DVD Commentary Transcripts

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Should we start making them? I mean, for the people who can't get Season 2 in at least 5 months and Season 3 when Robot Hell Freezes over... Sorry, I ment REAL Hell*. Should we do transcripts?


*In the Hell Is Other Robots deleted scene Fry says that Robot Hell freezes from November (I think) to March.

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If we did that on here and fox found out they wouldnt be too happy...

why buy the DVDs when u can get all the extra info off the web, if people REALLY want the DVDs now order them from britain!

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Are the britain DVDs at all different than the US ones?

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El Zilcho:
In content? No.

DVDs from Europe are region-coded to DVD Region 2, while the U.S. is in Region 1. In addition, the UK uses the PAL colo(u)r system, while the U.S. uses the NTSC color system.

Stick a UK DVD in your generic US DVD player/drive and you'll get a Wrong region code error. You can, however, buy Region-Free DVD players with built-in PAL-to-NTSC converters. I don't know of any off-hand, but I'm sure someone could point you in the right direction.

Grim: We already have full transcripts of the episodes! What would be the harm in transcribing the commentary? That's a hell of a lot less copyrighted than the scripts, considering it's not scripted. The real draw of the DVDs is being able to watch the episodes in excellent quality - even those you forgot to tape. The commentary is really only interesting to hardcore fans - in other words, PEELers.

But, let's take a consensus.

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It would be nice to see those commentaries, although it IS a bit risky. If it's done, it should be done on a temporary "dummy" site that nobody would miss if it got shut down.

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Well, TNP hasn't gotten shut down, what about that site? If the Webmaster would agree...

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I was thinking more along the lines of taking 10 minutes to create a Tripod account and uploading a fewof HTML pages (containing the commentaries) and logo that says "FUTURAMA" on it.

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Wouldnt hardcore fans just buy the DVDs?

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Of course they would. The trouble is, some of us are broke students who can't afford to spend $200+ on a deregionalized DVD player and will have to wait forever for the DVDs since they live in the US.

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There are some DVD transcripts on The Neutral Planet

But i don't think there are any commentary transcripts.

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The commentaries on S2 have subtitles (not sure about S1), so there's likely to be some sort of FOX legal mumbo about the text being copyrighted. I could be wrong.

Oh, and the subtitles are crappy anyway, missing a lot of the subtleties of the banter. But it'd be an easy way to transcribe them, no?

*Subtleties _and_ subtitles in the same sentence? that hurts my brain*

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S1 don't have subtitles for the commentaries, so now you know...

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SamuelXDiamond: They do?!? How do you access the subtitles for the S2 commentaries?

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For some unfathomable reason, MVC sold me a copy of S2 which defaults to giving me Italian subtitles everytime I insert a disc. So, I have to correct it "in-flight" whenever I forget to do so from the menu.

Pressing the subtitle button on my remote brings up a list of 8 different subtitle options. Number 6 is the subbed english AC.

7 is the commentary in French, 8 is in Italian!

There may be an easier way to get them BUT I LIKE THIS WAY

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Yes, it does work. How shockingly shocking.
I'm currently trying to extract the subtitles and slap them into a text file and post it on my Website. Stay tuned for updates.

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i have dont it!!!!!

only i have the most recent posts in all catagories that relate to futurama!!!

YES!!!!

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I've done 2ACV01 - I Second That Emotion. (From the subtitles.) Season 1 will take a lot more work, but everyone has that by now!   

Okay, on a Tripod site, as suggested:
 http://angrydome.tripod.com

What do you think?

If anyone cares, I'd be glad to post my procedures.

EDIT: Oh, and if anyone wants the raw subtitles (not the HTML-ized version) in whatever format, let me know, either by posting or by e-mail!

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Nice work, SQFreak, thanks! Greatly appreciated!

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Would help if they were also as a transcript and not one that's a subtitles too.

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Originally posted by Anarchist:
Of course they would. The trouble is, some of us are broke students who can't afford to spend $200+ on a deregionalized DVD player and will have to wait forever for the DVDs since they live in the US.

u can pick up a region unlockable DVD drive for $40US or less, slap it in your PC and bingo. Also people will region hack your existing DVD machine for cheap enough

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Oh. I didn't know that. I'll be sure to invest in that when I get some cash together. (I wasn't kidding when I said 'broke'.)

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Anarchist: If you've got a DVD drive in your computer, check out http://www.firmware.fr.st
They might have some RPC-1 firmware. They did for my DVD drive and for my laptop's DVD drive.

Aslate: Any ideas on how I can strip the stuff we don't want?

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Is this site still going? I was thinking of doing a transcript of the alternate RTEW commentary to pad out the featurettes section at TNP but if someone has already done it then obviously I don't want overlapping content.

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No, I just did that one. You can do the rest.

You can use mine if you want.

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No I don't really plan to do all of them, just the alternate one and I'll probably do the writing one for Jurassic Bark when season 4 is out.

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Originally posted by Anarchist:
Of course they would. The trouble is, some of us are broke students who can't afford to spend $200+ on a deregionalized DVD player and will have to wait forever for the DVDs since they live in the US.

I saw a mutli-region player for £59 on Amazon. Still not nothing but pretty good value!