The quality is very good and it also contains the two episodes leading up to the movie.
It's great watching the episodes without the incessant commercials. Each one clocks in at barely over 20 minutes.
I *really* hope MTV releases the whole series on DVD. I suppose we can help that decision along by purchasing this one.
Yeah I saw the dvd at K-Mart for $15 but I didn't know if I should get it.
I got it for $19 at Media Play. Sounds like a good bargain.
"...there are evil men in the world, truly evil men. Sometimes we hear of them, but more often they work in absolute darkness." Stephen King, _'Salem's Lot_
Although I sort of wish it had also included Jane's Addition and I Loath A Parade as well, since they are also important to the story.
"...there are evil men in the world, truly evil men. Sometimes we hear of them, but more often they work in absolute darkness." Stephen King, _'Salem's Lot_
Yes, and we'd like to enjoy the DVD in Europe also, but MTV has only released a DVD region 1. (Europe is 2) >:-( Moreover, your DVD is only in English, forgetting French-speakers fans of Quebec, and Spanish-speakers fans from Mexico and Hispanic community of US. :-( Do they know that you can include several languages on one DVD?
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Did you know that over half the DVD players in the UK are modified to read all regions? There's a lot of us that believe that the "Region lock" is a bad idea, pandering only to the greedy US movie companies. :b
And is it legal?
'cos I asked to a salesman, telling me the reason of incompatibility is due to Market exportation problems. DVD producers wants to keep their Market safe from importations from Asia and cheap countries. I don't care of their market problems. Me, I'm French, and I would buy Daria DVDs if only there was French dubbing on it on Region 2 encripting. This is a very bad job done from MTV to make DVDs R1 with only English dubbing.
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The only illegality attached to this is the one about distribution outside the licensed area. In other words, if I were to import a DVD, I could only do it for my own personal use, *not* in order to resell the DVD. There is no specific law covering the lock itself.
Yup. He's right to an extent, but as I said above, the only legal instrument is the one used in the licensing of the distribution. The region code attempts to back this up, but is not in itself a legal instrument.
It is the same as where US VHS tapes were effectively locked away from UK viewers due to the NTSC recording system, but this could be overcome by the use of specific video equipment (obviously this "lock" was not introduced as the region lock was, but it was ruthlessly exploited nonetheless). The DVD does not require the use of a specific analogue colour/frame system as VHS did, so it is far easier to view on existing equipment, so the region lock was introduced to try and even up this problem.
The thing is that while the US insists on not distributing titles simultaneously to Europe, or distributing inferior versions to Europe, such systems as region locks will always be looked on as American protectionism. It gets very silly, especially when you consider that there have been examples of British made DVD titles in America which are unavailable in the UK!
Not to mention that it works both ways. There are those in America that modify to get hold of other regions' output. Being an anime fan myself, I've heard of more than one American with DVD players set to read region 2 to enable the viewing of Japanese import titles.
Go fig! :)
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I should have added (now I think of it) that it is illegal to distribute any video title (DVD or VHS) in the UK without a valid certificate from the BBFC. However, since Japan and Europe share a code with the UK, the region lock cannot be directly used to lock out unclassified titles.
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 03:24:06 GMT, X wrote:
And on the negative side, neither the movie nor the episodes contain the original songs from the broadcast versions, nor are they subtitled, close-captioned, or available in other languages. Very cheap-ass production... which, of course, is everything I expected from MTV. :-(
It's a no-win situation. If we purchase this DVD to show that we support releasing the series, it looks like we are sanctioning the same kind of cheap-ass production that the IIFY DVD got. If we refuse to purchase in protest, it looks like there's no interest in "Daria" on video. We're screwed either way.
Thanks *so* much, MTV.
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In article , Adam Spradlin wrote:
I'm still waiting for the uncut release of The Maxx :/
In article , Invid Fan wrote:
Is that likely to happen?
In article , chika wrote:
Who knows. IF they ever decide to do a dvd release, they'd have to use a dual layer disc anyways so would have room for the entire show as opposed to the edited to fit a 2hr tape version on vhs. Or MTV could open thier library to let others buy the dvd rights to thier shows, or the creator could buy back the rights, etc.
Oh The Maxx...
what build up and all went nowhere... i was disappointed...
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releases.
In article , lupin wrote:
I liked where it went. The comic continued on after that point though, I think.
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Well, I haven't seen any of their other DVD's but I did notice that the later Beavis and Butt-head videotapes actually have music videos along with B & B' s usual critiques. How is it they're able to get bands to allow their videos on B&B tapes, but not let them use their songs in background music on Daria tapes? It DOES suck that there's no alternate-language translations, or closed-captioning, but I'm not returning my incoming copy of IIFY when I receive it.
Mediocre DVD's? Excuse Me?
D. T. Dey