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Current Talk '02 II / Re: OT - DS DVD: your opinions appreciated
« on: August 20, 2002, 07:42:13 PM »
Hello All,

I've been keeping an eye on the DS Forums and enjoy the feedback on our discs. Dark Shadows DVD Collection 2 has just been released, and I look forward to your feedback on them. We did all the encoding and authoring here in our new DVD facilities at MPI, and spent great lengths in preparing the masters, and re-encoding the picture and sound to try and maximize quality.
We are however putting 4 hours on each disc which in itself is such a large amount of video that compression is inevitable (average Hollywood release is less than 2 hours total), that's the trade off for trying to give the most value in the discs.
Since we are trying to put the most episodes  possible, we are limited in space for bonus materials, and we are using bonus interviews from preexisting interview segments due to release schedules.
There are plans for producing new bonus materials on upcoming collections, so that is something to look forward to. In the mean time, we hope you enjoy the interviews from the archives.
Let me know if you see a difference in quality on DS collection 2, and we'll keep trying to give you the best we can!
db

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: Grrr! DS DVD
« on: July 12, 2002, 12:12:05 AM »
Hi All,

I do DVD authoring here at MPI and although I did not create the first Dark Shadows set, I have viewed all the discs on many different set top and computer DVD players. We always try to create discs that will be compatible with as many players as possible. It's quite rare for discs themselves to be defective, so much as they may be programmed in a way that certain older players, and suprisingly some of the very high end progressive scan new players may have issue with.
We are always interested in knowing about issues with our discs and are open to suggestions to make the experience for you, the viewers, the most enjoyable, with ease of navigation and user guidance programmed on the disc.

For those of you having problems playing these discs on older model players, most manufacturers have created "firmware updates" that solve many problems on the players. You can contact the manufacturer, but there is a website called www.vcdhelp.com with many useful tools, links, and information about players, DVD's and VCD's as well.

Looking forward to your feedback and comments,
db.

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