A&E to Release UFO in July 2002!

Hi all,

Here's some news from Fanderson's News Page:

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Overseas, A&E Video have tentatively scheduled additional Gerry
Anderson series for Region 1 DVD release over the next two years. The
company's second pair of box sets of Space:1999 Year One DVDs
(episodes 13 to 24) will be available from July 31st, and
Thunderbirds Volumes 3 and 4 will be released in November. Box sets
of Space:1999 Year Two episodes are currently planned for release in
January (episodes 1 to 12) and June (episodes 13 to 24) 2002 and
there are also early plans for a Region 1 DVD release of UFO episodes
starting in July next year. Looking ahead to 2003, A&E have
tentatively scheduled DVD releases of episodes of Supercar and
Fireball XL5 in the first quarter.
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Marc,

in your opinion which would be the better release, region 1 or region 2 DVD.

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Chris writes:
>in your opinion which would be the better release, region 1 or region 2 DVD.
> From the email lately there appears to be at least three factors. The
>mob that is
>actually doing the work, that other frequency shift thing and PAL versus
>NTSC.

I think the Region 2 (Carlton) will likely be the better release, based on
what we've already seen with the Region 1 & 2 releases of SPACE:1999 and
THUNDERBIRDS. In both cases, the Region 2's have had (slightly)
better picture quality, and much better extras and menus. Of course,
the Region 2's are going at a slightly faster speed than the original
35mm film, which I only find to be *occasionally* annoying on the
new Carlton SPACE:1999 DVDs. Also, my APEX DVD player doesn't really
do the best job of converting PAL to NTSC, so for people who have
that player, the A&E Region 1 DVD's would look better on their
NTSC (American) TV sets. I suspect that the newer PAL/NTSC converter
DVD players may be better in this regard, but I don't have any
information on that.

But I will buying both... perhaps the French ones too, since it looks
like they will be released first... and besides, I've never heard
UFO dubbed in French before! :-)

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Marc Martin, [hidden email]

>But I will buying both... perhaps the French ones too, since it looks
>like they will be released first... and besides, I've never heard
>UFO dubbed in French before! :-)


Ah! You should have said something, I've got UFO in french on tape from an
old tape trade with someone from Quebec! It was off their last
broadcast. Not the same as UFO from France I suspect.


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>Marc Martin, [hidden email]
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-----Original Message-----
From: Hemmings, R.K. [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 7:25 AM
To: '[hidden email]'
Subject: RE: [SHADO] A&E to Release UFO in July 2002!


In point of fact, some people process visual images faster than others
(Chuck Yeager couldn't watch movies because he could see each frame
individually.)
My husband can see the voltage flicker in florescent bulbs going bad a good
two weeks before anyone else around can (when the flicker slows down enough
so I can see it) He can also see scanning fluctuations in crt's. (He can't
use my monitor - it's older and flickers more than the one he uses - I can't
see it unless my monitor is having a bad day - then I hear it more than see
it.)
It's not an issue of persistance of vision, it's seeing the changes faster
than normal.
Also, people who see faster are frequently bothered by digital video
artifacts since the digital edge crawl has a larger change factor per frame
than analog sources do and so attracts their attention away from the action
of the film - like watching the show when there's a strobe going off in one
corner of the screen.

Deborah R

If your TV *is* dual/multi standard, you'll likely get
a better picture from PAL DVDs than NTSC ones (625 rather
than 525 horiz. lines) although some people swear that
they can see a flicker on PAL discs as this works at 50
frames/sec rather than NTSC's 60.
I believe that last bit is simply wrong (persistance of
vision etc, but it's possible that US TV's use a phospher
in the actual CRT that has a shorter persistance than PAL
TV's.

HTH
--
Rob
"Whatever you do, don't push that bu




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Just curious as to why A&E would alter the editions at all from the UK/Region
2 counterparts? Why not leave them as they were, and simply release
identical materials? Does anyone have more information?

Ken

>Just curious as to why A&E would alter the editions at all from the UK/Region
>2 counterparts? Why not leave them as they were, and simply release
>identical materials? Does anyone have more information?

Well for some reason the folks who make the Carlton discs & the folks
who make the A&E discs are not sharing their extras, menus, etc with
each other. To me, this seems incredibly dumb, but all you have to
do is join the ITC_DVD mailing list to discover that these 2 groups
of people seem to want to have nothing to do with each other --
they seem more interested in their egos than doing something
that might produce a better product for both the USA and the UK.
So as a result, the fans suffer... :-(

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Marc Martin, [hidden email]

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Rob wrote:
>
> .. It can cost well over 100 UK pounds to get all english
> language versions of *one* film! I'll be buying both UK and
> US versions of UFO as well as any boxed sets when available..

Why, Rob? (just curious) - is it so that you don't miss out on
all possible extras, or is it more of a 'collector's mentality'
kind of thing? A need to have a complete collection of all
the official releases?

James

Gee, Marc
Is it standard practice for compeating companies to share info especially
when they are selling the same product. Has Boeing ever shared with another
aircraft company they were compeating with?
But your right its the poor fan who is going to lose out not the
companies. They will find some way to make a profit.

James K.

>
> Is it standard practice for compeating companies to share info especially
>when they are selling the same product.

No, but *supposedly* they are not competing -- Carlton is selling to
the UK, and A&E is selling to the USA. However, they do *behave*
like they're competing...

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Marc Martin, [hidden email]

[hidden email] wrote:
> Gee, Marc
> Is it standard practice for compeating companies to share
> info especially when they are selling the same product. Has
> Boeing ever shared with another aircraft company they were
> compeating with?



Funnily enough competing companies do share information on
occasion - I know that the investment banks in London held an
IT conference so that they could share ideas a few years ago.
The idea was that by sharing these ideas, everybody could help
to bring down their IT costs - so everyone would benefit.
Obviously no-one is going to share business strategies or
information that they think is going to give them an edge over
the competition, but in the case of the two DVD releases,
especially since they are aimed at different markets, they
could only have helped each other out really.

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Hi all,

Have you noticed a lack of messages in the last day? It would
appear that either the train fire in Baltimore, or the Chinese
"worm" virus has caused some widespread problems with
the Internet. For example, I am unable to send e-mail to
any Yahoo Group, however, I am able to post this message
by going to the website:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SHADO

So, just in case you were wondering, no... it's not the
Aliens at fault here.... (or is it?)

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Marc Martin, [hidden email]

strange things on yahoo
as you already know Marc, from about 5 months ago I can read and post
messages on SHADO-yahoo absolutely only by WEB...never more receive
by e-mail...occasionally also I can't post by web because the my
mail "are bounced"...

--
Angelo Finamore
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--- In SHADO@y..., "Marc Martin" <marc@u...> wrote:

--- Marc wrote:
>
> Have you noticed a lack of messages in the last day? It would
> appear that either the train fire in Baltimore, or the Chinese
> "worm" virus has caused some widespread problems with
> the Internet. For example, I am unable to send e-mail to
> any Yahoo Group, however, I am able to post this message
> by going to the website:
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SHADO

Hi Marc,

yeah, it's rather quiet here. But I posted a question to a few
AVENGERS groups at yahoo! and there is hardly any response in the
other groups too. Same goes to the ITC groups. They all seem to be
deserted (except the AVENGERS group at A&E, they flooded me with e-
mails, but that's not at yahoo!)

Maybe they are all on holiday?


> So, just in case you were wondering, no... it's not the
> Aliens at fault here.... (or is it?)

Are you sure, EARRRTHMAANNNN? :-)

CU Christian

Hi all,
There is definately something wrong at Yahoo. I wasn't getting any
messages from the group and decided to check the group website by entering
the search Shado groups which was how I found the group in the first place.
But this time I was told no were no matches to my search. So is not right.

Marc, it's time to check it out.

"G*?D&*M dirty Aliens" in a Chuck Heston voice.

James K.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Merkel" <[hidden email]>

> >But I will buying both... perhaps the French ones too, since it looks
> >like they will be released first... and besides, I've never heard
> >UFO dubbed in French before! :-)
>
>
> Ah! You should have said something, I've got UFO in french on tape from an
> old tape trade with someone from Quebec! It was off their last
> broadcast. Not the same as UFO from France I suspect.

I suspect so too!
Since the first dubbing was made over here, and knowing how La douce France
feels about anything not translated and dubbed there, it must be quite
different!
I wonder how they'll sound like, though...
I think they did quite a good job at the time!
If Phil can't <cough> some eps for you, Marc, let me know: I may be able to
do something!

--Anny :-)