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POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 21:32
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Originally posted by fantasticlaughingfairy:
You only have to worry about missing some of the tiny bits at the edges - you get LOADS of crap we don't have!
DIE DVD PEOPLE DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ahem.
Breathe in, breathe out, in, out.
Calm.....
Put Vera down.....
Do NOT use your body as a weapon - whoops.
EXACTLY!! Life is so DAMN unfair!!!!
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So will R1 be likely to work on my laptop?
That'd be OK, I'd only have to get the DVD's then.
Again, stroking my invisible flourescent pink beird.
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Originally posted by fantasticlaughingfairy:
So will R1 be likely to work on my laptop?
That'd be OK, I'd only have to get the DVD's then.
Again, stroking my invisible flourescent pink beird.
It depends :-
1) does your laptop play DVDs?
2) when it plays DVDs does it give you the option of which region to watch them in?
If so, yes you probably would be able to watch them on your laptop ... your laptop might be a multi-region DVD player anyhow (thus speaks Zoot who really knows nothing about these things)!!!
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Quote:For sheer time, it's not that much, but it's good stuff, certainly.
Originally posted by fantasticlaughingfairy:
You only have to worry about missing some of the tiny bits at the edges - you get LOADS of crap we don't have!
Select to view spoiler:
in the screentest for the male lead, Jessica (already casted) reads with Michael, and the film-makers animate an arrow going from Jessica's eyes to what part of Michael she's checking out - it's funny.
The bloopers run, like, 4 minutes.
Don't overthink it Chrisisall
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Sometimes really cheap (and I mean REALLY) don't have anything but playing ability and have no region encoding limitations, but it's a spotty issue. Here in the U.S. Apex made a couple like that, but you have to check...
Being shot wide answers the grain issue, DA is slightly grainier than Buffy- same studio, same film, but different lenses, and then side cropping! Is R2 DA totally equal to Buffy in visual quality, as I expect it should be?
The Grain man Chrisisall
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he ehhehe eeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhheeeee
Just read your spoiler hidden text - very VERy funny!!
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The DVDs I'm bidding on on ebay look like the real US thing - think the guy is selling them cheap cos they're region 1 in a region 2 country ...
Must say I haven't seen any differnece in quality between DA and Buffy ...
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I found region-free players on the net for under $100, that's not an unreasonable price...
On R1 the picture fills the average screen nicely and the faces are all big and bright and such, but they had to zoom in slightly, and this increases grain somewhat, not bad, just noticable to an animorphic fan geek like me.
AFG Chrisisall
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If you really like commentary about making the episodes - how they shot this, the light kept falling over, we had to rewright, it started raining right in the middle, etc.- the commentaries are good. If you just want the actor's stuff, you might consider only getting S1, it's the only one w/Jessica and Michael, and the only one w/screentests. Both have bloopers, but both are very similar, mostly makin' faces after blowin' lines.
And the commentary in Freak Nation about the show's direction doesn't really say much more than I put in that other thread.
Jus' tryin' to save you some coin...
Thrifty Chrisisall
P.S. the thought of DA anamorphic is almost more than I can bear *he says, as jagged shards of lightning dance around his head*
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You must stay calm, CIA, or you’ll have some kind of embolism...
What’s coin when you can have commentaries … it’s like a year of unbridled passion instead of pasta ….
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