Firefly DVD Special Features...

POSTED BY: Ani
UPDATED: Monday, June 30, 2008 08:37
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TALIE

Monday, June 2, 2008 5:35 PM

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LUNATIKAT

Monday, June 2, 2008 8:36 PM

God, yes! Also, in the original commentary by Joss and Nathan, Joss says there is a reason the first scene shot was the first scene shot, says he'll tell us when they get to that part and then NEVER DOES! Aaargh! So, put that in. And want to see the Rebecca Gayheart shot scenes, everything everyone else has said, add phonetic and translated Chinese to the subtitles, at least one commentary for each episode, deleted scenes for each episode.

lunatikat, now with more secret ingredients!

LUNATIKAT

Monday, June 2, 2008 8:47 PM

Prone to? Ani, I can promise you that I will buy probably five sets and a blu ray player. And I'm not alone!

lunatikat, from beyond belief.

WEDGEPLISSKEN

Monday, June 2, 2008 11:39 PM

Missed the original run of Firefly and Serenity, Caught Serenity on HDTV, bought the Collector's Edition and TV Series. I can't help watching it every frikken time it's on cable either! Joss' original version of the theme is better than what's used in the series-the dudes impressive! Casting is perfect! This is an awesome series/ movie!

Start planning now for a special DVD 10 year anniversary-interviews with all main characters and special guests. For 2012 release.

Only The Dead Know An End To War

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Tuesday, June 3, 2008 4:27 AM

Would be nice to have corrected subtitles (or closed captioning). There are many errors in both series and movie. If you areinterested, I'm certain we could help with a list of known errors, gibberish, miossing caption, we could make that a seperate thread.

Examples:
in Serenity Pilot, Wash's "Cry Baby Cry" is not translated.

In Safe, the burning at the stake scene, some gibberish or indecipherable instead of what Simon and Mal say about Simon making friends.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Friday, June 6, 2008 5:28 AM

The opening titles sequence. We know where most of the shots came from in the episodes, except the horses stampeding under Serenity overhead. Is there a whole scene for that? which ep was it shot for?

FIREFLYPASSENGER

Friday, June 6, 2008 7:06 AM

The gibberish is Mal saying, "Well Doc your talent for alienating folks is amazing." Something like that.

ASARIAN

Sunday, June 8, 2008 6:14 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:

Would be nice to have corrected subtitles (or closed captioning). There are many errors in both series and movie.

Yes. Like how Inara is allegedly from ZENON, instead of Sihnon. Or how they have Zoe say "Shining!" in The Train Job. Now, they tell you never to laugh at subtitles, but it is on occassion hilarious. :)

@FIREFLYPASSENGER:

To be correct,

MAL: Gotta say, Doctor, your talent for alienatin' folks is near miraculous.
SIMON: Yes, I'm very proud.

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"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

ASARIAN

Sunday, June 8, 2008 6:51 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by jossisagod:

Thanks for clearing that up, I've been wondering what makes them different, since hearing about Blu-ray. from all of the reviews I've read, it would seem that the reviewers can't tell the difference in quality. Which leads me to ask WHY CAN'T Fox re-release Firefly on DVD, with added bonuses???

Oh, there's a difference alright. :)

For one, the resolution, of course. At 1080p (vertical pixels, progressive = non-interlaced), it offers more than twice the vertical height of an NTSC DVD disk (486 pixels), and almost 3x the horizontal amount (1920 vs. 648). Wee!

DVD is encoded using MPEG2. While MPGEG2 is still supported on Bluray ("Species", for instance, is MPEG2), these days you primarily see two codecs being used: AVC (MPEG-4, Part 10)/H.264 and SMPTE VC-1. H.264 is vastly superior to MPEG2. That is to say, even though you can achieve a good picture quality in MPEG2, you need a much higer bitrate to get the same results as you would with H.264. The only possible drawback to H.264 is that, when decoding, it's slightly more sensitive to noise; and it's somewhat CPU-intensive. VC-1 is comparable to H.264 in quality, and even less computational.

So, if reviewers can't tell the difference in quality between DVD and Bluray, then either their Bluray disk contained very low-res source material, or they're simply moonbrained. :) My money is on the latter!

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"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

STREAKY

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:24 AM

Obviously to have the episodes viewable in intended order. That is to say if they're gonna be in the "F*x destroyed the show before it even had a chance to get going" order there needs to be a feature where you can watch them in the intended order without having to look it up on wikipedia to get it right. I haven't memorised the order, sue me.

That gag mentioned above with the coffin scene sounds hilarious, that really needs to be in there.

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