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  • #111355
    Pete Part Three
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    I think “gay” is the one with the bumming.

    #111356
    Danodin
    Participant

    Loads of men getting hot and sweaty, not sure watching Fight Club says you’re straight…:P

    btw Tyler Durden is really Benjamin Button, who woulda thought that???

    #111366
    peas_and_corn
    Participant

    >>I think my first DVD was Fight Club. Or Moulin Rouge, I can’t remember.

    >You can’t remember if you’re gay or straight?

    Depends on whether that was a proposition

    #111391
    Fluffy Wok
    Participant

    I don’t understand vinyl. Not been enough of a music buff to “get it” as a format. So don’t own any or have bought any.

    First cassette was I think the abridged audio version of “Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers” as read by the broad vocal talents of Mr. Barrie (I especially used to do his Petersen impression all the time at school). Either that or a Lenny Henry stand up recording.

    First CDs (bought at the same time) was at a second hand music place in Cambridge and from the bargain bin (starting as I mean to go on…) and was Lenny Kravitz Greatest Hits and Crossroads by Mr Jon Bon Jovi (including both Always and Livin on a Prayer)

    First DVD may actually have been South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut which I would watch on a PC until we bought an Asda dvd player in our 2nd year of university. It’s double sided meaning you have the film on one side and you flip it for special features. I get far too many DVDs from 2nd hand/formerly rental dvd places and among the gems found therein have included a version of Starship Troopers where you have to change the sides on the dvd: after they’ve completed training and get their lasered on unit tattoos halfway through the film you get a message saying “Please insert Side 2”.

    First Bluray has been Alice in Wonderland within one of the combo boxes you get with a DVD in the box. As we haven’t got an HD TV yet (damn university!) we haven’t started the whole bluray upgrade.

    And Fight Club is manly, cannon gay: Edward Norton’s character is genuinely jealous of Helena Bonham Carter’s as she gets to fuck the sweaty, marigold-wearing, washboard-abbed Brad Pitt. Moulin Rogue is soft gentle gay with singing and Tuberculosis. I enjoyed both for different reasons which I will not comment on.

    #111392
    Pete Part Three
    Participant

    >It’s double sided meaning you have the film on one side and you flip it for special features.

    Ah, flippers. What a pile of wank they were. Even worse were the ones where the movie would be spread over both sides.

    #111394
    hummingbird
    Participant

    > I don’t understand vinyl. Not been enough of a music buff to “get it” as a format. So don’t own any or have bought any

    It’s not about being a music buff, it’s about spending most of your teenage years with vinyl or cassette being the only option (CD players were prohibitively expensive for a teenager in the ’80s). ^_^

    #111395
    si
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    First cassette single: Vanilla Ice – Satisfaction (1991)
    First 7” single: The Kinks – Come Dancing (early 80s)
    First vinyl album: Kylie Minogue – Kylie (1988)
    First cassette album: Can’t remember. I remember getting Up by Right Said Fred in around 1993, but I must’ve had others by then.
    First CD single: Ace of Base – (can’t remember what – my sister got it for me)
    First CD album: Not too sure. I remember getting a few rock CDs all at the same time – Leppard, that kind of thing.
    First DVD: Red Dwarf I. Again, didn’t have a DVD player. Had to wait til Christmas)
    First Blu-Ray: Back To The Future Trilogy (Tinned Set). Still don’t have a Blu-Ray player, but really wanted the goodies it came with.
    First kiss: A mate of mine called Paul, 1997.
    First hangover: The morning after I kissed Paul.

    #111490
    JamesTC
    Participant

    Images have gone up for the 4 releases and it confirms that they are another re-release without any extras,



    “Just The Show”

    [Edit by Seb: put the images in for you]

    #111491
    Seb Patrick
    Keymaster

    I just… don’t understand who is supposed to be interested in buying these things. The extras-laden releases can already be got for under a tenner without too much searching… who are these going to appeal to?

    #111492
    Seb Patrick
    Keymaster

    Also, if those are the covers… I’m sorry, but that’s little short of pathetic.

    #111493
    Ian Symes
    Keymaster

    The original releases are all on Play for THE SAME PRICE as the new releases.

    #111494
    Danny Stephenson
    Keymaster

    They look like Father Jack’s colour cards.

    “Dougal quick, give me the new Red Dwarf DVD’s..”
    “Which one, Ted?”
    “Gimme Series 2, quick!”…

    #111495
    JamesTC
    Participant

    They wouldn’t be releasing them if the previous releases weren’t big sellers. It is nice to know actually, that Dwarf makes such big business. Chimes well for the new series among other things.

    Also I guess these new releases keep new Dwarf releases on the shelves till the new series (With the next 4 releases coming along soon I assume).

    Still, bit surprised they don’t do either a best of collection or an entire collection with the versions with extras.

    #111496
    Ridley
    Participant

    I like the colours… but if it’s Just The Show why are they a 12 when the VHSes were PG?

    #111497
    hummingbird
    Participant

    > The original releases are all on Play for THE SAME PRICE as the new releases.

    So, you’d effectively be paying the SAME money for LESS content. And how exactly does that make sense?

    Maybe they’re just counting on the completists wanting to own every single version.

    #111498
    JamesTC
    Participant

    >I like the colours… but if it’s Just The Show why are they a 12 when the VHSes were PG?

    I expect that is just a place holder until the actual rating is confirmed. Series III, VI, VII and VIII are the only ones that should be 12, at least according to the BBFC.

    #111500
    Ben Paddon
    Participant

    Well. This is a bit shit.

    I thought the BBC release model was “put out shit DVDs, charge through the nose for them, wait eight years, put out exceptional re-releases with more content, charge same price as the original sets.”

    This is very much in the wrong direction.

    #111501
    Seb Patrick
    Keymaster

    Yeah, exactly. These look like the crappy, no-thought-put-into-them releases we might have expected to get around ten years ago, before the proper ones came along.

    #111502
    Phil
    Participant

    I for one applaud their decision to employ the mentally ill as cover designers.

    #111504
    Pete Part Three
    Participant

    Just remember that someone got paid for coming up with these.

    And would it be too much to ask for a Red Dwarf logo in the proper colours? Y’know; with red ds? It was the one thing I didn’t like about the original covers, whereas it’s just one of many things I don’t like about these.

    These actually make the VHS releases look like masterpieces…even the shockingly bad series V covers.

    #111505
    Danny Stephenson
    Keymaster

    I didn’t mind the Silver Logos on the covers, you still got the proper logo on the spines. Special logos for special editions. Which frankly is what they were first.

    #111506
    p2p_productions
    Participant

    I’m usually charitable with my praise of new artwork… Still, at least the weather’s nice, I suppose.

    #111507
    John Hoare
    Participant

    Anyone up for an old-style G&T DVD review, then?

    My new Series 1 should hopefully arrive next week.

    #111508
    Ben Paddon
    Participant

    Hey, P2P – fancy coming up with some alternate-universe early-days BBC Video DVD release covers for Red Dwarf? Y’know, the sort that those first releases of Blackadder and “The Five Doctors” came in, with the rubbish silver bit taking up most of the cover? Because even though they’d likely use the VHS artwork as the basis for the non-silvery-bandy bit they’d still look less shit than these “new” covers.

    Bloody Hell.

    #111509
    Ian Symes
    Keymaster
    #111510
    p2p_productions
    Participant

    #111511
    Phil
    Participant

    *claps*

    #111512
    Mr-Stabby
    Participant

    Hmm..

    Amazon Price for Series 2 FULL Release – £4.49
    Amazon Price for new ‘Just the Shows’ Series 2 DVD – £4.99

    Well…..

    Most of the full series DVDs are cheaper too….. Though I will say Series 1 is 1p cheaper for the ‘Just the Shows’ version. Are the extras worth 1p??? ARE THEY?

    I have to say, i’m a big fan of RD, but even i have to say just how many times can you re-release the same stuff??? Including the Re-mastered, how many times has this stuff been re-released?

    #111513
    Ben Paddon
    Participant

    Five. No, six.

    #111514
    Danny Stephenson
    Keymaster

    All derelict.

    #111515
    Ben Paddon
    Participant

    Thirty-two.

    #111517
    Seb Patrick
    Keymaster

    I’m sure someone has mocked up an early-BBC-style RD DVD cover before now, you know (based on the Young Ones/NTNOCN etc. covers). I’ll see if I can find it….

    #111520
    Ian Symes
    Keymaster

    You could start by looking at my post in this thread from yesterday afternoon.

    #111521
    Pete Part Three
    Participant

    *holds handbag to chest*

    oooh

    #111519
    p2p_productions
    Participant

    My entry for the cover design comp from a while back…

    #111522
    Pete Part Three
    Participant

    Very, very nice.

    #111523
    p2p_productions
    Participant

    Cheers, Pete. Appreciate it.

    #111524
    Seb Patrick
    Keymaster

    >You could start by looking at my post in this thread from yesterday afternoon.

    Nah.

    p2p, what competition was that? And why didn’t you win it? And why aren’t you working at 2entertain instead of whoever’s crapping out those lazy pastel covers?

    #111525
    p2p_productions
    Participant

    Bless you, Seb. :)

    The comp was actually for that Red Dwarf Network site that appeared/disappeared mysteriously. For my hard work, I did actually get a consolation prize – a DVD, if I recall.

    Speaking of which, if anyone needs any graphic design stuff doing, let me know. I’m reasonably priced and can do paint by numbers and everything. :D

    #111526
    Seb Patrick
    Keymaster

    Was it you who did the really cool in-the-style-of-the-other-series cover for BtE? I keep meaning to print that and replace the real one with it.

    #111527
    p2p_productions
    Participant

    This one..?

    …No, that’s not mine – but if I recall, I did map it onto the Amaray case to show what it’d look like printed. Very nice concept, overall. Personally, I would’ve stayed with the light grey colour scheme of the original photo, just for continuity’s sake with the rest of the set. Also, if placed next to the other cases in sequence, it’ll offset the segmented spine logo slightly, but that’s just nitpicky, I guess.

    Actually, they probably could’ve done something similar with this new budget set – presumably, four/eight new spines is enough space to include a cast photo/panorama or something.

    I remember doing this quick, slightly jokey front cover below ages ago. Took me about ten minutes.

    #111532
    hummingbird
    Participant

    Took me about ten minutes.

    Now you’re just showing off. :P

    #111534
    p2p_productions
    Participant

    Ha! I do recall that particular image not taking very long to put together… honest! Generally, a quick cover at that resolution takes hardly any time at all. The higher res you go, the longer it takes to finish. :)

    #111535
    Seb Patrick
    Keymaster

    Yeah, that’s the one. Nice bit of work all round – and yeah, it mucks up the spines a bit, but it still does a really good job of fitting in style-wise. Wonder who did it originally, then? I’m fairly sure it was on here that I saw it. I’ve still got the high-res, flat one saved on my hard drive somewhere.

    As for yours, Christ, I’d bloody love a wallpaper-sized pic of the London/Tyrell skyline with Dwarf photoshopped into it.

    *cough*

    #111536
    p2p_productions
    Participant

    I’ll see what I can do. :) In the meantime, here’s another one of mine…

    Is this what you’re after, Seb..?

    #111537
    Dave
    Participant

    >Wonder who did it originally, then? I’m fairly sure it was on here that I saw it

    I posted the link from one the many many Doctor Who DVD cover sites, but I can’t remember which one. I’ll have a look when I get home.

    #111538
    Dave
    Participant
    #111555
    JamesTC
    Participant

    Oh not another one,
    http://www.bbcshop.com/science-fiction/red-dwarf-series-1-4-set/invt/reddwarfbundle/

    The whole point was that these releases are separate versions of the Just The Show collections, bungling the new versions together makes no sense at all when the original collections are out there.

    #111556
    Ian Symes
    Keymaster

    Jesus Christ. This is becoming increasingly difficult to turn a blind eye to.

    #111557
    Jonathan Capps
    Keymaster

    Isn’t that just a bundle of all the individual releases rather than a separate box set release?

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