Lexx Season 1: Released October 8th (1 Viewer)

[Mark Talmadge]

Echo Bridge Home Entertainment sucks. I fired off an email to Gord Lacey and he responded that Echo Bridge Home Entertainment had asked TV Shows on DVD not to report on their releases.

Say what?

EBHE asked for the media to not report on their releases? If you ask me, you would think that a company who releases merchandise would want to see it sell, that's what advertisement is. It's sad that a studio who releases such an obscure TV shows doesn't want anyone announcing its release.

Season 1 contains all four of the movies that served as the unofficial pilot films for the television series. Season1 consists of all four movies packages together for around $40-50.

Thanks for the reply, Gord. It helps to answer why it wasn't reported.

 

[Jeff Ulmer]

Aside from wondering why some of these companies shy away from publicity (which in some cases is because their product is junk), as a big Lexx fan who already owns the whole series on DVD, I am interested in whether this is just a rehash of the previous releases, or whether anything has been done to improve the video quality. It sounds like there won't be any reviews of this set other than from customers. I worship his shadow.

Edit to say that if the cover art is any indication of the attention this set is getting, we're off to a bad start given that Xenia Seeberg is the featured actor and she doesn't even show up until season two... where is an assassin for the divine order when you need one?

 

[Mark Talmadge]

:lols:

I don't know why they have the set labeled as Season one either. They were a series of movies originally intended for just home video. The creation and production of a television series didn't come around until much later. I think Echo Bridge is hopiing that fans will buy the "Season 1" set thinking that it's the television series when its not.

Also, the price they're asking for the "first season" set is out of bounds. You can buy the DVD movies separately for probably cheaper ... if you can find them.

 

[AndyMcKinney]

Until this set was announced, all four of the TV movies were long OOP in R1 and (except "Eating Pattern") had been selling for what I consider crazy money ($25 each or $75-100 for all four), so $25.00 shipped (Deep Discount) isn't bad at all (in fact, that's about what the set of all four Koch titles were going for just before they went OOP.

I finally gave up a year or so back and bought the R2s (which, IMO, had better extras anyway, ported over from the old PAL VHS releases).

The prices might be coming down NOW, though, since the "season set" has been announced, which means they're now back "in-print".

I only hope the picture quality is improved on these, as well as on any upcoming season 2 releases. Never read any reviews of the telemovies, but the reviews I saw of season 2 said the picture quality was pretty bad. Pic quality of my R2-PAL season 2s seems okay, but the authoring seems a bit shoddy, as there's way too much stuttering in certain episodes (and this is in a new DVD player, not some outdated one).

 

[Jeff Ulmer]

Even before Lexx went OOP it was selling for "crazy" money - I know, I bought it.

All of the seasons have a lot of jitter in the CGI, that MAY be inherent in the production (I hope not). Image quality isn't that bad (I've seen a lot worse), just nowhere near what we'd like to see in terms of quality.

Given the pricing and the lack of any sort of fanfare for this set I'm betting these are simply the same masters rehashed, but would love to be proven wrong.

Mantrid drone anyone?

 

[AndyMcKinney]

No, the jittering/stuttering I'm experiencing is in the live-action sections, too. I just think that particular disc(s) in that R2 set must just be poorly authored.

 

[AndyMcKinney]

So, did anybody here buy this set? Would love to see a review (haven't found any "real" reviews yet. The ones on Amazon appear just to be reviews of someone who saw the episodes elsewhere, not anything relating to picture quality, authoring, extras, edits, etc.).