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For all those folks who ordered the last batch, now there are some more to come!
http://www.bbcworldwide.com/vet/specialinterests/default.asp
The Essential Oscar Wilde is £40 (plus £1.50 for shipping) and contains three classic adaptations of An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan and a Timewatch documentary on Wilde himself.
Excellent stuff!
http://tf.dvdplanet.com/productimages/thumbnail/24760.jpg
Been out for a few months in the States now and also includes the Jeremy Brett, Dorian Gray. Available for as little as $24. £40 is a bit steep but then that’s the BBC for you.
BTW - Love how the BBC page has misspelled "int(e)rest"
Ah, but there's a documentary included with this set that isn't in the other, and it's a case of pure PAL, instead of PAL-NTSC-PAL.
And that’s worth a £40 (including the cost of buying the Special Interests Dorian seperately) premium is it?
Frankly it’s a ****-poor choice to follow their first set of releases with this. The fact they’ve released Dorian seperately just goes to show that there’s no overall plan for these titles and in addition, to release titles that are already available (and much cheaper) in other regions surely defeats the whole point of SI. They’re sitting on thousands of hours of desirable material and the best they can do is to (more or less) copy a region one release??!
No - this isn't in place of the upcoming titles. They simply decided to do a slightly different UK version of the boxset as well as the titles already in planning.
I'm buying it, if for no better reason than to help fund future releases.
And I already got the other three. ;)
BTW, in the Radio Times, there's a special offer where you can order The Picture of Dorian Gray in addition to the boxset for £10, so slightly less painfully awful than it could have been.
Narshty I admire your dedication to the cause but I don’t think they deserve your patronage. The lack of any news on new releases, cock-ups over booklets on the first set, high prices, continually delayed release of wave 1 and this latest half-assed release does not bode well IMHO.
We’d be much better off petitioning them to let the BFI have free access.
Even with the generous :oh-hum: RT offer, a £30+ excess for a doco and pure PAL is too much.
I too am disappointed. We've already had one Wilde adaptation, why more so soon? They should go across a variety of genres first. What about some rare archive comedy or sci-fi such as Quatermass?
http://www.bbcworldwide.com/vet/specialinterests/default.asp
The Essential Oscar Wilde is £40 (plus £1.50 for shipping) and contains three classic adaptations of An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan and a Timewatch documentary on Wilde himself.
Excellent stuff!
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http://tf.dvdplanet.com/productimages/thumbnail/24760.jpg
Been out for a few months in the States now and also includes the Jeremy Brett, Dorian Gray. Available for as little as $24. £40 is a bit steep but then that’s the BBC for you.
BTW - Love how the BBC page has misspelled "int(e)rest"
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Ah, but there's a documentary included with this set that isn't in the other, and it's a case of pure PAL, instead of PAL-NTSC-PAL.
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And that’s worth a £40 (including the cost of buying the Special Interests Dorian seperately) premium is it?
Frankly it’s a ****-poor choice to follow their first set of releases with this. The fact they’ve released Dorian seperately just goes to show that there’s no overall plan for these titles and in addition, to release titles that are already available (and much cheaper) in other regions surely defeats the whole point of SI. They’re sitting on thousands of hours of desirable material and the best they can do is to (more or less) copy a region one release??!
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No - this isn't in place of the upcoming titles. They simply decided to do a slightly different UK version of the boxset as well as the titles already in planning.
I'm buying it, if for no better reason than to help fund future releases.
And I already got the other three. ;)
BTW, in the Radio Times, there's a special offer where you can order The Picture of Dorian Gray in addition to the boxset for £10, so slightly less painfully awful than it could have been.
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Narshty I admire your dedication to the cause but I don’t think they deserve your patronage. The lack of any news on new releases, cock-ups over booklets on the first set, high prices, continually delayed release of wave 1 and this latest half-assed release does not bode well IMHO.
We’d be much better off petitioning them to let the BFI have free access.
Even with the generous :oh-hum: RT offer, a £30+ excess for a doco and pure PAL is too much.
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I too am disappointed. We've already had one Wilde adaptation, why more so soon? They should go across a variety of genres first. What about some rare archive comedy or sci-fi such as Quatermass?
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