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Star Wars Episode I DVD Review

Posted by michael on from the love-the-smell-of-lightsabers-in-the-morning dept.

dswensen writes: "Theforce.net has an in-depth review of the forthcoming Star Wars: Episode I DVD (due for release October 16th). Looking at all the great features packed into this DVD, I'm glad Lucas decided not to just toss off a cheap version a year ago. Love it or hate it, it looks like they really pulled out all the stops." Plus Ant points out that there is some teaser movie available for Star Wars Galaxies, the upcoming massively multiplayer game.

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  1. Another Review by krugdm · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you're looking for another review that doesn't involve Force.net drool, here's one from The Digital Bits which has a lot of the same information, but some different criticisms.

  2. A much simpler review by Junks+Jerzey · · Score: 4, Informative

    I mean this in all honesty:

    1. Phantom Menace was a poor to mediocre movie no matter what your point of view, unless you saw it when you were 7 without seeing the original movies. It does not deserve to be talked about any more that Waterworld does.

    2. DVD extras cannot change #1.

  3. Re:What's an RCE disc? by Jungleland · · Score: 2, Informative

    Region Code Enhanced. It basically tells the player that it is region 0 disk(so the player switches to region 0), then during the menu sequence checks that the player is region 1. The Idea being that only region 1 locked players will be able to play. I have heard that a lot of mods get around this, mine for example wont change to Region 0, so in theory it should work. All of the RCE disks so far have been crap so I havent tested this so far.

  4. Re:Okay, but.... by Rogerborg · · Score: 3, Informative
    • We still haven't seen the original trilogy that didn't suck on DVD, and there is no plan to release it

    ...until after episodes 2 & 3 are out. Wierdly, Amazon has the DVD of Episode 4 listed, complete with ASIN number.

    But sure, let's have it, George. Heck, I'd settle for being able to get pristine VHS tapes of the unbutchered versions.

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  5. Much better review at DVDFILE.com by Malc · · Score: 4, Informative

    This review is dreadful. Are the reviewers suffering from tunnel vision? Did they have their Lucas goggles on? Were they paid by Lucas? It's a bit of a brown-noser and the tone suggests to me that even if the quality of DVD had been really crap, they would still have written good things about it.

    I prefer the review at dvdfile.com. When they discuss the transfer to DVD, you can't but help feel that they know what they're talking about. Perhaps I also share the same opinion as the reviewer: this wasn't a great great film, but we all liked the *idea* of a Star Wars film. The review is here: http://www.dvdfile.com/software/review/dvd-video_4 /starwars_episode_i.html.

  6. dvd? passe. by Lumpy · · Score: 3, Informative

    I had it on Laserdisc for almost a year now.
    No region encoding, No content controls.
    Same resolution you have on your DVD and in Dolby 5.1

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