Alliance Atlantis = evil syndicate

[ashinae]

Oh, I SO had to break out this new icon for this.

So I wait an extra three weeks for my season 2 Due South DVD to arrive, so that I can buy it with some of the $250 in credit I have on my account at work, instead of shelling out an additional $75.99+tax for it over at Future Shop. I got very excited when I got the phone call last night that it had finally arrived. Picked it up after school today.

Same fucked-up packaging as the previous set, but no surprise there as Alliance Atlantis don't know what they fuck they're doing. One of the discs had a nice big fingerprint on it. I sighed, grabbed my cleaning solution, cleaned it off. No problems. I did not buy a DVD player for $150 so therefore, it can handle damn near anything on a disc, as well a player should*.

I popped in disc one, and was immediately pleasantly surprised that they cleaned up the picture and sound quality considerably from the season 1 release. I mean, the Mountie's uniform is really RED. REALLY REALLY RED.

Then I realised, "You know? I want to watch 'The Edge'!" So I did a bit of an episode inventory in my head, realised that that particular ep should be on disc two, and popped disc one out of my player. Looked down at the DVD case, knew already that the disc with the picture of Fraser on it was labelled as disc three, and popped in what I assumed would be disc two.

Except that it was also disc one.

Sigh.

For the amount of money that Alliance Atlantis is expecting Canadians to shell out for their discs ($40 SRP for Two Towers, here. God, I wish Warner Bros would take New Line distribution back from Alliance Atlantis [owned by Universal in Canada]), one would THINK they could at least pretend to do a half-assed job with their DVD releases. But nooooooo they're a bunch of fucktards.

Am quite definitely writing to them this time around. So, yes, my least favourite season is coming out next. But if Paul Gross is their lovely poster boy, one would think that perhaps they would want it known that they should clean up their act for his lame-assed effort at writing/directing/producing a television show. And, really, "I Coulda Been a Defendant" IS one of the best episodes that the show did (not surprising, as PG didn't write it) -- and, I mean, really. Brent fucking Carver was in it. He could make the phone book seem like Shakespeare.

And now, I must eat. Spaghetti is good for calming my irritations.

*As a friendly aside to my readership, if you rent a lot of DVDs or buy a lot used, and your player can't handle some scratches (the kind where you have to turn the disc every which way to see all the scratches) you bought a crap-ass player. It's not the DVD's fault -- those things are designed to play through a whole lot of wear and tear. It's just that you, my dear friend, were ripped off. You get what you pay for. You've got to shell out some decent money on a player. And for the love of god, buy a Toshiba or a Panasonic, and do not cry if you're using an XBOX or a PS2 as a DVD player and it doesn't work half the time.

Comments

[pixiecatfish.livejournal.com]

I am most definitely not going to buy the due South DVDs. To me, they are just the latest way that Alliance/Atlantis is showing their contempt for DS fans.

Paying an exorbitant price for shoddy packaging, with a strong likelihood I'll get incorrect or damaged discs, no extras, and they don't include the Pilot with Season 1????

No thank you.

[ashinae.livejournal.com]

My sweet, beloved Shannon -- I wish I had your self-restraint! Sigh.

But my tapes are wearing out. :-/ And there are some episodes I just NEEEEED to watch. Sigh.

*shakes fist impotently at Alliance* Damn youuuu!

[pixiecatfish.livejournal.com]

It's not so much self-restraint as stubborness. They are not going to get one red cent of my money. I'll spend it on the Sports Night DVDs instead.

And save some in the fervent hope that one day Starsky and Hutch will be relased on DVD.

*Also shakes a fist at Alliance. Or one finger, anyway.*

[ashinae.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be surprised if one day S&H is on DVD. A lot of older TV series are being released, so hold onto that hope *g* They'll just have to release it at some point. Maybe find out the parent studio that would release the DVD and write to them, express your interest. Start up some sort of mini letter-writing campaign. And keep an eye on TV Shows on DVD - my one-stop resource for all info for my favourite tv shows on DVD. (Of course, a lot of it is just like being a horrible tease to myself, because I can't afford a lot -- and seeing things like "Xena", where the producers of the show actually put TIME and EFFORT into the releases, and with the second season being SO reasonably priced, it makes me regret getting DS. a LOT)

Aanyway. As you can see, I'm rambling. Am sitting in a lab for school and am very. very. bored as I have nothing to work on. Will leave you alone now... *G*

[trexphile.livejournal.com]

re DVD players: "You get what you pay for" isn't always true. We got fucked over by Sony -- paid $250 for one of their players two years ago and after a year of use, can't get through a whole disk half of the time. It freezes up around chapter 15. Old, rented, brand-new: they all play (or don't play) the same. After some googlin', I discovered that this particular Sony model is a piece of shit, that just about everyone who bought it has the same problems, and Sony will NOT admit their product is defective. They'll fix it -- for the same price as a new unit. So the hub and I have decided to throw this POS out in the yard and buy a cheap model. We'd like to finish a movie up in the living room for a change instead of all crowded on the son's bed, watching the film on the PS2.