The weak image in the television screen flickered before altering into the image of the upper section of the Dalek Supreme. The iris of its eyestalk rotated as it worked to focus.
“PEOPLE OF EARTH!” it grated. “MANY CLAIM TO RULE THE WORLD. THEY LIE! THE DALEKS ARE YOUR RULERS. ALL OPPOSITION WILL BE REMOVED!
“PEOPLE OF EARTH! EMERGE FROM YOUR HIDING PLACES. YOU WILL BE FED. YOU WILL BE GIVEN WORK. THOSE THAT CONTINUE TO RESIST WE BE EXTERMINATED!
“PEOPLE OF EARTH! WE ARE THE RULERS OF EARTH! NOW AND FOREVER YOU ARE LIVING UNDER THE LAW OF THE DALEKS!”
- The preceding is a preview of the novelization of ‘Compound Geeks’ episode ‘CoNIS Part Three’, which is scheduled to appear on the KTNE forums on 11-Dec-2006. -
06 December 2006
05 December 2006
Not-so-Special Editions
Have you ever re-bought some piece of entertainment? A CD or a DVD or what have you? I’m not talking about upgrading; when you replace a VHS tape version of something with a DVD version or replacing a cassette tape with a CD. That’s a totally different concept which, while still considered abnormal by some people, is reasonable to the average collector. What I’m here discussing is the rebuying of an item that you already have because a ‘better’ or ‘special’ version gets released.
Sometimes this makes sense, well, as much sense as anyone with the collector disease can make. Some movies were released early in the days of DVD and weren’t in the correct ratio or weren’t remastered or weren’t restored in any way or had no extra features or I’ve used 'or' too many times in one sentence. The same goes for some CDs. There are a few bands that had their albums released early in the days of CDs. Those CDs were poorly mastered and have never been revisited. The first two examples that spring to mind are the works of the Beatles and Anthrax. Neither sound as good as they should.
Just as often a movie is re-released on DVD just ‘cause. The release isn’t to ‘fix’ any earlier failings but it probably has some new extra features to encourage the ‘need’ to get this new release. Generally there is a logic behind the re-release; a reason for the new version beyond just releasing it for the money. Sometimes the new version is released to help promote the sequel to the original movie and the new DVD has a few seconds of the new movie on it. Sometimes the entire series of a film series is being re-released and this allows the studio to commonalize the packaging.
Why did I start this again? Oh yeah. I’ve gotten better at not automatically re-buying things. The re-release of ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’? Left it on the shelf. That new ‘The Punisher: Special Edition’? Didn’t even get near the store when it came out. And so on.
With that said, there are some things that I’d gladly re-buy if it were remastered or fixed. I mentioned the Beatles and Anthrax albums previously. There’s a rumour from Britain that work is being done on the ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’ television show to get it remastered and restored to it’s original edit as well as including some non aired sketches. That would please me.
I seem to have forgotten the point of this discussion. Perhaps it was just to mention the Python rumour. Isn’t that enough?
Sometimes this makes sense, well, as much sense as anyone with the collector disease can make. Some movies were released early in the days of DVD and weren’t in the correct ratio or weren’t remastered or weren’t restored in any way or had no extra features or I’ve used 'or' too many times in one sentence. The same goes for some CDs. There are a few bands that had their albums released early in the days of CDs. Those CDs were poorly mastered and have never been revisited. The first two examples that spring to mind are the works of the Beatles and Anthrax. Neither sound as good as they should.
Just as often a movie is re-released on DVD just ‘cause. The release isn’t to ‘fix’ any earlier failings but it probably has some new extra features to encourage the ‘need’ to get this new release. Generally there is a logic behind the re-release; a reason for the new version beyond just releasing it for the money. Sometimes the new version is released to help promote the sequel to the original movie and the new DVD has a few seconds of the new movie on it. Sometimes the entire series of a film series is being re-released and this allows the studio to commonalize the packaging.
Why did I start this again? Oh yeah. I’ve gotten better at not automatically re-buying things. The re-release of ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’? Left it on the shelf. That new ‘The Punisher: Special Edition’? Didn’t even get near the store when it came out. And so on.
With that said, there are some things that I’d gladly re-buy if it were remastered or fixed. I mentioned the Beatles and Anthrax albums previously. There’s a rumour from Britain that work is being done on the ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’ television show to get it remastered and restored to it’s original edit as well as including some non aired sketches. That would please me.
I seem to have forgotten the point of this discussion. Perhaps it was just to mention the Python rumour. Isn’t that enough?
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