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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!darwin.sura.net!cs.ucf.edu!wilson
- From: wilson@cs.ucf.edu (tom wilson)
- Subject: Re: YALEM - "The Time Warrior"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.021108.20135@cs.ucf.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.ucf.edu (News system)
- Organization: University of Central Florida, Orlando
- References: <1992Dec28.110606.534@rivers> <4651@vidiot.UUCP> <1992Dec29.110228.543@rivers>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 02:11:08 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- ph9991_manfr@rivers.acc.uwrf.edu wrote:
- >In article <4651@vidiot.UUCP>, brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
- >> In article <1992Dec28.110606.534@rivers> ph9991_manfr@rivers.acc.uwrf.edu writes:
- >>[editing of videos deleted]
- >> Can't blame the problem on Lionheart. They had nothing to do with it. All
- >> tapes are edited via BBC Enterprises in England.
- >I think I most certainly can. If they were competent, they would watch the
- >tapes when they come in and then call England back and say, "Send us a proper
- >copy!" If they did this, then stupid little errors like this or the sound
- >FX on "Brain of Morbius" or "Resurrection of the Daleks" wouldn't slip
- >through.
-
- I think you be requiring that Lionheart employ experts for each show to be able
- to say something has been edited. New releases clearly say that the videos are
- original unedited recordings. I think it's common knowledge that all of the
- old releases (i.e. movie format) videos are edited. My way of fighting this is
- to buy the new releases and not the old releases. I have everything on tape
- already and I'm not going to buy a video just for the sake of a higher quality
- movie format tape. The fact that the new releases are episodic is what makes
- me buy them. I urge others to do the same. Maybe the difference in sales
- numbers might make them re-release the old ones (probably not - what do you do
- recall the old ones?).
-
- On the topic of produced videos, I finally got around to getting Tomb. I told
- one other person about this problem and his video had it too. In episode 4,
- near the beginning, Toberman sits up on a table. The next scene is in front of
- the tombs. When the camera zooms in on the tombs (I think the Cybermen are
- sealing themselves in), there are several glitches in the scan lines. It is
- very easy to see if the problem is there. It lasts about 5 seconds (during the
- whole tomb zoom 8-). Can anyone verify it? or should I be returning mine? If
- it's there and it's not on the master tape, this makes two CBS/Fox releases
- with problems, the other being The War Games (which I know is not on the master
- tape). CBS/Fox never replied to my letter about the problem.
-
- I want to do my little bit to keep Doctor Who alive by buying the videos and
- maybe a few novels, but I don't want to get screwed by the people who don't
- really give a shit about the show, rather just the money.
-
- Tom
-