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Before the Star Trek SUPERPOSTER", Hugh came up with this Babylon 5 poster. It's now also available thru our DVD Station.
 DVD Station (Simitar DVDs, Star Trek & Babylon 5 Posters)
Over the past year or so, quite a few region 4 DVD'ers have voiced their disappointment with some of the decisions Warner have made regarding DVDs for the Australian market. When Romeo Must Die was thrusted upon as as the FIRST warner Region 4 NTSC DVD, people where quite taken back at this very outter left field decision, but seemed to let it slide at the end of the day. Pretty soon, we saw more and more region 4 NTSC DVDs coming from Warner and people started to wonder what the hell was going on. THEN in a very braisen attempt to stir things up, Warner started stamping "NOT FOR RENTAL" on their DVDs in at attempt introduce a 2 tiered system... RENTAL DVDs and RETAIL DVDs. THEN a 4x3 only version of the second highest grossing film in the
world, Harry Potter was dumped on us, with no sign of the widescreen version released everywhere else in the world AND with absolutely NO explanation as to why this
happened to us Aussie DVDer's!.
Up until now a majority of the region 4 DVD sites and other media avenues have voiced
their disappointment over these "non standard" Region 4 DVD guidelines (if
that's what you could call them) and it seems that while people are hearing it , no one
has really listening, and so it has been business as usual, possibly until the other day..
WELL! DVD Plaza certainly
let fly over all this, and the forums are on fire over Chris's "controversial"
editorial. Some have slammed him for the extreme nature of his comments,
whereas others have applauded him as being someone who is finally had the balls to speak
up about a topic that has miffed many DVD'ers for far too long.
While the editorial could be seen as the rantings of a Region 4 DVDipstick, due to the use
of coloruful language, the points made were very valid AND it's now got people talking about it, which it seems was the intent from the getgo. (nothing stirs the juices in some more than few naughty curse words :)
I for one hope that it helps straighten things out with some of Warner's decisions in their DVD release plans. I especially find it majorly depressing to pick up a DVD, only to find that "Little Red Triangle" in the corner of the cover :( besides, the STUDIOS were the ones to enforce region coding on us in an attempt to control DVD releases on a region by region basis, so what the hell are people with PAL ONLY TVs
suppose to do when their favourite Region 4 Warner DVD comes out in the NTSC format?
(and i have quite a few friends who are still in this boat)
Anyway, if you haven't been reading the DVD Plaza forums, i suggest you drop by, take a read, and leave some
constuctive critisism (and leave the naughtly language to Chris please :)
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September 2002
Love, Honour and Obey
The Fugitive : SE
Showtime
The Great Waldo Pepper
The Big Sleep
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Star Trek "SUPERPOSTER" now available HERE!! | |
After seeing the poster first hand we were ever so keen to expand our little 'ol catalogue
of Home Theatre products, and now the Star Trek "SUPERPOSTER" is the new baby in
our growing family of toys & trinkets.
Made up of 3 posters, this ends up being one mutha sized wall poster, measuring OVER 2
metres in width!!
We are also fortunate to be offering the first five customers of the Star Trek
"SUPERPOSTER" personally signed copies by artist/designer Hugh Fleming.
DVD Station (Simitar DVDs, Star Trek & Babylon 5 Posters)
Some menu shots for the upoming 20th anniversary Edition of ET and Xena Warrior Princess : Season 2
DVD Slicks and Menus
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Kathryn has reviewed Showtime, The Fugitive :SE and, the heavily (and intentionally) adlibbed Love, Honour and Obey
Love, Honour and Obey - DVD review
The Fugitive : Special Edition - DVD review
Showtime - DVD review
Some "3D" cover scans for Boys on the Side Scooby Doo : The Movie & Sopranos Season 3 boxset
DVD Slicks and Menus
After a bit of a tease with the release of only 2 episodes (which where part of the
dreaded Warner NTSC region 4 releases) long running Sci-Fi TV show Babylon 5
is set to make its Seasonal DVD Boxset treatment this November, starting with Season 1.
It looks like quite a bit of effort has gone into the DVD release with new digital
widescreen Transfers and remastered Dolby 5.1 sound. AND the best part is the price.
you're look at under $120 for the 6 disc set containing some 22 episodes...pretty
sweet
| Babylon 5 : Season 1
DVD Boxset |
| Release Date: |
6th November 2002 |
| Picture : |
1.78:1 Anamorphic Widescreen |
| Audio : |
English Dolby
Digital 5.1 |
| Subtitles : |
Unknown |
| Extras : |
- All-new digital widescreen transfers [16x9,
1.77:1]
- Soundtrack remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1
- Introduction and audio commentary on two key
episodes by series creator J. Michael Straczynski
- Behind Babylon 5 dossier of documentares:
The Making of Babylon 5, Back to Babylon 5,
The World of Babylon 5: Take a station tour and explore the humans, aliens, political
situations,
scientific data, tech files, weaponry and hardware of this unique futuristic era.
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Included in a whole swag of press releases today was one for the 23rd October DVD release
of ET : The Extra-Special Edition. We are please to confirm the inclusion
of a DTS audio mix on the main feature! YAY! Seeing as the 20th Anniversary
edition of ET was fully remixed into Dolby Digital 5.1 EX for it's theatrical release, the
same audio mix is being used for DVD. So in the event neither the Dolby or DTS audio mixes
carry the "auto detection flags" be sure to switch your amp into "6.1"
to phone home! :)
The FULL list of extras for the 2 disc set include the following goodies
| ET - The Extra Terrestrial : 2 Disc set |
| Release Date: |
23rd October 2002 |
| Picture : |
1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescreen |
| Audio : |
English Dolby
Digital 5.1 Surround EX, DTS-ES 6.1 Matrix |
| Subtitles : |
Unknown |
| Extras : |
Disc 1
- Intro by Speilberg
- John Williams live at the Shine Auditorium
2002 Premiere (live music track)
Disc 2
- Space Exporation
- Evolution and Creation of ET
- The Music of John WIlliams
- 20th Anniverary Premiere
- The Reunion
- Design, Photographs and Marketing
- Trailers
- DVD Rom with Total Axess
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The latest additions include FarScape - Season 1, Gosford Park, The Time Machine (2002),
and Scorpion King
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While it's unfortunate Region 4 Universal are going the rental route first with The Mummy
Spin-off, The Scorpion King, they have done 1 thing good by region 4. (the
retail release will be just prior to Xmas) Unlike the upcoming USA DVD release, The
region 4 verison of The Scorpion King comes with a DTS5.1 audio track!!
One really had to wonder what's going when not more than a year ago, many Aussie DVD
releases were absent of DTS audio when their USA counterpart wasn't. Now we're
seeing a growing trend of Aussie DVDs getting DTS, when the USA verisons don't, with films
like Dune, 13 Days, Mad Max, Jeepers Creepers, Back to the Future parts 1, 2, & 3, and
now The Scorpion King.
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Be on the Lookout for..... | |
Be on the lookout over the next few months (or so) for the following TV shows and movies
set for DVD release. No Specs are available for these releases, nor their actual
release date, but ALL have been passed by the OFLC (aussie censorship board) and are
specified as being DVD releases!
- C-S-I - Crime Scene Investigation : Season 1
- Tron
- Amadeus - Director's Cut
- Xena - Warrior Princess : Season 2
- Strictly Ballroom, Behind the Red Curtain Trilogy (those 3 Baz Lurhman film + a 4th
bonus DVD)
- Little Shop of Horrors : Special Edition
- Worlds Greatest Gangbangs (well at least for those of you living in Canberra and NT :)
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A DVD to BAND together For | |
Currently screening on Channel 9 is the Speilberg/Hanks TV miniseries of Band of
Brothers. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's nonfiction bestseller, BAND OF
BROTHERS tells the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division,
U.S. Army. Starting with their rigorous training in Georgia in 1942, it recounts the
achievements of the elite rifle company from D-Day to the fall of Nazi Germany and the
surrender of Japan.
Warner Home Video are set to release the 10 part miniseries to DVD on 27th November and it
is set to be a real cracker. Not only will the DVD include an 80 minute documentary "We
Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company", the series itself sports an Anamorphic
Widescreen Transfer taken from a high definition digital master and on the Audio
front we get, not only, a Dolby 5.1 soundtrack BUT in a shock move, a
DTS 5.1 audio mix! (yikes!!!) as well as English, French and Spanish Dolby
Digital 2.0 Surround tracks.
Additional bonus materials that are exclusive to the BAND OF BROTHERS DVD set include a 30
minute feature showcasing "The Making of Band of Brothers," Ron Livingston's
"Video Diaries" featuring the experience of making the miniseries through the
eyes of one actor, a featurette of HBO's premiere screening of the miniseries on the
beaches of Normandy and “Who’s Who: The Men of Easy Company”.
character biographies, scene selections, web-enabled links to the BAND OF BROTHERS
"Living Memorial" and other relevant sites, a still photo gallery, episodic
previews and a series index.
Just a few front shot slicks today. Monsters Inc., The Others, Beauty and the Beast (the new version), and Beaches.
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Kathryn's been feeling a little retro lately and has whipped up some reviews of The Big Sleep, and The Great Waldo Pepper
BTW It's been confirmed by Paramount Australia that Friday the 13th Part VII : The New Blood, DOES get its very own remixed Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack
The Great Waldo Pepper - DVD review
The Big Sleep - DVD review
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