot.

When Toy Story exploded onto movie screens in the holiday season, the Disney folks weren't the only ones holding their breath and keeping an eye on box office numbers.

In a nondescript office building in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, a few expatriate Brits were trying to decide if they should greet the film's success with cheers or reservation.

Toy Story is hard not to like, especially if you're a fan of state-of-the-art computer-generated animation. These men were more than just fans; they were veterans. Despite the video's boxy, stiff-limbed characters - an artifact of the limited computing power of the day - Money for Nothing pushed the vernal art form of CGI computer-generated imagery further into the cultural consciousness than anything before it.

It gave Pearson and Blair, along with fellow animator Phil Mitchell, who joined the team a few years after the Dire Straits video, the impetus to consider doing something far more ambitious.

Soon they were kicking around ideas for making the first television animation series made entirely with computers. Still, in terms of exposure, John Lasseter's film easily stole ReBoot 's thunder - which turns out to be something of a sore spot for the British team. They've nothing bad to say about the film. On the contrary: it was good; it was a success; and what's good for computer animation is good for them too. But talking to any one of the three creators will likely bring out a casual mention of this feat: just one season of ReBoot episodes - 16 shows - means producing almost minutes of CGI.

That movie took years to do, too. We can now do two episodes in under six weeks. But as long as animation is not an Olympic sport, it hardly matters who crosses the finish line first. Quality is what matters. And in this category, ReBoot and Toy Story are in the same league.

While no one would mistake ReBoot 's story lines and dialogs for the work of David Mamet, they're humorous and entertaining - and the result of a propellerhead sensibility that can make the show exasperating to watch for anyone who doesn't happen to think that computers are way cool.

ReBoot is a 3-D roller-coaster ride unlike anything that's been shown on TV before - with this quality and in this quantity. There's plenty of fast-paced action, dizzying camera angles, and other eye candy to keep kids riveted. There's a richness to ReBoot 's images and a variety in the facial articulation of the characters that's just a step ahead. I frequently say, 'How'd they do that?

The fact that ReBoot is made entirely on computers cratefuls of high-end Silicon Graphics workstations is not really what sets the show apart.

Nowadays, most of the traditional-looking animation shows leave the tedious task of inking and coloring to computers. Often, animators draw images digitally, using an electronic tablet and stylus - eliminating paper or acetate cels entirely. So what distinguishes ReBoot? It's the lifelike 3-D effects, obtained with obvious animation talent and gobs of raw processing power. And ReBoot 's type of computer animation yields creative and production advantages that nothing else can match.

The company also has some product spinoffs, including the development of IMAX rides: seater vehicles mounted on hydraulics that move according to visual cues from the ReBoot TV show on the degree wraparound screen. Dot Matrix and her brother Enzo, plus thousands of friendly binomes, live in Mainframe, which is plagued by viruses Megabyte and sister strain Hexadecimal.

Guardian Bob is sent from the Net to protect them, and soon makes it his home. Together, they must prevent Megabyte from taking control of all the systems. As an added complication, games being played by the mystical User invade the system regularly, and must be defeated, or else portions of the city are laid waste This gives us a chance to see every genre of video-game ever conceived, from the point of view of the characters!

When Megabyte finally manages to banish Bob, Enzo takes over as the city's Guardian, but things will never be quite the same Did you know Edit. Trivia Though ABC canceled the series after two seasons, Mainframe produced a third season and eventually some TV movies for Canada which eventually aired on cable in the United States. Without ABC to insist upon stories suitable for young children, the episodes took on darker tones. Goofs It is established early on that simulated time is 10, times faster than real time, as the characters use the unit nanosecond like we use the second.

Yet, in the one area where the characters interact with the Users i. Alternate versions Several episodes were changed for their original U.

ABC replaced this with Bob saying "ouch! When Cartoon Network aired "Mousetrap" in April '99, they cut out the entire party sequence due to the implied alcoholic intake, though a similar scene in "End Prog" was left intact. User reviews 60 Review. Top review. Works on many levels. Reboot is truely unique. Not only was it the first CGI cartoon, it was also one of the first "kids programs" to actualy have proper plots, on going story lines and decent dialogue.

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