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Summary: Great fun!
Review: I delayed ordering this set because of a couple of negative comments from others who had purchased it and complained about poor picture quality. I never once was distracted by scratches, faded frames or other imperfections in the DVD release. I have purchased the other two collections (Set Two and the Gift Set) and will be quite satisfied if they are of like quality. If you are unfamiliar with the Miss Marple series starring Joan Hickson this is a wonderful introduction. Sleeping Murder, A Caribbean Mystery and 4:50 from Paddington are great fun for Marple fans.
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Summary: Christie Fan-Upset by Grainy picture
Review: I did not heed the warning of the grainy look of the dvds that so many had perfectly described. I have seen these previously but,I still wanted them for my library. The price of these dvds warranted a much better quality. I suggest you go to your lending library to take a look at the quality before you decide to purchase.
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Summary: Marple Triumphant
Review: I don't see how anyone can complain about the visuals: you can almost read the labels on the ties and shop for the wallpapers in these transfers....played on a cheap DVD, small cables, etc. The stories are superb, and the only problem is keeping my wife from watching them every night over and over. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Agatha Christie stories come to life !
Review: I have purchased this movie collection because of my love of Agatha Christie's Books and let me just say,it was worth every penny!I absolutely love this dvd collection and if you have not seen it buy it especially if you are a Miss Jane Marple Fan.
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Summary: Thumbs down on editing!
Review: I have to agree with reviewer John Prentice's attitude on editing. I hate it! I have some old VHS tapes that I made from PBS when they first aired Miss Marple. They were my old friends. Then when A&E started showing the series, you could tell that they had been cut. Bummer! Sometimes the scenes that were cut were important to the continuity of the plot. Another one that was edited that really griped me was ANNE OF GREEN GABLES. I ask WHY????
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Summary: I'm perplexed
Review: I read the first two reviews posted for this title and was extremely surprised. I consider myself to be a fairly fussy consumer and I think my eyesight is quite okay, but I wasn't away of any visual deficiencies in this release. Maybe quality control could be an issue, but that seems unlikely. I often rely on user reviews to help me decide whether to buy a DVD. I was so glad to see these appear that I went ahead and preordered them sight unseen, and I wasn't at all disappointed with the quality. I'm not saying that the other reviewers are wrong, but I definitely did not share their experience. Here's hoping more reviews will clarify this situation.
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Summary: agatha christie
Review: I was ready to spend money to replace my personal VSH tapes of these shows with a quality DVD. When, however, I read about the poor transfer quality, I decided not to spend the money. I made a similar decision on the Wives of Henry VIII. It is criminal that these excellent programs can't be properly transferred.
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Summary: I love Miss Marple, but these DVD's don't do her justice..
Review: I watched all the Miss Marple's as my Mother & I are big fans of Agatha Christie's many books. I watched the series when it ran years ago, and was looking forward with great anticiption to the DVD's. I must say this is the worst job of transferring a beautifully produced television series to DVD. There were so many artifacts from cramming everything onto single disks that they are in many cases, completely unviewable. I would recommend renting this set from Netflix or somewhere before purchasing them. This is such a major disappointment. I loved the series and waited with great anticipation for their release, only to discover they're unwatchable.
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Summary: New Miss Marple DVD is a disappointment!
Review: I'd been eagerly waiting for the DVD release of this wonderful series but am now very disappointed. This is the second set of A&E DVDs I've had to return recently because of poor quality. THE 4:50 FROM PADDINGTON DVD is the worst I've seen. It looks like an old and worn out video. It's dirty and the colors are washed out. No restoration work there! SLEEPING MURDER is better but not as good as it could be. Frankly, I didn't even bother to watch the other two shows, I returned the set. I've bought other A&E DVDs made from much older shows, like The Saint, from the sixties, and all 12 episodes are crisp and clear and the color is nice and bright. Also, why did they edit these shows? You lose important information that way, especially in mysteries. It appears that A@E no longer cares about the quality of the products they sell. They should check them before they're made available to the public. Visually they lack the high standards that one expects from DVDs. Hopefully A&E will rectify this in future releases of this set.
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Summary: See my review of each individual Aunt Jane movie
Review: In case it gets cross-posted this is a review of [Agatha Christie Collection 1 - Boxed Set ASIN: 6303111564] This collection contains four Aunt Jane Movies ("Sleeping Murder," "A Caribbean Mystery," "The Mirror Crack'..."). There is no way to rank these movies as to which one is best. They are like shoes; everyone has a different favorite. I did look it up to find that all of Agatha Christie's full Miss Marple novels were made in to movies with Joan Hickson as Miss Jane Marple. And this set has 5. Collection 2 (1986) ASIN: 630340488X, contains 5 more. Then there are three individual films not in the collection boxes. If you do not obtain them all you will be haunted for the rest of your life wondering what you missed.
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