Re: [OT] Listen up you apes!

Wait...did you say Reboot?

Really?  On DVD?

Donald Hosford

Chan Faunce wrote:

> If you haven't heard, the first Roughnecks: Starship Troopers
Chronicles
> DVD and video is out. Just thought I'd give a quick note and review.
>
> Episodes covered:
>    Freefall
>    Plasma Bugs Of Navarone
>    Handle With Care
>    Basic Training
>    Deep Trouble
>
> The DVD does not have 5 separate episodes, instead they have been
> spliced together to create a 97 minute movie - "The Pluto Campaign".
It
> doesn't appear that any footage was dropped.
>
> Image quality is outstanding. I have a first generation SLP tape made
> off Sci-Fi to compare it to and it's much sharper. The upside is that
> you can see a lot of little details that you might have missed. The
> downside is that a couple of "glitches" that you might have missed
jump
> off the screen at you (especially the first 2 episodes). Notably -
> broken character movement, where it looks like frames dropped out
> producing gaps in the motion, and a "pulsing" of distant laser fire
> where the beam is not thick enough to render entirely and appears as a
> series of dashes.
>
> Features:
>    Shots of pre-production artwork and character sketches.
Unfortunately
> they are fairly small on screen and my "Zoom" feature doesn't work
here
> (unlike Reboot DVD where I could blow up the picture and see the
> details).
>    5.1 Dolby Digital,, 2-Channel Dolby
>    Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean,
> Thai
>
> Can't wait for the next one.
>
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> Channing C. Faunce
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