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If you have the DVD but haven’t looked at the interview with the Lexx videomatics
director, you should. It’s hilarious–and pretty interesting. I particularly like his team’s home made sound effects.
[img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] “Splat”. [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]My SciFi channel cable transmission usually looks like s***, so my tapes do too. I remember “The Key” being particularly muddy. It is [i]so[/i] different looking on the DVD. And “Battle” is gorgeous.
I hadn’t actually watched “The Key” again since last year, and it’s interesting to see it now. It is the first time Kai and Prince face off against each other, and then you see the contest escalate in “Battle”. Hell, I even enjoyed seeing “Garden” again though it was my least favorite ep of the season.
elmey
Actually if you’re in the USA or pickup Sci-Fi USA you can tune in to Series 3 right now. And you can see just how terrible the quality is versus the DVDs. A must have for any Lexx fan
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Originally posted by LexxLurker:
Actually if you’re in the USA or pickup Sci-Fi USA you can tune in to Series 3 right now. And you can see just how terrible the quality is versus the DVDs. A must have for any Lexx fan
You guys are gonna make me blush.
Actually, I thought that S3V3 was the worst-looking disc of the bunch. The initial test discs we receive from Andrew at Salter Digital’s authoring facilities on DVD-R are truncated, with just a few minutes of the episodes (you can only fit something like 133 minutes maximum of programming on a DVD-R, and there’s not enough room for screens, supplements and episodes…since we’ve already checked VHS dubs of the masters for image quality, we instead test functions and supplements on the DVD-Rs), so we aren’t able to watch the digital presentation of the episodes until the later test disc stage right before replication. I thought that the bit-rate encoding was a bit low, or dipped down too far, and caused some inadvertent digital artifacting. But it was too late to go back and redo the glass master (Salter would have to re-encode everything, which is time-consuming, we’d have to re-check the functionality on DVD-R to make sure that nothing got messed up in the re-encode, we’d have to get a new glass master created, and we’d have to wait for the new test discs to be replicated…it would have added at least another month to the process, and we simply didn’t have the time to do it), so we had to go with what we had. It’s not horrible by any means, but after talking to Andrew about it (we both usually pay pretty strict attention to the bit-rate transfer on the discs), he made sure to see that S3V4 looked better. That one, my friends, is the best-looking LEXX disc we’ve done. It rocks the casbah.
–Aleck
Can you get a shipment of Season 3 DVDs to DVD BOX OFFICE. Ive got some on order and the are still waiting for stock.
Aleck, I haven’t watched the whole S3V3 disc yet, but I thought it looked great. If V4 looks better then “you da man!”
I take it from one of your other posts that S4V1 won’t be released on November 26th? I was just getting used to that “new Lexx disc on the last Tuesday of every other month” thing.
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Originally posted by DVDBuyer:
Can you get a shipment of Season 3 DVDs to DVD BOX OFFICE. Ive got some on order and the are still waiting for stock.
I’m officially on vacation today through next Tuesday, so I can’t ask around, but I don’t think that Acorn has a direct account with DVD Box Office. I’m fairly sure that they get their product through a secondary distributor, and it’s up to that distributor to place orders and keep their own inventory up-to-speed. I may be wrong, however. I’ll ask around when I’m back in the office.
–Aleck
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Originally posted by jkd112:
I take it from one of your other posts that S4V1 won’t be released on November 26th? I was just getting used to that “new Lexx disc on the last Tuesday of every other month” thing.
Oh, dear lord, no. We’re not anywhere nearly ready to make that kind of date. It’s probably going to be the beginning of next year before S4V1 gets out, but again, we haven’t set any firm release dates. It’s not even on our own internal projected release calendars yet. I’ve only just started batting the ball around for it with Andrew. We are, I can say, going to be trying to get them out at a quicker pace than previously. I mean, hey, we’ve now got 3 people in DVD development instead of 2!!! That increases our productivity by 33.3% !!!
–Aleck
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Originally posted by Aleck:
I mean, hey, we’ve now got 3 people in DVD development instead of 2!!! That increases our productivity by 33.3% !!!
–Aleck
hmmm, my experience is that productivity is inversely proportional to the number of people involved
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Originally posted by FX:
hmmm, my experience is that productivity is inversely proportional to the number of people involved
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Try explaining it to your 3 bosses, 5 managers, and human resources.
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Originally posted by FX:
hmmm, my experience is that productivity is inversely proportional to the number of people involved
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All I know is that instead of having to sit through 5 Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in 2 days, I wound up sitting through only 3, and that’s nothin’ but a good thing on my end. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
Good to see you back in the swing of things, FX…you owe me some vacation stories. [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]
–Aleck
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Originally posted by Aleck:
All I know is that instead of having to sit through 5 Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in 2 days, I wound up sitting through only 3, and that’s nothin’ but a good thing on my end. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
Good to see you back in the swing of things, FX…you owe me some vacation stories. [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]
–Aleck
well now that you explained the decrease in g and s viewing, i see what you mean [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
i myself have more frequently been in flamegrape’s position; supporting multiple layers of management type parasitesregards vacation stories, you’re right, i think i will start with the burlesque club saddie took me to in blackpool; all the waitresses [b]and[/b] the emcee had better hair and makeup than i did, and i felt quite inadequate, given that they were all men…and then saddie and newkate wouldn’t get on the roller coaster with me, and they kept trying to make me eat french fry sandwiches, claimed that it was an old english tradition [img]images/smiles/icon_cool.gif[/img] (fx wishes she hadn’t drunk so much with mr and mrs sadgeezer; it’s going to be hard composing a coherent letter about what all transpired)
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