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Does anyone know how the specs compare between:
Walking With Prehistoric Beasts (R1)
and
Walking With Beasts (R2)
I know Walking with Prehistoric Beasts is full frame,
is the R2 release in WS?
Cheers
Imdb shows a different narator in the usa, Stockard Channing I think.
I own the Walking With Prehistoric Beasts 2 disc R1 set and it's 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen with the same narrator that did Walking With Dinosaurs. They're both outstanding IMO.
Thanks for the info, every site that I've looked up R1 WWPB on says that its 1.33:1
kerbcrawler
22-02-2002, 12:54
Wait for the R2 release as I think it will have a couple more extras than the R1. The US release was rushed through - hence the differences. There is also a rumour of another UK special edition for Christmas that may incorporate some of the other interactive features from the digital transmissions - but I wouldn't count on it.
R2 will be the way to go here.
I'm waiting for the R2.
It annoys me that there might be 2 different R2s coming out though!
Saw this on the DVDTimes site today:
DVDs from the BBC on April 8th 2002...
Walking with Beasts will be a 2-disc set retailing at £24.99. Disc One contains all six-episodes presented in Anamorphic widescreen with DD2.0 Stereo sound and English subtitles for the Hard of Hearing. Disc two contains two 50-minute documentaries, 'The Beasts Within' is a special on scientists search for man's link to apes, 'Triumph of the Beasts' is a special on the rise of the mammal. Crew interviews, a photo gallery and a set of graphical fact files on the main creatures featured round off the 2nd disc of extra features.
Why don't the have the 'In-Depth Narration' soundtrack from the digital broadcasts? It was much better than the fluff presented on the main programme?
Originally posted by 2099net
Why don't the have the 'In-Depth Narration' soundtrack from the digital broadcasts? It was much better than the fluff presented on the main programme?
Dunno - it was probably a cost issue.
Don't forget - only people with SKY Digital actually got the option of the in-depth dialogue, so most buyers of the DVD won't know that it was ever there in the first place.
Maybe the Christmas special edition will have the extra dialogue track - we can hope. :)
Originally posted by 8-]
Dunno - it was probably a cost issue.
Don't forget - only people with SKY Digital actually got the option of the in-depth dialogue, so most buyers of the DVD won't know that it was ever there in the first place.
Maybe the Christmas special edition will have the extra dialogue track - we can hope. :)
But surely most SKY Digibox owners are also DVD player owners?
What's this about an additional release? Has this been confirmed? Something I find very worrying coming from the BBC, after all we did fund the programme in the first place, and I resent being asked to pay to own it twice!
Originally posted by 2099net
But surely most SKY Digibox owners are also DVD player owners?
What's this about an additional release? Has this been confirmed? Something I find very worrying coming from the BBC, after all we did fund the programme in the first place, and I resent being asked to pay to own it twice!
Precisely my thoughts on the subject. I try carefully to purchase the superior version of every release I own, and re-releasing updated, new and improved discs annoys the hell out of me.
If there is a just reason, or it is done without blatant attempt to milk more cash out of the same product then I don't mind, examples of which include such films which had releases in the early days of the format before the full potential of dvd had been tapped, or The Matrix second disc available separately for the owners of the original material.
The Beeb doing this, like eight months down the line, isn't really on, especially as we have funded the programme initially.
Charlie
kerbcrawler
11-03-2002, 08:55
There's been no official release about any special edition which may or may not have the alternative/interactive commentaries included. There's just been a rumour of the possibility. As to why these were not included on the original - simple answer is that the DVD needed to go in to production, within a particular budget (not paid for or even subsidised by the licence fee) and the interactive elements simply were not ready and the DVD probably would not be profitable (and it is these profits that subsidise BBC production in order to keep the licence fee from doubling).
As for this original programme being funded by 'you' - that is only partially true since only a percentage of BBC money comes from the licence fee and that covers all TV and radio programming. Added to this is the fact that WWB is a co-production between the BBC, Discovery and Pro Sieben (amongst others) so when it comes down to it very little of this programme was paid for by 'you'.
And precisely why can a special edition release not be done by the BBC when it is acceptable for other distributors to do so? If this product were to be released in a special edition incorporating all the additional audio tracks available on Digital transmissions then it would need to be at least a 4 disc set with only 2 or so episodes per disc and that would not be priofitable when the only notable market for such a product would be the UK itself.
So you see there are many reasons why we don't get the perfect product only some of which I've tried to cover here. My suggestion to you is if you think you can rally enough support to demonstrate the worthwile of releasing a full on release of any BBC title then do that - especially since that seems to have worked with such titles as Twin Peaks and My So Called Life.
It always amuses me that the "The BBC owes us because of our licence fee" way of thinking comes out very quickly.....
I thought that it was common knowledge that large projects (especially documentaries) are often co-funded by different companies/countries. You only have to look at the credits of things like Blue Planet to see the list of sponsors.
Deeply disapointed as we much prefered the in deapth commentary, though due to pressure I may have to buy this with only the Brannaugh commentary it will be annoying and dissapointing after the more in deapth commentary offered on sky. Would a second audio commentary really have taken up so much space, we could have lived without the interactive features, but, this second commentary was far more interesting.
I was looking forward to the in-depth commentary as I missed some of the 6 episodes and some of the ones I actually viewed I saw away from home (i.e. on BBC without the in-depth commentary).
Here's hoping... :)
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