Season 3 on DVD?

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Originally posted by Puny Human 354:
You don't really need to translate it, just press "35" on your DVD remote and it shows you the translation (the background says "FOX" by the way).

What? How? Why?
35 was one of the first things I tried out when I got the dvds. (We are talking titles, right?) How does this translate to a PS2?

[Reply #601 on:]

I presume it is a title. I am not familiar with the workings of the PS2, but if it is like the standard remote you will need to press 10> (or something similar) and then 3 and then 5. This is whilst you are on the Alien Disclaimer.

Maybe someone who has a PS2 can help you better. Sorry.

[Reply #602 on:]

 

Originally posted by Tweek:
 

Originally posted by SQFreak:
 I take that to mean Virgin.
No, that's extremely bad news[/i][/u]!!! I have to buy mine at the Virgin MegaStore at Picadilly Circus on Tuesday!

Why do you HAVE to get it there, WHSmith has a better price.

OK, I'll try that. Except WHSmith isn't in a very-easy-to-find location like Picadilly Circus. I'll look anyway.

The WHSmith.co.uk Website locked up IE. Grr.

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Okay, I can't be bothered to look back in the thread to see if anyone's posted this but I'll post it anyway. DVD monthly reviewed the season 3 set this month and gave it 5 stars (top marks) for the episodes, and 3 stars for the extras. They also made a little attack on Fox which shows that someone actually supports us out there.

In other news, my DVD's should be arriving soon but since I'm at my parents now I can't find out if they've arrived. Hopefully by Thursday I'll have them...

[Reply #604 on:]

3 stars for the extras? We are not amused!

::Contains monarchical anger::

Nah, i'm just joshing ya, they're entitled to their wrong opinions.

[Reply #605 on:]

idiots, extras for tv shows are a little different than ones for movies, you cant rate them the same

[Reply #606 on:]

Hmm a little less than 24hrs til I should have my s3 box set... hmm a little less than 48hrs til my next exam...

WHY DOES GOD HATE ME?!

[Reply #607 on:]

screw the exam, or, you could get one of those little dvd players with a small screen so you could watch it at the same time, hmmm, that gets me thinking, i, emanon, could do that at work

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3 stars for the extras? We are not amused!

It's all a matter of opinion. We may find a a guide on how to draw Fry and Leela interesting but not everyone does. Personally, I think it would be nice to have a documentary on the animation or the voice artists.

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well you are all complaining about 3 stars for extras, do you agree with total dvd's review?
 http://www.totaldvd.net/cgi-bin/dvdreviews.php?dvdid=4880

"Extras 8
Again we are spoilt for choice which an extras packed boxset. Contained within are Audio Commentaries for each episode, Photo Galleries, Deleted Scenes, Easter Eggs, Animatics, How to Draw Characters and an animated commentary for one of the episodes. Altogether this is a very substansial package of extras which will give fans many hours of fun trawling through."

Also not alot of tv dvds offer commentry for every single episode in the series!

[Reply #610 on:]

EMANON- I win Tuesday June 10th 1:11pm!   

Edit:
Well Inbetween study this arvo I managed to see a bit of it, listened to a couple of commentaries for episodes, after hearing "Nobody Cares" I am glad to have spent my $70!

[Reply #611 on:]

Have you tried having the audio commentary on when you watch the deleted scenes on disc (1 or 2)?

david x cohen can be heard singing a little and so on.
Unless you smart guys didn't already know...

[Reply #612 on:]

@ grim or anyone, does airmail (amazon) cost more becaue its a hell of a lot quicker?

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The commentry for future stock is great! Matt groening calling David Cohen was really funny!

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Have you noticed on the front of the case for the second disc *S5 spoiler upahead!*...

Show spoiler

That Fry's jetpack is on upside down, just like in the Sting?

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Originally posted by Lurrr:
 It's all a matter of opinion. We may find a a guide on how to draw Fry and Leela interesting but not everyone does. Personally, I think it would be nice to have a documentary on the animation or the voice artists.

You know the featurettes on the S1 DVDs?  Originally they were part of a 15 minute "Making of Futurama" programme, and included interviews with the three main voice artists.

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Grim, my postman comes in the morning but i was at work 10th June when it came, the guy next door said he came at 11:30am but beacause i was at work and didn't open it until 5:45pm i guess you win, congratulations. I had your prize delivered to you on Tuesday 10 June 1:11pm.....enjoy!!! p.s love the commentary for Birdbot with Billy West talking through it as Dr Zoidburg, funny stuff!!

[Reply #617 on:]

It was a little extra special to get the S3 DVD set for me.  I never got to see Route of All Evil because it was pre-empted.  I watched it tonight on DVD, sweet.

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I can't wait until I get mine, it has 3 ep's i havent seen bcos of pre-emptions and not being shown here yet!

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I don't want to get too fussy over this, but...

 

Altogether this is a very substansial package of extras which will give fans many hours of fun trawling through.

All publications have differing guidelines on how to review material, but Total DVD pointed out that most of the material is aimed at fans. DVD monthly obviously feels that that this is more of a hindrance then an advantage. Besides, they gave the episodes top marks, what more do you want?!?!

 

You know the featurettes on the S1 DVDs? Originally they were part of a 15 minute "Making of Futurama" programme, and included interviews with the three main voice artists.

Why, oh why? I have to get a copy of that.

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Is it just me, or is the Scene Selection on Disc Three for "I dated a Robot", "A Leela of her own" and "A Pharaoh to Remember" screwed up?

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Originally posted by Gocad:
Is it just me, or is the Scene Selection on Disc Three for "I dated a Robot", "A Leela of her own" and "A Pharaoh to Remember" screwed up?

If by "screwed up" you mean different from the other sets then yes it is. On the season 1 and 2 sets the scenes were 1 - cold opening, 2 - act one, 3 - act two, 4 - act three and 5 - credits. But it seems like they stuck the scene breaks in weird places this time. Makes it harder to skip the opening credits quickly 

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Can someone confirm that the table read is 35 minutes long! My dvd player thought it was an hour and 10 minutes long, and I was suprised when it ended at 35 minutes.

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I'm having trouble playing the DVDs on my PC. With PowerDVD i get this:
"The TV Out card is not functioning corrently. Cannot play the copyrighted DVD" (Or something similar)
Media Player gives me this:
"Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because a problem occurred with copyright protection." (Clicking "More Info" locked up my PC)

I can play them if i restart and run power DVD ASAP, but i don't even have TV Out setup at the moment!

[Reply #624 on:]

I got that, I think, on the S3 Disc 3. Something like "Macrovision protection error". Ejecting then reinserting the disc fixed it for some reason.

[Reply #625 on:]

I had a similarish problem with a Simpson S1 disc.  The first time I tried it, the player insisted that it was the wrong region.  Ejecting and reinserting it fixed that problem too.

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Originally posted by Smitty:
 If by "screwed up" you mean different from the other sets then yes it is. On the season 1 and 2 sets the scenes were 1 - cold opening, 2 - act one, 3 - act two, 4 - act three and 5 - credits. But it seems like they stuck the scene breaks in weird places this time. Makes it harder to skip the opening credits quickly   

No, I meant that if you try to use the Scene Selection for one of the episodes mentioned above, you end up on the selection screen for "Time keeps on slippin'"...
So the Scene Selection doesn't work properly for the three episodes mentioned above...

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All I know is that yesterday I finally got my season 3 DVD's, and I love 'em.

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I've been doing nothing but watching season 3 now. First regularly and then with commentary. Those are the best commentaries that I've heard in a long time.
Has anyone found any of the easter eggs promised on the package?

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Originally posted by aslate:
I'm having trouble playing the DVDs on my PC. With PowerDVD i get this:
"The TV Out card is not functioning corrently. Cannot play the copyrighted DVD" (Or something similar)
Media Player gives me this:
"Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because a problem occurred with copyright protection." (Clicking "More Info" locked up my PC)

I can play them if i restart and run power DVD ASAP, but i don't even have TV Out setup at the moment!

I've had trouble playing the third disc using my ATI player. When I skip past the final copyright warning before the alien language one it seizes up. I know four works but I'm not sure about one and two.

[Reply #630 on:]

I think that this is probabaly the second worst Futurama DVDs yet.
All the screes are so cold and dark, the extras are pretty bad and the intros are flash 5.

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Did anybody notice that some Episodes don't have a French language track? Not that this would be a problem for me, but sofar nobody had mentioned this.
Also, the scene selection feature problem turns up on the other discs as well.

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I guess France haven't aired FOX season 4 yet. Hence no dubbing made.

 

Originally posted by swarez:
I've been doing nothing but watching season 3 now. First regularly and then with commentary. Those are the best commentaries that I've heard in a long time.
Has anyone found any of the easter eggs promised on the package?

Yes, there are three.

Show spoiler

Disc 1 -> select Amazon Women In the Mood -> Left -> enter - gives a list of original and never used opening titles

Disc 1 -> select A Tale Of Two Santas -> left -> enter - gives an audio only table read of the episode. This one is hillarious.

Disc 1 -> select A Tale Of Two Santas -> left -> up -> enter - gives an intro to the episode from David X Cohen, and his take on FOX censoring the episode, very funny.

Welcome to PEEL. Enjoy it here.

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A lot of people seem to be having technical problems with the disks. I mainly play mine on my Sony DVD player and everything works perfectly. However ive noticed that when i play them on my laptop i can't access the stills gallery. hardly a big deal but i think that the problems arise on PC DVD players because they all have different sofware and specifications...
Just play them on a purpose built DVD player connected to a TV and they're perfect. Afterall that is the players only function, to play DVDs.
 

[Reply #634 on:]

im also on a new sony player and have had no problems. Anyone else noticed how much better episode 'the route of all evil' looks compared to all the others, its so much clearer!

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All the episode's image quality looks about the same to me.
The should all be the same coz they are taken from the digital source... unlike another Groening cartoon that I wont name.

[Reply #636 on:]

I play mine on a Sony DVD player too, it's pretty old, it came out in 2000. But everything works perfectly for me  And about 'The Route of All Evil', I found every episode to be crystal clear and razor sharp. However, although all the episodes were produced as part of the same production season, on DVD it become apparent that some of them had been animated slightly differently, but only very slightly. I think it's cool though 

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No problem with my discs or player so I'm good.
And thanks for the tips Teral, that's a neat way to hide spoilers.

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Originally posted by M Jackson:
However ive noticed that when i play them on my laptop i can't access the stills gallery. hardly a big deal but i think that the problems arise on PC DVD players because they all have different sofware and specifications...

This happens with some DVDs on my Apple Mac as well (especailly the Futurama DVDs).

The solution for me is to select the options with the keypad rather than the mouse...don't know if that's any help.
Try using VideoLAN to play your DVDs as well, that normally sorts out many of my problems (if slow on my G3)

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Originally posted by Gocad:
Did anybody notice that some Episodes don't have a French language track? Not that this would be a problem for me, but sofar nobody had mentioned this.

On a related note, has anyone noticed that there don't appear to be any French PEELers?