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I couldn't find a dedicated thread for the second season so I'm posting this but I won't complain if the mods roll it into a thread I missed (not that complaining would help
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I'm early into my viewing but I wanted to check a few specific things that may be of interest.
First things first, I wanted to check out one episode on each disc to make sure that each disc loads without incident. To that end, I've just finished watching the first episode on discs one through four. Using my old PS3, each disc loaded quickly and without incident or hesitation.
The menus are almost identical to the menus on the first season. The one thing that caught my eye is an option to use the remastered or the original audio on each episode I viewed. I don't recall that from season one (maybe I wasn't paying attention). Otherwise, everything about the second season may be seen as a direct continuation of the first season...packaging, menus, navigation, presentation...all the same.
I watched one of the videotaped episodes: THE LATENESS OF THE HOUR. It looked excellent but I have to qualify that as "excellent for videotape". Obviously, it's not as detailed as a film transfer and it did have a few electronic video anomalies but it was perfectly tolerable. There are only a few of these episodes so don't worry about it.
The other episodes viewed were: KING NINE WILL NOT RETURN, THE INVADERS and A HUNDRED YARDS OVER THE RIM. I especially enjoyed character actor John Crawford in that last episode...a fitting farewell as Mr. Crawford died very recently (only about two weeks ago, I think).
There is little to be said about the audio/video quality of the filmed episodes that wasn't said in the thread about Season One. They look wonderful and all previous superlatives still apply.
I've only seen the four episodes as of this writing but, so far, this release is batting a thousand. Everything has loaded and played glitch free and A/V quality is top notch.

I'm early into my viewing but I wanted to check a few specific things that may be of interest.
First things first, I wanted to check out one episode on each disc to make sure that each disc loads without incident. To that end, I've just finished watching the first episode on discs one through four. Using my old PS3, each disc loaded quickly and without incident or hesitation.
The menus are almost identical to the menus on the first season. The one thing that caught my eye is an option to use the remastered or the original audio on each episode I viewed. I don't recall that from season one (maybe I wasn't paying attention). Otherwise, everything about the second season may be seen as a direct continuation of the first season...packaging, menus, navigation, presentation...all the same.
I watched one of the videotaped episodes: THE LATENESS OF THE HOUR. It looked excellent but I have to qualify that as "excellent for videotape". Obviously, it's not as detailed as a film transfer and it did have a few electronic video anomalies but it was perfectly tolerable. There are only a few of these episodes so don't worry about it.
The other episodes viewed were: KING NINE WILL NOT RETURN, THE INVADERS and A HUNDRED YARDS OVER THE RIM. I especially enjoyed character actor John Crawford in that last episode...a fitting farewell as Mr. Crawford died very recently (only about two weeks ago, I think).
There is little to be said about the audio/video quality of the filmed episodes that wasn't said in the thread about Season One. They look wonderful and all previous superlatives still apply.
I've only seen the four episodes as of this writing but, so far, this release is batting a thousand. Everything has loaded and played glitch free and A/V quality is top notch.