Thanks Aleck!

About that "Play-All" feature, will that be included too this time around? =) Thanks!

quote:Originally posted by LexxLurker:
About that "Play-All" feature, will that be included too this time around? =) Thanks!

Aww, man, you're makin' me look bad!

I'll talk to Andrew about it. He does all the authoring, and I don't think it should be a problem, but I'll see what he says. Thanks for reminding me!!!!!

--Aleck

quote:Originally posted by Aleck:
At the risk of being labeled a corporate shill, here's an update on what's going on with the S4 video release of LEXX.

First, the bad news. For those of you who've not made the leap into the digital age, now would be a good time to get a DVD player, because S4 will not be coming out on VHS. They're not selling, so we're not making them anymore. The discs, however, continue to do well, so...

--Aleck

LOL, Aleck!! It's precisely because LEXX was coming out on DVD that I finally bought a player.

Yay!!! Thanks for the great news! I, too, got my DVD player primarily for Lexx, and it looks like a lot of video and music chains are going to stop carrying VHS tapes soon anyway.

Thanks, Aleck! That's terrific news!!! I can't wait!

*stokes the fire under her old DVD player*

*counts months on fingers*

November 2003: tripps starts his long-awaited Lexx DVD marathon. 61 eps in a row. 51.8 hours of goodness. Oh-yeah.

cool

But I just read in another thread that series 4 wouldnt come to DVD in UK!

But IF its coming! In how many years will it be?

quote:Originally posted by :
But I just read in another thread that series 4 wouldnt come to DVD in UK!

It's not. This is the US release. I should've been more clear on that.

--Aleck

Is there any possibility of a complete box-set of all the seasons coming out? That'd be kool, and possibly less expensive than buying each DvD that comes out, especially with only a few episodes per Dvd. ???

quote:Originally posted by GivingYouTheFinger:
Is there any possibility of a complete box-set of all the seasons coming out? That'd be kool, and possibly less expensive than buying each DvD that comes out, especially with only a few episodes per Dvd. ???

A complete box of *all* the seasons? Oh dear lord, I hope not. That'd be, what, 15 discs? Yikes. From what I can gather (though I'm still not convinced it's a good idea), we're going to be releasing box sets of each season *after* the individual DVDs are released. The S2 box is already out, and they're discussing putting a S3 box on the market. I personally don't like it for the simple facts that (a) it's kind of unfair to fans that have already bought each individual disc as they come out, (b) it doesn't give you anything more than the individual discs give you (we're not remastering them for the boxes, there are no new supplements, etc), and (c) it keeps making people ask why we don't put all of the episodes of a season out at one time (it would just take us too danged long to get the entire run together, and keep the gap between releases wider). I can understand the point from a marketing perspective (it makes a good gift item for someone, it's a big, chunky product that is hard to miss in a box set section of your local video retailer, etc.), but it doesn't float my own personal boat, so to speak.

--Aleck

This sucks!
That will meen that I will NEVER have the chanse to se Series 4! I have bin waiting years for it!

And now the long wait til Janurary 28th. Uhhg. I take it S4 will have 4 episodes per DVD?

quote:Originally posted by Evil_Lister:
And now the long wait til Janurary 28th. Uhhg. I take it S4 will have 4 episodes per DVD?

4 episodes per, 6 DVDs in total. Yeah, it's a wait, but it's a time-intensive process, and I'm just one man.

--Aleck

quote:Originally posted by Aleck:

4 episodes per, 6 DVDs in total. Yeah, it's a wait, but it's a time-intensive process, and I'm just one man.

--Aleck

Hey, take ALL the time you need aleck!

Remember the saying "Anything worth having is worth waiting for."

Yeah, it's a wait, but it's a time-intensive process, and I'm just one man.

You think if we dressed you in sheepskin we could convince an egghead to clone you?

quote:Originally posted by Cat:
You think if we dressed you in sheepskin we could convince an egghead to clone you?

Only if it's the vintage Batman villain Egghead, as played by Vincent Price.

...Bumping this up, because I don't want to have to keep repeating myself...

--Aleck

The REAL question is:

Can the world handle more than one Aleck??

I like the idea of box sets!! it makes it easy i still have to get all the dvds.. thats the main reason i just got a dvd player in my computer LEXX BABY!! YEAH!!!

Midori

quote:Originally posted by Midori:
I like the idea of box sets!! it makes it easy i still have to get all the dvds.. thats the main reason i just got a dvd player in my computer LEXX BABY!! YEAH!!!

Oh, I love the idea of box sets in theory. I wish we'd started the whole thing out with a box set of S2, though. Instead, the strategy was to release S2 in a fairly continual stream of DVDs, so that there wouldn't be such a wait between S2 and S3. The kind of wait involved (and this is just an assumption as to how the thinking on the sales/marketing level went) would cause the series to lose momentum in the marketplace. So, we went with a periodic release of individual discs instead of all-at-a-time. Since this pattern has already been established, it would have thrown things off to change the strategy mid-stream, so we're going with individual releases for S4. The response to the S2 set has been favorable, so there will probably be S3 and S4 sets as well, but they're coming out individually first.

--Aleck

Weird i registered and it says it doesnt exist

I bought a DVD player just last month cause i got tired of watching Lexx and other SCIFI shows off my crappy VCR with my recorded VHS tapes of the shows and the editting of some of the shows on US TV ****ed me off

I spent $184 for the entire Lexx DVD's released so far, i got them from Ebay after i saw what they wanted for 1 episode at the local stores $30 each

So if the release date stands it be at the end of 2003 that the season 4 DVD's will all be out??
but untill then i can watch season 4 on my VCR

ok all better now, im registered

quote:Originally posted by Lemmi:
I spent $184 for the entire Lexx DVD's released so far, i got them from Ebay after i saw what they wanted for 1 episode at the local stores $30 each

Go to deepdiscountdvd.com. Their prices are about as low as a place can get, and they have free shipping. Since the S4 discs will have the same MSRP as the S3 discs, they should -- "Bob" willing -- have them for $14.95 each.

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Thereabouts, yeah. Still nothing set in stone, but that's what we're aiming for.

--Aleck

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Thanks they have some good deals there, and i love the free shipping

quote:Originally posted by Aleck:

Oh, I love the idea of box sets in theory. I wish we'd started the whole thing out with a box set of S2, though. Instead, the strategy was to release S2 in a fairly continual stream of DVDs, so that there wouldn't be such a wait between S2 and S3. The kind of wait involved (and this is just an assumption as to how the thinking on the sales/marketing level went) would cause the series to lose momentum in the marketplace. So, we went with a periodic release of individual discs instead of all-at-a-time. Since this pattern has already been established, it would have thrown things off to change the strategy mid-stream, so we're going with individual releases for S4. The response to the S2 set has been favorable, so there will probably be S3 and S4 sets as well, but they're coming out individually first.

--Aleck

Thats good as long as there are box sets im happy
And that is crazy the $30 a dvd thing.. i saw that today at Suncoast!! and i rememberd deepdiscountdvd.com GREAT PLACE!!

Midori

Okay, as for extras, I can only report at this moment on the first disc.

Bad news first.

There isn't a "play all" feature --- sorry, I asked, but we're trying to limit the amount of programming that goes into the creation of the discs, and it adds a second layer of work on Salter's end, which also adds another level of testing on our end. Because we don't get the full episodes on the initial test DVD-Rs (there isn't enough room for them on a DVD-R, so we get truncated versions consisting of 10 minutes of each episode), we wouldn't be able to test the "play all" function until the final check disc stage, when we're about to go into replication and by that point it would be too late and too costly to correct anything. So no go on that, unfortunately (you can, though, always program your DVD player, as suggested previously on this board).

We also don't have any interviews, and there were no "making of" specials made, so the amount of video supplements available to us is kind of limited. We'd been informed that outtakes were archived, but so far nothing. (I have been told, though, that the deleted scenes from "Fluff Daddy" will be on that disc, which should be S4V3, so keep your eyes open for that one.) I've been bugging them about getting the outtakes reel that was shown at the wrap party, but there hasn't been any progress on that end. Perhaps for a future S4 disc.

So, as for what we *do* have, there's the usual (cast and character bios, storyboards, production sketches, trivia questions), plus we have a behind-the-scenes photo gallery (I haven't seen them yet, so I don't know how in-depth it is) and some raw CGI effects materials (again, I haven't seen this yet, so I'm curious as to what it looks like). I don't know if you'd call it a special feature (but I think it's pretty special), but this will be the first LEXX disc (and the first disc Acorn has done) that features a Dolby Digital 5.1 surround mix. It will also feature the usual DD 2.0 English-language track and 2.0 French-language track (both of which should also expand to surround-sound if you're using a Dolby Pro-Logic system). So there's that.

But that's all the news I have for now. I'm expecting initial DVD-R materials by the end of next week, so I should have a better grasp on everything by then.

--Aleck

Well, S4 coming out at all is good news!

But aleck, I still would like to see closed captioning on (at least) the S4 dvds. You explained earlier the why of it not being on the dvds...but no harm in wishing, eh?

quote:Originally posted by :
Well, S4 coming out at all is good news!

But aleck, I still would like to see closed captioning on (at least) the S4 dvds. You explained earlier the why of it not being on the dvds...but no harm in wishing, eh?

I'd like to see it, too, but the masters don't have closed-captioning already encoded (Sci-Fi, I believe, has them captioned themselves), and we can't have them sent out for captioning -- it's both time-and-cost-prohibitive. As I've said before, members of my family are hard-of-hearing, and while I'd like to show them the one project I'm probably most proud of, I can't because they'd have no way to enjoy it.

--Aleck

quote:Originally posted by mandara k:
I bought my first LEXX DVD and I was appalled to see Mr. M got top billing with Ms. Seeburg 2nd and Mr. Downey 3rd when it is the opposite in the show itself.

Jeez, Mandara, appalled? It's not like we left off episodes or called BD nasty names or anything like that...we just got the credits order wrong (something that also slipped past the guys at Salter when we sent the box copy in for approval), and it got picked up on the box copy on the rest of the S2 discs. We did correct the mistake on S3 (and we'll get it right again on S4), but there are worse things to have happen on a disc.

--Aleck

I find the annoying menu sequences on the S2V1 disc far more bothersome.