View Full Version : Angel (Season 3) Box Set For £27.99
Apocalypse
03-03-2003, 6:58 PM
Well that's what I paid for it and it arrived today, it's the usual booklet type set and it's in widescreen happily. For £27.99 I'm more than happy with it :clap:
P.S- Before anyone asks where you too can get it for this price, there was a glitch on a well known retailer's site as they had the VHS price on the DVD section, they of course had to honour the price. I believe there were quite a few from this forum who took advantage of the hiccup :devil:
Phil
encaser
03-03-2003, 9:56 PM
Got mine today too. I made a thread in special offers about the deal which some on here proffered from but on a quick search it seems to have been deleted:confused: Still, I found it on dvdforums anyway so who ever found it there was the real good sort.
Nice to actually get a decent purchase straight off, instead of waiting months to get what it could of gone for in the first place.
Oh well, only 917 minutes of viewing to trawl through:smashin: :clap:
Mine has been posted apparently... still waiting.... Cornish postmen! :rolleyes:
Thanks again encaser! :smashin:
yakko
03-03-2003, 11:07 PM
Yes mine arrived today also, very well packaged too, with a strange cardboardy lattice within the outer box. Now if only Buffy season six was coming out at this price!
Yakko
Is it the same packaging as all the others?
encaser
04-03-2003, 12:18 AM
The actual set is the same style of packaging - if that's what you meant Lex. You'll need someone in to accept it as Choices are using Parcel Force.
Sorry , I didn't mean the actual DVD's that's identical to earlier seasons. No I meant the packing around that for transit. Very secure.
Yakko
daftmole
05-03-2003, 2:15 PM
After watching three episodes of this fantastic series, I just wanted to see if other people agree that the picture is fantastic, especially since this is a TV program! The sound isn't bad either!
Timmy B
05-03-2003, 3:04 PM
I thought the season 2 picture quality was great, very film like - I can't wait to see what season 3 is like.
Anyone who waits for the r1 must be mad imho.
I am still half way through season two - gonna be a while til I get to season three...
Are there any Buffy/Angel crossovers in Angel seasons 2/3? (no spoilers please).
RL123
06-03-2003, 12:26 AM
Been watching series 3 since yesterday...its absolutely excellent IMO :)
I watched it on Sky but they butchered it with adverts, spoilers and P and S :mad:
One of the best series of any show I have ever seen though and it really is something special to watch
Yes the pic quality is VERY good...on a par with 24 and the majority of major films IMO
lex there is a crossover in s2 I think (not certain though) but none in s3
Right, going back to watch more :)
Timmy B
06-03-2003, 2:41 AM
A lot of people think angel and buffy is pan and scan on sky - it isn't, the sides are cropped.
Apocalypse
06-03-2003, 4:58 AM
Originally posted by Lex
I am still half way through season two - gonna be a while til I get to season three...
Are there any Buffy/Angel crossovers in Angel seasons 2/3? (no spoilers please).
Season 2 of Angel has 2 appearances from a Buffy regular and one appearance of a Buffy not so regular. There is another character from BTVS who appears in about 3 episodes but you should be there now if you are half way through.
Season 3 only mentions folk from Sunnydale as Warner Bros were funny about UPN programmes being plugged, D Greenwalt actually talks about this in the interviews on the season 3 boxset.
Hope that is spoiler free enough :)
Edit - There are also 2 episodes containing a character that appeared in seasons 2 & 3 of BTVS in season 2 of Angel. LOL, I bet you're confused now :suicide:
James45
06-03-2003, 2:45 PM
Originally posted by Timmy B
A lot of people think angel and buffy is pan and scan on sky - it isn't, the sides are cropped.
you've lost me there, cropping the sides is exactly what happens in the pan and scan process.
Timmy B
06-03-2003, 5:58 PM
Pan & Scan overlays a 4:3 rectangle on the widescreen image. The operator of the equipment moves the rectangle left & right using the machine's controls. Whatever is inside the 4:3 overlay is then used. Anything that falls outside of the 4:3 overlay is discarded. A huge benefit to Pan & Scan is that the overlay can continuously be moved by the operator, which means there's much fewer occasions where an important detail in the scene needs to be cropped.
Both angel and buffy on sky are not pan and scan, the image has been centre cropped. P&S would make it alot better, but obviously 16:9 would be best.
Originally posted by James45
you've lost me there, cropping the sides is exactly what happens in the pan and scan process.
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JK :rotfl: