Re: DVD Special Features Poll?

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I found the entire DVD discussion to be quite interesting and a little
reminiscent of the hysterics that happened on the Online Alpha list when
the Year One Space 1999 were released. But the SHADO list has always been
a little more polite than the OA list so the grunts and groans over here
are not as grating as the OA ones! : - )

The one thing that I didn't see in the discussion is the fact that Marc is
in touch with the people putting together the disks and when he did the
poll it gave us fans a rare opportunity to influence (However slight) the
content of a new UFO release!

That, by itself is slightly historic I think and even if you can't afford a
DVD player, or afford to by the disks (I think the A&E disks if released
like the Space 1999 ones will cost $21.25 at deepdoscountdvd.com) it
doesn't cost anything to fill out the survey and influence the content of
these disks!

And I think Marc is right, I don't see UFO ever appearing on US television
again since the Sci Fi channel ran it to dismal ratings (I think the
ratings were bad for UFO and 1999 when they ran them or am I wrong about
that?) back in the mid 1990's.

If you have tapes or dubs that's fine but I like the idea of picking up a
DVD in a store and looking at the extras and thinking, "Hmmm maybe I had
something to do with that!" (Egomaniac that I am!) : - )

Something similar happened with the Year two release of Space 1999. A
group of fans wanted to include the short film Message from Moonbase Alpha
(Only shown at conventions, go here for details
http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/main/epguide/txmfma.html )
in the Year two release. Not everyone on the list cared for the film or
cared about seeing it but it cost them nothing but 2 minutes to send off an
email petition to A&E. This is the same sort of thing, UFO is coming out
both in the US and UK and there's still a little time to do something about
the release.

Maybe in 5 years the DVD's will be worth a lot of money like the Lasers
are/were a few years ago if they go out of print!

Phil wrote:
>I found the entire DVD discussion to be quite interesting and a little
>reminiscent of the hysterics that happened on the Online Alpha list when
>the Year One Space 1999 were released.

I'm constantly on "Yellow Alert" to prevent what happened on the
SPACE:1999 list from happening here. It was really quite amazing --
fans had dreamed of SPACE:1999 coming out on DVD, and their dreams
came true. But what was the reaction? Complaints! Insults! People
attacking each other! I think 99% of the fans were perfectly happy
with those DVDs, but the other 1% was intent on making everyone
miserable with their endless, repetitive complaints.

I'm hoping that the situation will be better here. Like you say,
we're generally more polite here than on the SPACE:1999 list. But
also UFO has supposedly been remastered to a higher standard than
SPACE:1999 was. But there's always the opportunity for something to
get messed up on the DVDs, and it's a certainty that the special
features will be different on the UK and USA versions. Heck, I've
already heard rumors that the French UFO DVDs will have extras which
won't be on either the UK or USA versions!

Anyway, it's certainly going to be "interesting" to see what happens
this year with UFO being released on DVD in at least 3 countries!

Marc

--- In SHADO@y..., Marc Martin <marc@u...> wrote:
Hmmm ... I've only signed onto this group this afternoon,
just after I fired off two e-mails to the A&E shop, one about
UFO on DVD and what special features would be included, and two
on the Blue Angels on VHS only, not DVD. Funny I should find
a voting thing about special features!! LOL

I've already participated in the vote, don't know if it's too
late or not. I selected more than one item to be included as
special features, like 10 items. I noticed 326 votes, but it
seems, from the number of votes per item, people voted for
only one thing. Am I a glutton? Hmmmm, glutton - Willy Wonka
- on-line petition :-)

Hmmm, A&E petition, like the Willy Wonka one, for respectable
special features on the US release?

Dan

>I've already participated in the vote, don't know if it's too
>late or not. I selected more than one item to be included as
>special features, like 10 items. I noticed 326 votes, but it
>seems, from the number of votes per item, people voted for
>only one thing. Am I a glutton? Hmmmm, glutton - Willy Wonka
>- on-line petition :-)

Don't worry, it's not too late to vote -- the poll has only
been going on for a week, and I'm waiting for the appropriate
moment to send the results to someone who's working on the A&E
UFO DVDs. And no, you're not a glutton -- you can vote for as
many special features as you'd like to see on the discs.
The 326 vote figure doesn't represent the total number of people
who voted - it represents the total number of items selected
by everyone. So your vote added 10 to the total!

>Hmmm, A&E petition, like the Willy Wonka one, for respectable
>special features on the US release?

Yes, prior to the poll, I recommended that people
pester A&E about extras on the UFO DVD. Given their past
releases, it seems that they don't like to spend much
effort on the extras. Just put on the episodes and few
publicity photos and they're satisfied. We need to find a
way to get them to change their ways... at least for UFO... :-)

Marc

Hi, Dan! <waving>

goupinside wrote:

> Hmmm ... I've only signed onto this group this afternoon,
> just after I fired off two e-mails to the A&E shop, one about
> UFO on DVD and what special features would be included, and two
> on the Blue Angels on VHS only, not DVD. Funny I should find
> a voting thing about special features!! LOL

Serendipity. {{:-)

> I've already participated in the vote, don't know if it's too
> late or not. I selected more than one item to be included as
> special features, like 10 items. I noticed 326 votes, but it
> seems, from the number of votes per item, people voted for
> only one thing. Am I a glutton? Hmmmm, glutton - Willy Wonka
> - on-line petition :-)

No, I selected several things, too. I think the poll registers each
selection as a seperate vote, though.

Welcome to the list!!

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--- In SHADO@y..., Marc Martin <marc@u...> wrote: <snip>
> Marc

I liked all the ideas for UFO extras, but only selected a few - I
don't think the DVDs should be the "end all, be all" for UFO fans.
Some stuff is best left in book form (such as the recent Fanderson
script book) or CD form (music tracks; I could be wrong, but I don't
think you can play a DVD in your CD player). DVD lends itself to
some really nice features - but in my opinion, the "extras" should
complement the medium rather than overwhelm it.

--- In SHADO@y..., Marc Martin <marc@u...> wrote:
<snip>
> I'm constantly on "Yellow Alert" to prevent what happened on the
> SPACE:1999 list from happening here. It was really quite
amazing --
> fans had dreamed of SPACE:1999 coming out on DVD, and their dreams
> came true. But what was the reaction? Complaints! Insults!
People
> attacking each other! I think 99% of the fans were perfectly
happy
> with those DVDs, but the other 1% was intent on making everyone
> miserable with their endless, repetitive complaints.

Not to start a really OT thread, BUT, if I do recall correctly,
there was "polite" sniping on this list when the DE tapes were
released ... or did we all forget that? :)

Yes, 99% of the 1999 folks thought the DVDs were fine, but when you
get "die hards" who have seen the episodes on various formats thru
the years, it's really unacceptable to have episodes with color
shifts, green tints, missing noses, etc. when the DVD format is by
far one of the top formats around.

I don't think UFO fans would be too pleased if such errors were
introduced into the UFO DVDs - especially given the fact that DVD
releases won't be happening as often as VHS.

> I'm hoping that the situation will be better here. Like you say,
> we're generally more polite here than on the SPACE:1999 list. But
> also UFO has supposedly been remastered to a higher standard than
> SPACE:1999 was. But there's always the opportunity for something
to
> get messed up on the DVDs, and it's a certainty that the special
> features will be different on the UK and USA versions. Heck, I've
> already heard rumors that the French UFO DVDs will have extras
which
> won't be on either the UK or USA versions!

>
>I liked all the ideas for UFO extras, but only selected a few - I
>don't think the DVDs should be the "end all, be all" for UFO fans.
>Some stuff is best left in book form (such as the recent Fanderson
>script book) or CD form (music tracks; I could be wrong, but I don't
>think you can play a DVD in your CD player). DVD lends itself to
>some really nice features - but in my opinion, the "extras" should
>complement the medium rather than overwhelm it.
>
One really good DVD idea I've seen in action recently (apologies of it's old
news to some people) is a subtitle track of production info - locations,
dates of filming, bloopers, continuity errors, cast comments, cast biogs
etc. It works really well. The BBC seem to do this quite a bit on their
'cult' releases.

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