Coming to DVD

Petrie. · **Reply #40 on:** July 19, 2007, 03:26:52 PM

^ Then you know the franchise is in trouble when they have to do that for money.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #41 on:** July 19, 2007, 03:28:06 PM

that's all these big companies care about. don't worry about it. happens to all of them. they're just too money hungry to think of anything else.

Malte279 · **Reply #42 on:** July 19, 2007, 03:32:19 PM

We may not see all episodes on DvD

Several Disney TV series saw only a limited and randomly picked selection of a few episodes ever brought to video respectively DvD. Considering the fact that we didn't know whether or not there would be any DvD at all this still is a "step in the right direction". Thank you Threehorn for sharing that information with us.
I'm especially interested now to know whether or not there will be DvD releases in other countries and in other languages as well.
As for the cover, I suppose it could have been made better, but it could have been made worse as well. I miss Ducky, Petrie, and Spike and I do not agree that babying up the characters is a necessity (they never did in the early sequels).
Nevertheless I didn't find this cover as bad as that of LBT 11 for example. Also we must take into account that the creators of that cover didn't have one story to which the cover was to refer but they had to come up with something more general, so the basic selection of the motive meets that requirement.
Whatever your opinion on the cover, there is no need to get too agitated about it I suppose.

The Great Valley Guardian · **Reply #43 on:** July 19, 2007, 03:33:10 PM

Only four episodes? FOUR!?!? This must be a money making scheme, but it is Universal...so I think they can get away with it!

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #44 on:** July 19, 2007, 03:35:56 PM

I got all the tv eps on DVD! I put all the full quality ones on several disks and encoded them in PAL format. they can now play in just about any dvd player. they have subtitles that I programmed myself and they have the scene selection menu which I also made. I still want these on an original DVD though.

Petrie. · **Reply #45 on:** July 19, 2007, 03:41:11 PM

Disney's not being stupid and releasing four episodes per DVD of Ducktales or any of their older Disney Afternoon TV Series. They're doing about 25 episodes per set. Does this make Disney less money hungry than Universal?

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #46 on:** July 19, 2007, 03:42:37 PM

I dunno. If these dvd's are gonna be $3, then it doesn't really matter but I don't wanna pay $25 for 4 eps! thats insane!!!

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #47 on:** July 19, 2007, 03:43:15 PM

disregard

Petrie. · **Reply #48 on:** July 19, 2007, 03:46:21 PM

Quote from: landbeforetimelover,Jul 19 2007 on 02:42 PM

I dunno. If these dvd's are gonna be $3, then it doesn't really matter but I don't wanna pay $25 for 4 eps! thats insane!!!

I'd expect around $10...not bad but certainly not great considering $25 can get you 25 episodes of stuff from the Disney afternoon, and that stuff was far more popular.

The Great Valley Guardian · **Reply #49 on:** July 19, 2007, 03:55:38 PM

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but certainly not great considering $25 can get you 25 episodes of stuff from the Disney afternoon, and that stuff was far more popular.

You do have a point Petrie, the Disney afternoon shows were very popular back in the day!

DarkHououmon · **Reply #50 on:** July 19, 2007, 04:04:49 PM

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^ You also assume all artists do the same task at the same rate. Last I checked an in-betweener was not necessarily an expert in backgrounds and vice-versa. Too many variables.

I agree. With so many variables, it would be impossible to accurately calculate how long it would take animators and artists to accomplish these kinds of things, wouldn't it?

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As for the cover, I suppose it could have been made better, but it could have been made worse as well.

Agreed.

Ratiasu · **Reply #51 on:** July 19, 2007, 04:22:10 PM

That DVD cover kind of scares me.

DarkHououmon · **Reply #52 on:** July 19, 2007, 04:24:07 PM

It does? Why?

Ratiasu · **Reply #53 on:** July 19, 2007, 04:45:48 PM

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It does? Why?

I think it's because of the fact that, to me, they're all smiling and being exuberant, plus it seems as if the viewer has fallen into a small hole.

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The clouds look weirdly horizontal, as opposed to the vertical viewpoint of the characters, which would mean that the gang is standing on a wall, or else Ruby is floating. The hole actually looks like the inside of a tree, which might mean that the viewer is actually something small looking up through a hole in a log on the ground, but that wouldn't explain the...oh, oh, I should stop thinking about this, shouldn't I?

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I am glad that they're actually releasing the TV episodes on a DVD, but more, in order, with special features and not just those boring games and character profiles they give to us on the movie DVDs, would be much more appreciated.

action9000 · **Reply #54 on:** July 19, 2007, 05:36:24 PM

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but I don't wanna pay $25 for 4 eps!

I'm actually very surprised they're only releasing 4 episodes at a time. Most TV series' release the entire season as a set of DVDs, not 4 or 5 episodes at a time. This is a little odd but we'll see what happens in the future.

Manny Cav · **Reply #55 on:** July 19, 2007, 06:27:58 PM

I wonder what the 4 episodes are... I'm probably not interested, given that I have all of the original US released episodes on recorded VHS.

If they charge $25 for that, nobody with half a brain will buy it (unless they have never seen the episodes and they really want to see them; I might actually do it, if that were the case). I paid, like, around $25 or $30 on eBay for a VHS package. It included the first 4 LBT movies, a live-action Caspar movie, The Indian and The Cupboard, and Jumanji. What a bargain.

Of course, they wouldn't dare do that. I imagine it will probably be $15.

Threehorn · **Reply #56 on:** July 19, 2007, 09:33:45 PM

With most DVDs with cartoons that first brought out they bring them out in parts so it most likely volumne one then they will bring out sometime later a second then thrid and so on.

Also could we stop augring about the cover. it just a DVD cover that about it, for that it doesn't matter how long it takes and at the end they chose that and thats how it is. Nothing can change it now. They displayed and now finalised for Augest realise.

Other then that I look forward to getting this DVD for my personally collection

NewOrder · **Reply #57 on:** July 20, 2007, 08:41:03 AM

This might end up being very expensive. Why don't they just through out a box with all the episodes?

We all knew the series would eventually come out in DVD, but I never thought it would be so soon.

Threehorn · **Reply #58 on:** July 20, 2007, 08:42:57 AM

I ususally get them this way around, I can't be bothered to wait for a year for a DVD box set to come out.

Malte279 · **Reply #59 on:** July 20, 2007, 11:05:53 AM

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We all knew the series would eventually come out in DVD, but I never thought it would be so soon.

Did we know this? Thank you for telling me

We still don't know though whether or not there will be any translations of the series.