DVD Magazines

[PoochJD]

A quick question this:

Which is the worst British DVD magazine, devoted solely to DVD's, not films or home-cinema? The award has to go to "DVD Monthly". Why?

1) For releasing a free DVD of "The Twilight Zone" last issue (#4) which didn't run, and
2) was authored by a company who called the great man himself Rod Sterling, rather than Serling, PLUS
3) they labelled the VCD disc incorrectly, as a DVD! And then,
4) the authoring house, labelled the disc on the menu screen as being a "Special Addition disc"!

You want more?! Okay then!

5) Issue 5: Letter's page has a glowing review from a young woman, who thanks the magazine for being more pro-women than most other DVD magazines. The response?

6) the editor helps author a ten-page article in the very same issue on the Top 10 Pairs Of (Womens) Tits in DVD Films!

Tragic! Truly tragic!

Anyone else care to come up with any more way-out reasons for any bad magazines, in comparison to those I've listed already?!

You know the drill, folks....

Pooch.

1) they did not label it as a dvd, look closely and you will see.

[PoochJD]

Mickrick and CW2000,

I accept that I made an error in my original posting, r.e. the VCD supplied with "DVD Monthly".

Now, anyone else care to add anything as to which of the many DVD magazines available, are not that good? After all, that was what I was asking.

Pooch.

[mickrick]

Sorry Poochie, my original reply was to SW2000 and I was backing you up about DVD Monthly. I think that most, if not all, of the current DVD mags are pretty *rap at the minute, it's all down to the "what else can you say about DVD?" factor.

They all seem to be reviewing the same discs and equipment. I buy Total DVD and DVD R*v*ew and there's honestly not much to seperate them. I prefer Total DVD mainly because of the Data Pit section and because it treats it's readers as adults, not having to resort to "funny" captions for it's screen shots and without sarcastic answers to readers' letters.

What DVD and DVD Monthly are without doubt the worst, though.

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[mickrick]

They did NOT label it as a vcd, nor did it state anywhere in the magazine that it was a vcd. They used the DVD logo both on the cover and spine of the disc and this could be construed as false advertising. They did not state that it was a "free cd", as they have done in the latest issue; they called it a "free disc". The magazine name is DVD MONTHLY and so it is reasonable to expect any "free disc to be a dvd", unless stated otherwise quite legibly and in a prominent position. The reply I got to my complaint to them was "we wanted a disc that could be played by computer users as well". I don't think there are many computer users with no dvd rom drive who would buy a dvd magazine for a free coverdisc believing it would play in a cdrom drive, do you?
I personally believe it was a blatant attempt to con customers, myself included. Have a look at the letters page in the latest issue and you'll see that it clearly backfired on them.
The disc was, IMHO, the most pants "free" item I've ever bought.

I must leave it there, I've been trying to figure out why my laserdiscs won't play in my cdrom drive. There MUST be a way...

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You tried and failed miserably. the lesson is - Never Try. Here endeth the lesson.

Originally posted by mickrick:
They did NOT label it as a vcd, nor did it state anywhere in the magazine that it was a vcd. They used the DVD logo both on the cover and spine of the disc and this could be construed as false advertising

Look closer, the so called DVD logos are actually DVD Monthly logos. The DVD logo on the front, back and spine all have Monthly in small letters under them. So not a DVD logo.

The way the have labelled it does at no point claim to be a DVD, ie. "This Disc is presented free with issue 4 of DVD Monthly"

Even in the magazine it does not claim to be a DVD.

[mickrick]

Sorry CW, but your defense of this offending article seems VERY suspect.

Do you work for, or are you related to someone who works for, DVD Monthly? Or maybe you authored the disc.

That's it! You sat at home and recorded an old Twilight Zone you taped in 1982, using a badly positioned inside arial, or even a wire coathanger shoved into the arial socket on your Alba vcr, on a Bush videotape, onto your pc, compressed it as much as possible, and then used Nero to make a vcd of it, put fingerprints all over the disc and then sent it away for duplication, with orders not to clean the fingerprints off.

It's all starting to make sense now...

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You tried and failed miserably. the lesson is - Never Try. Here endeth the lesson.