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post #451 of 829
1/28/12 at 3:12pm
Hi Scott,

You bring up great points. I had two discs go bad on me in the whole collection. The one from 1897 April 21 Quentin confronts Laura. 1968 Vicky saves Barnabas as she finds him in the woods near death.

I repurchased both. I am calling MPI on the Laura one because it was worse then the first disc which had not gone bad for several viewings. I will not call them however for awhile. I watch all of Laura in 1967 before going into her storyline in 1897 which I will not view until spring.

I am also glad i hear the movies will be out but wish it could be this year.
FYI i purchased the replacement discs not from MPI.

Fox backs up their goods from where ever you buy it. I hope MPI will too.
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post #452 of 829
1/28/12 at 3:57pm
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Originally Posted by Mark Collins View Post

Hi Scott,
You bring up great points. I had two discs go bad on me in the whole collection. The one from 1897 April 21 Quentin confronts Laura. 1968 Vicky saves Barnabas as she finds him in the woods near death.
I repurchased both. I am calling MPI on the Laura one because it was worse then the first disc which had not gone bad for several viewings. I will not call them however for awhile. I watch all of Laura in 1967 before going into her storyline in 1897 which I will not view until spring.
I am also glad i hear the movies will be out but wish it could be this year.
FYI i purchased the replacement discs not from MPI.
Fox backs up their goods from where ever you buy it. I hope MPI will too.

I would suggest calling about replacement disks and not going through email. I had a bad disk on set 2 that wouldn't play at all. I tried examining it on the computer and it couldn't even identify that it had any content at all. I sent multiple emails to MPI and never received a single reply. I think they just hoped i would go away. Talking in person will make that more difficult.

In my case, I had purchased it from Amazon and so I sent an email to their customer service, even though i was a few months past any possible return. They sent out a new set immediately without even waiting for my bad set to be received back. I only missed a few days in my viewing as a result.
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post #453 of 829
1/28/12 at 4:15pm

I agree with those who pointed out the DVD collection cases are nice. And they are IMO, I really hope the box set isn't cheap packaging because have The Beginning collections and the reg sets up to VOL 4 and they are all the nice more compact cases. ANd each one is in mint condition. I listed them all on amazon as a third party seller. Although not sure if I will get any bites on them. I do have 100% feedback, but I may need to drop some of them in price more so. (currently each VOL is the lowest price for used) 

 

 

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post #454 of 829
1/29/12 at 7:31pm
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Originally Posted by Powell&Pressburger View Post

I agree with those who pointed out the DVD collection cases are nice. And they are IMO, I really hope the box set isn't cheap packaging because have The Beginning collections and the reg sets up to VOL 4 and they are all the nice more compact cases. ANd each one is in mint condition. I listed them all on amazon as a third party seller. Although not sure if I will get any bites on them. I do have 100% feedback, but I may need to drop some of them in price more so. (currently each VOL is the lowest price for used) 


Dark Shadows is too expensive for my budget. I will have to wait a few years for it too come down in price to meet my budget requirements
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post #455 of 829
1/29/12 at 7:58pm

I just don't know about getting this. I don't know if I could ever finish it. I just had a marathon of Mary Tyler Moore episodes, and it almost killed me! By the end of the series, I was getting tired of it...and that was just 168 episodes. I couldn't imagine getting through over a thousand of them.

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post #456 of 829
1/29/12 at 9:28pm
Eric, if more people applied your logic, which I agree with, sales of almost all complete series DVD sets would plummet. Some I am a few episodes into, some half, some almost but never finished, and some are still in shrink wrap.
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post #457 of 829
1/30/12 at 8:56am
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We watched a handful of episodes over the weekend (the last two from Collection 7 and the first few from Collection 8). The bonus interview from DVD Collection 7, disc 4 was entertaining. It featured Ben Martin, and he discussed photographing Kathryn Leigh Scott early on in her career (before Dark Shadows). As fans of the show know, Ben Martin is Kathryn Leigh Scott's current husband. They jointly opened up Pomegranate Press several years ago.

We're right at the point when Adam has come to life, has destroyed Dr. Lang's lab, and has now been taken to the Old House to be supervised by Willie. Cassandra has lifted the spell on David, so he can now speak. And Sarah Johnson has just had the dream. I think David will get it next, since he was the one leading Sarah to the room with the doors in her dream. N.B.: Clarice Blackburn (Sarah Johnson) is one of my favorite actresses from this series. I think she's very solid, and I can easily see her having portrayed a plethora of roles (particularly those with a theatrical bent) apart from Dark Shadows.

FWIW: I was searching for one of my children's favorite television shows (House Of Anubis) by title last night, in order to continue to DVR the second season of that series. When I got to "House Of ...," House Of Dark Shadows was one of the other entries I retrieved. For those who may want to DVR or tape, it is being aired Tuesday, but I can't recall which channel.
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post #458 of 829
1/30/12 at 9:53am
House of Dark Shadows airs Tuesday 1-31-12 at 10:00pm (Eastern time) on Turner Classic Movies.
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post #459 of 829
1/30/12 at 11:29am
Thread Starter 
^^^

Thanks for posting the channel and time. smile.gif
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post #460 of 829
1/30/12 at 4:10pm
Thanks Scott for the TCM airing of the moives. I only wish when they air the movie that it would be in letter box which it never is. Here is the latest on the dvds http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Dark-Shadows-The-Complete-Original-Series/16462

I have only one concern for those who wait to buy at a cheaper price. The dvds are listed limited edition. How fast will these sell???
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post #461 of 829
1/30/12 at 5:04pm

I was just wondering if this is something that wouldn't get old quickly. i have seen some episodes on Sci-Fi and liked the show, but over a thousand episodes is a lot.

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post #462 of 829
1/30/12 at 8:01pm
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Originally Posted by Mark Collins View Post

Thanks Scott for the TCM airing of the moives. I only wish when they air the movie that it would be in letter box which it never is. Here is the latest on the dvds http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Dark-Shadows-The-Complete-Original-Series/16462
I have only one concern for those who wait to buy at a cheaper price. The dvds are listed limited edition. How fast will these sell???

Mark,

Thanks for the link. As to your question, I don't know, but I am surely going to try to pick them up before they're gone. smile.gif
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post #463 of 829
1/31/12 at 12:13pm

More Details listed on Amazon.com

 

This limited edition boxed set contains every eerie episode of the original Gothic suspense series DARK SHADOWS (1966-1971) plus a wealth of bonus interviews with the stars and creative members that made the supernatural thriller a cult favorite and an enduring television classic.
Box Features:
131 DVDs with all 1,225 Complete Episodes
Commemorative large Coffin package (housing 22 amarays)
Deluxe booklet with episode summaries & photographs
Special Bloopers, Treasures & Behind The Scenes DVD s
Over 120 Bonus Cast & Crew Video Interviews
Autographed Postcard by Jonathan Frid (Barnabas Collins)
Limited Numbered Edition
Other features include nickel hinges, black ribbon to hold the lid when open, matte and foil coating
Box dimensions: (Coffin), 13 ½ L x 11 ¼ W (at widest) x 5 ¾ D.
Shipping carton dimensions, 16.5" x 8.5" x 14"
Weight Shipping carton with contents - 15.5lbs

 

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post #464 of 829
1/31/12 at 12:26pm
Thread Starter 
Powell,

Thanks. This feature: "Special Bloopers, Treasures & Behind The Scenes DVDs" sounds like the three DVDs that I bought separately in addition to the entire series. If the material is identical, then there is a lot of information and special features included with these (what appear to be) two or three DVDs of material.

The individual DVD Collections contain the postcards, and I have to believe that the "Over 120 Bonus Cast & Crew Video Interviews" are in large part the same ones that are included in the Blue/Black (Beginning Series) and Red/Black (Original Series) DVDs.

I wonder if the release of this boxed set will have any effect on the price of the individual volumes that many people have purchased over the years? I would think that MPI might consider lowering their price, but I don't know how that aspect of distribution will work in this case.
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post #465 of 829
1/31/12 at 6:10pm
A missed opportunity, if it still exists (and could be cleared for release) would be the kinescope for the 1957 GOODYEAR PLAYHOUSE episode "The House" by Art Wallace - which he redeveloped for DARK SHADOWS.
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post #466 of 829
1/31/12 at 8:50pm
Haven't seen House since I watched it in the theater. Of course, I remembered that characters had changed (Barnabas was more . . . thirsty), but I was delighted to find in watching this tonight that David was the same obnoxious little snot he was in the series.

PatH

P. S. The coffin box looks impressive, but still no sale. 131 disks is too many even in a shoebox size. Put it on Blu-Ray and I'll buy a player for that alone. The disk savings in space would be considerable even at a $600 (or more) price tag.
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post #467 of 829
2/1/12 at 12:21am
This set is deadly. Even the idea of this set is deadly. It is doubtful I would ever watch all the episodes. I already spent more than the set would cost on just the Barnabus episodes. And yet here I am wanting to buy it, just because the idea of it is so insanely great.
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post #468 of 829
2/1/12 at 5:32am
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Put it on Blu-Ray and I'll buy a player for that alone. The disk savings in space would be considerable even at a $600 (or more) price tag.

Don't hold your breath, though. Since there's not really anything to gain picture-quality wise (just space saving), I highly doubt there'd be a Blu-Ray release of this, or any other TV series that's standard-definition only. The more savvy amongst us would know what to expect, but the general public (or at least, the studios' idea of what the general public would think) would probably be expecting the episodes to be in high-def if it's a Blu-Ray. I don't think the idea of Blu-Ray as a space-saving alternative for the same video quality as regular DVDs has been planted in the general public's mind.
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post #469 of 829
2/1/12 at 2:35pm
I wish they would release it in Divx, then, or some such compressed format. It's not like we're dealing with great quality here to begin with. And Divx would allow of the kind of convenience PatH is talking about.
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post #470 of 829
2/1/12 at 2:51pm
Funny how you brought up DIVX as a good encoding hardware. I thought it was a poor man's MPEG.
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post #471 of 829
2/1/12 at 4:31pm
Hi DS Fans,

I phoned MPI about Dark Shadows going blue in 2012. I did this after Scott and I were told by various fans about the coffin deal for the entire series.

I spoke with them around October 2011. The response from MPI was DS would never be made by MPI in HD. Never say Never sure this is true. I am only stateing what a lady at MPI who handles DS told me on the phone. I have phoned her before on new release's cd's etc and she has always given me the correct info.
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post #472 of 829
2/1/12 at 5:13pm
As I said in one of my earlier posts regarding DS on Blu, I live in hope. But, as Andy said above, I'm not holding my breath. His points about public expectation of Blu meaning HD are valid. Most people don't accept that the quality of anything can only be enhanced so far and, as the saying goes, you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear--even a much loved one.

Then, too, as I said much earlier, MPI probably doesn't want to kill the DS goose by releasing at whatever price a set which would make further purchases unnecessary--or do anything which might affect the forthcoming DS film.

PatH
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post #473 of 829
2/1/12 at 5:15pm
I have transferred a lot of DVDs I own to Divx simply for convenience. I can put a complete series of most shows on a 64GB data stick, and my data player does a decent job of upscaling on my 42-inch.
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post #474 of 829
2/1/12 at 5:46pm
The reason I brought up Divx was because I was referring to the botched encoding job of S7 of AITF and BCI's Password DVD sets. Both were also videotape-originated shows, and in the case of those two DVD sets, they didn't have the smooth live look and feel of a videotaped program. The motion felt jerky and choppy.

Someone suspected that when it came to those two particular DVD sets, it was a case of someone having a fondness for Divx, and then he referred to it as a "poor man's MPEG".
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post #475 of 829
2/1/12 at 5:58pm
If you put junk in, you get junk out, whether it's Divx, MPEG-2 or 1080.
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post #476 of 829
2/1/12 at 6:33pm
If you missed House of Dark Shadows (and are a Comcast subscriber) it and Night of Dark Shadows are available in the OnDemand section for $2.99 each. Not sure if they are available from other providers.
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post #477 of 829
2/2/12 at 4:51am
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Originally Posted by Statskeeper View Post

If you missed House of Dark Shadows (and are a Comcast subscriber) it and Night of Dark Shadows are available in the OnDemand section for $2.99 each. Not sure if they are available from other providers.

It's a available from Amazon ondemand video also.
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post #478 of 829
2/4/12 at 7:04am
I have the enire series plus the 2 movies and the 1990 series as well. I wonder how well the entire set will do? I feel that the people who grew up with this show and wanted it, already have it. It is a major expense to acquire the whole show. If I put out all that money out on individual sets, I can't imagine what would motivate to buy this set. Am I supposed to believe that some fans have been holding out not purchasing it so far, because they were waiting for an entire release. I hope it does well but I don't see it.
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post #479 of 829
2/6/12 at 4:24pm
Thread Starter 
Mark,

We had some great Dark Shadows viewing this weekend. First, my eldest daughter and I watched House Of Dark Shadows. It was quite a hoot seeing 'Jason McGuire' as a sheriff -- minus the accent, of course. It had been quite some time since I had last seen this film. I am anxiously awaiting the release of this one and Night Of Dark Shadows soon. After this, we watched about a half dozen or so episodes of the original series.

We're up through episode #497 at this point. The two major story lines are the Adam arc and the Dream Curse. Both are very strong, and quite enjoyable. I haven't looked ahead to the second, third, or fourth discs from DVD Collection 8 yet, but I am really hoping that Robert Rodan (Adam) is included as one of the bonus interviews. I recall having seen an interview of his on the VHS tapes, so I'm fairly certain that it will be included somewhere on the DVDs (either in Collection 8 or Collection 9).

Do you happen to know if the released version (DVD) of Night Of Dark Shadows (1971) will include the approximately thirty-five minutes of cut footage? Even though it's probably still lacking audio, I would love to have the visual footage included as a special feature.
Edited by Ockeghem - 2/6/12 at 5:36pm
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post #480 of 829
2/7/12 at 6:37am
Thread Starter 
Dark Shadows fans,

Here is some recent information on items relating to Dark Shadows (from Dark Shadows Journal Online).

http://www.collinwood.net - Dark Shadows Journal Online

Blog Updates

New this week is an exclusive interview with Kathryn Leigh Scott (Maggie), discussing filming her cameo for the new Dark Shadows feature film, plus nostalgic commentary from Kathleen Cody (Hallie Stokes) and all the latest news. Pay a visit at:

http://darkshadowsnews.blogspot.com

New Dark Shadows Novel Announced

Tor Books have announced that they will be publishing Angelique actress Lara Parker's new Dark Shadows novel Curse of the Full Moon on September 25. Speaking at the West Hollywood Book Fair back in October, Lara revealed: "It's about the werewolf [Quentin] and his painting... It's sort of like the picture of Dorian Gray and based on that mythology. He turns into the werewolf at the full moon because he's lost his painting." To pre-order Curse of the Full Moon, visit this link:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/076536915X/darkshadowsjourn
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