KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!1!

Oh well, when I paid twice that a couple years ago it seemed like a bargain.

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I'm tempted, but one of the customer reviews bothers me enough that I probably won't buy. Partial quote:

1. The bit rate is about 2/3 of the ADV discs. I expected this to be lower since A&E is squeezing about twice the number of episodes onto a disc - ADV put two episodes while this set piles on four per disc. The only way to do this is to compress the programs more. Quality-wise, the image is still remarkably good, and I didn't hear any differences in the audio quality.

2. Unlike the ADV discs, these are not progressive scan encoded - the video is interlaced. Some players don't handle interlaced video properly when they try to convert it to progressive scan output, and jittering can appear in motion. This drops the image quality on players that are outputting a progressive video.

3. For some reason, A&E didn't bother using the original source material, and instead, used their broadcast edits. At the beginning of each episode, they have the "Dolby Surround Where Available" bug in the lower right corner, which is unacceptable to me. This just makes it look like they recorded it off TV.

If you're not a big stickler for quality, then this set is for you - the price is just amazing, and most people won't care about the lower bitrate or encoding method. Videophiles, however, should probably steer clear and stick with the ADV sets, or wait until a new set is released with higher quality.

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Team Free Wolf?

Seriously?

If that catches on, I will randomly maul any TW fans who don't know where it came from.

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There's a guy currently talking shit about me on IO9 because I think everyone is racist all teh time...I told him to get my shit right, or to stop talking about me, and I'd do the same.

However, if he lived on the inside of my head he'd have heard me panic that once Michonne joined the group that Temp-Dog had better keep a look out, because he's disposable now.

I am sad that I am bitter enough for that to flit through my head for even a second, but at least [spoilers redacted].

But I contend life is what made me bitter, and at least I can tell when stuff is crazy talk, instead of following black people around to tell them they're imagining things.

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Arrow casting: David Anders

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Friend sent me this information:

SYFY 20TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL - MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2012 AT 9/8C (2 HRS)
Guest stars : Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Tricia Helfer, Colin Ferguson, Eddie McClintock, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, Christopher Judge and many more.

20th Anniversary Special repeats on:

Dec 10 11:00 PM
Dec 13 08:00 AM
Dec 14 02:00 AM
Dec 14 06:00 PM
Dec 16 09:00 AM
Dec 16 11:30 PM
Dec 19 01:30 AM

It will be nice to see Ben Browder and Claudia Black together again on Sciffy. (How can it be 20 years when they've only been SyFy for uhhh, alot less than 20?)

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I think it's the 20th anniversary of SciFi Channel, not the individual shows.

And how hypocritical of SciFi to showcase the Farscape cast, given how poorly they treated the show at the end.

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That's what I meant - they aren't SciFi anymore - they are Syfy.

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Alan Sepinwall has a history of how LOST got made: [link]

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Aw, there's a lot of cool stuff in there. I may have to get that book.

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