Twin Peaks

skel · Post by **skel** » Fri May 16, 2008 7:18 pm

Side note sorry, Shitscared, is the Twin Peaks gold box worth the 80 buck outlay? i dropped 36 bucks on 30 Rock this week and even though its awesome, i was pissed at the lack of features. Twin Peaks had a shitload but is it worth the cash?

menagers · Post by **menagers** » Sat May 17, 2008 7:46 am

Do it. I had my VHS collection on layby at Target for 3 months, and the blood, sweat and tears that went into paying off that, I kid you not, $196 was worth it just for the series alone sans extras. But really, the only cool thing about owning such a space swallowing collection is that the spines, when placed together, spell TWIN PEAKS.

Ugh, so many DVD's to buy in this world!

13 schoolyards · Post by **13 schoolyards** » Sat May 17, 2008 3:04 pm

skel wrote:Side note sorry, Shitscared, is the Twin Peaks gold box worth the 80 buck outlay? i dropped 36 bucks on 30 Rock this week and even though its awesome, i was pissed at the lack of features. Twin Peaks had a shitload but is it worth the cash?

Hell yeah it is, just for the insanely evil final episode - or here's a budget tip: all the DVD snobs sold their season 1 & 2 boxsets to get the Gold box, so they're not too hard to find second hand cheap (and have pretty much the same extras). And yeah, what was up with the lame-o 30 Rock DVD set? The US one has heaps of extras, and is pretty much the same price ordered from Amazon. I thought the local labels had figured that crap out.

baudrillard · Post by **baudrillard** » Sat May 17, 2008 3:09 pm

Are you joking. Australian releases of almost every film are missing the extras, the commentary tracks and just about anything that isn't the actual film/show. It has always been the case not only with DVD releases but also back in the days of CD singles, you'd get 1 b-side, whereas the US/UK releases would have 3 b-sides. I'd have to import SINGLES all the time because of it. That's small scale capitalism, even when something's not going to cost them that much extra, they're going to not include it to cut costs. I stopped buying Australian releases of anything long before I started grabbing everything off the internet.

13 schoolyards · Post by **13 schoolyards** » Sat May 17, 2008 3:16 pm

I must disagree, my friend - a few years back you might have been correct but these days Aussie releases are a lot closer to the US / UK ones as far as extras go, simply because they know people'll go overseas to get the good stuff and competition is way, way stiffer. Just saying "hey, here's a movie out on DVD" isn't enough to get sales (especially with DVD sales levelling off). To take a recent example: 3.10 to Yuma (top film, by the by) has the exact same extras here as the US edition. As does the 2-disc version of Cloverfield. Heck, the 2-disc version of Serenity had MORE extras here than the US one did.

There's always going to be some bare-bones titles coming out here (the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie is missing all the cool stuff), but it's a lot less common than it once was. Even the local edition of Dead Man's Shoes has (almost) all the cool extras, and that's hardly a big name title.

baudrillard · Post by **baudrillard** » Sat May 17, 2008 3:20 pm

Okay, maybe in the last couple of years, but before that it was THE RULE. Don't forget I don't even go to video stores or buy anything anymore. It's all off the internet for me. My connection is so insane now I'm downloading entire DVDs rather than compressed versions of films!:!! :E(!#!)

13 schoolyards · Post by **13 schoolyards** » Sat May 17, 2008 3:23 pm

Sweet. I'm constantly telling people that blu-ray is never going to take off because it's all going to be downloads in a few years (how many better formats than CD have they come up with - it's in the double figures, but they never take off because everyone's using iPods). I'm such a top conversationalist...

baudrillard · Post by **baudrillard** » Sat May 17, 2008 3:24 pm

Only problem is you can now download HD DVDs like blu-ray

13 schoolyards · Post by **13 schoolyards** » Sat May 17, 2008 3:34 pm

That's what I meant - the whole idea of 'DVDs' existing in a physical form only has a few years left to go whatever the format they're recorded in.

I was talking to a 2nd hand shop owner recently and he said if you wanted to sell your CD collection you'd already missed the bus as far as getting anything close to your money back, and as far as DVDs go there's only a year or so left before the bottom totally drops out of that market too.

But the Twin Peaks box set is still totally worth getting.

baudrillard · Post by **baudrillard** » Sat May 17, 2008 4:23 pm

Eventually nothing will be physical. I think the day I stopped obssessing about packaging was the day I discovered napster. Before that I had to have ever edition of every copy of everything. Now I'm post-physical. Everything is a blank DVDr or a harddrive. Then we'll eventually have those implants so that everything is accessible internally just like William Gibson wrote in the 80s in Neuromancer. Feels a bit like that already for me to be honest.