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DVD out in 5 days - But no reviews - CRAZY!

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Winterbottom

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Everyday, I diligently go through all of the important DVD sites, searching for news on the two DVDs that I am currently drooling about. LOTR:FOTR Extended edition, and of course the B5 season 1 DVD.

Yet everyday, I am disappointed with regards to ANY news regarding the B5 discs. Now there are 5 days to go until the discs are apparently to be released in the UK, and not a word from anyone. In fact, for some discs, 5 days would be the time for the luckiest pre-orders to have arrived. Yet not one DVD site, as far as I can see, has even said that they have the DVD and are about to review it.

I can only conclude from this, the following pieces of blatant suppositions
1) That WB may be delaying the R2 DVD for a second time (to be in line with the later released R1 version)
2) That WB are not going to too much effort to promote this DVD
3) That the universe has gone mad! /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

I would like to finally, go on the record and say that I am definitely not a WB bashing B5 fan. I think they have done allot that as a B5 fan I am grateful for. It's just that as far as I can see it, with regards to the DVD release, they call the shots.

Percival Winterbottom
 
I wouldnt be surprised if british B5 R2 DVDs would delay again because according to BBFC website ( http://www.bbfc.co.uk ) latest extra was classified on 15 October.

Is it sufficient time (a'la 10 days) to produce them and sent screeners to press?
 
Just a follow up.

I have ordered my DVD from dvd.co.uk (sorry ANT, but I'm a poor student, and they are the cheapest).

Anyway I asked them when they will ship it, and got the following email reply

</font><blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr />

Thank you for your enquiry.

We are expecting to Despatch all Babylon 5 on Saturday. We will despatch it
by first class royal mail, which normally take 1-3 working days to be
delivered.

So you may receive it on the Monday.

Regards,

Jason Nicolson
Customer Services
Dvd.co.uk Ltd
orders@dvd.co.uk


[/quote]

So it looks like, as far as they are concerned, it's still Monday.

Percival Winterbottom
 
for UK B5 fans (releated to DVDs so i will not make a new topic):

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Tuesday 29th October 2002
Pages Bar and Dark Knights present
A One Knight Stand with Claudia Christian

Dark Knights celebrate the launch of B5 DVD releases with a PA and
signing session from Commander Ivanova herself - Claudia Christian

Claudia will be in Pages Bar (Westminster London) from 6-30pm on the
29th October to do a personal appearance and a signing session for fans of Claudia and Babylon 5

Claudia has agreed to as well as a guest talk to also do a signing session for people in the bar. So a great chance for everyone who has bought or will be buying their B5 Season One Boxset to get them signed the day after release and really commemorate the release

Entry for the night will be £5 on the door with her PA talk commencing at 6-30 and as many fans will know, CC is a great guest to hear talk.

Further details can be found on www.pagesbar.com and www.dark-knights.com as well as directions to the bar.

Come along and celebrate the release of the best sci-fi show on DVD with the Dark Knights..
 
dispatch This may be the british way of saying they will ship it will send it along .I 'm not a brit /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gifbut someone else can correct me if I am wrong .
 
</font><blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr />
1) That WB may be delaying the R2 DVD for a second time (to be in line with the later released R1 version)
2) That WB are not going to too much effort to promote this DVD
3) That the universe has gone mad!

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4) WB has sent out screener copies and very few DVD critics had any idea what the show was, because it isn't exactly a household word, and they haven't bothered to watch it, much less review it. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

While we're all terribly excited about the release of this set, you have to realize that the show barely registers on the radar of most pro- and semi-pro DVD review sites - and they're the ones who get advanced review copies. They get lots of advanced review copies, mostly feature films, but also other TV shows. Their critics may post 7 or 8 reviews a week. So, if B5: S1 is one of 20 screeners that show up in a given week, and most of them are recent feature films, classic films that people have been lobbying to get released and TV series that have much bigger audiences, what are the odds the B5 is going to be one of the 7 or 8 the get reviewed?

Regards,

Joe
 
I always thought 'despatch' was perfectly normal British English (as opposed to American English).
 
You can dispatch criminals by hanging them.

There is one DVD magazine that lists the Region 1 Babylon 5 but not the Region 2 DVDs.
 
</font><blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr />
You can dispatch criminals by hanging them.

[/quote]

On this side of The Pond we've simplified our lives by using one spelling for all variations on the word. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

</font><blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr />
There is one DVD magazine that lists the Region 1 Babylon 5 but not the Region 2 DVDs.

[/quote]

But does it have a review? (And if so, can you summarize it for us?)

Regards,

Joe
 
I don't know what is going on in the U.K. Maybe review copies were never sent out. Maybe the reviews won't appear until tomorrow, the official release date. Certainly plenty of regular people over there started receiving their discs between Thursday and Saturday, so we should start seeing some comments on the discs, if not formal, professional reviews.

One TV/Video critic that I know of in the U.S. reports that he received his review copy last Wednesday, and that "the usual suspects" should have theirs as well, and we should all expect to start seeing reviews of the R1 set this week, maybe as early as tomorrow. So at least we know that Warner Bros. did send screeners to critics over here.

Regards,

Joe
 
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