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Summary: Anchor Bay's treatment of Davis-Panzer productions
Review: Well here we are with the first season of "Xena: Warrior Princess" coming to DVD via Anchor Bay instead of through the official Davis-Panzer site. This is a good thing. Because from reviews I've read of the Davis-Panzer versions, the video and audio quality is abysmal on them. Davis-Panzer also produced the Highlander Series as well and of course released some of those seasons on DVD (and VHS) through their site as well with equally dismal video/audio.Well rest easy folks. Anchor Bay is fast becoming one of the best DVD Production companies out there. I have recently purchased two Anchor Bay DVD sets and they are suppurb, both in packaging and in presentation. One being the newly remastered "The Complete Musketeers" and Davis-Panzer's "Highlander - The Series: Season One" Both products are excellent. "The Complete Musketeers" was finally given the treatment it deserved with all new correct anamorphic transfers and new documentaries. "Highlander - The Series" DVD set was also great. The newly remixed 5.1 surround is very strong and has wide soundstage. The music envelopes you with the surround speakers and the main action is very strong in the front channels. Picture quality is about good as you would expect from a early-'90s TV show. It is a good clean transfer most of the time with a small amount of grain in the the darker scenes, but those shots usually don't last long. I fully intend to buy the subsequent seasons with Season 2 coming in July. But here we are with the start of the Xena and Hercules sets from Anchor Bay. Xena coming in late-April, and Hercules coming in mid-June. From seeing the quality of the Highlander set, I have no doubt that Anchor Bay will give Xena and Hercules the royal treatment they deserve. The sound should be awesome and the video should be probably better than the Highlander set being slightly newer series. I must admit that I was never a faithful fan to any of these Davis-Panzer shows, but from the episodes I did see of them, I always thought that they had excellent production values with good writing and character development. So I'm excited to begin collecting the Davis-Panzer shows. Besides, they fit my genre interests. So fear not Xena/Hercules fans, these sets should be very good. Anchor Bay is great. Should have some interesting extra features as well.
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Summary: About Darn Time
Review: I have been waiting for it to come out on DVD for, oh I don't know... 3 years? With shows like B5, SG-1 and X-Files releasing onto DVD, it's about time Xena got the same treatment. I am hope we will also see a Hercules set as well?
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Summary: IT'S ABOUT TIME!!!
Review: What took 'em so long?
Season 1 through 3.5 were the best of the Warrior Princess.You also grew with the characters especially Gabrielle.A definate must for Xena fans or even folks who didn't catch on til midway of the series.THIS IS WHERE IT ALL BEGAN!!...
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Summary: Kick A** Xena Action
Review: It is about time this extremely popular show was produced on DVD. I almost broke down and bought the VHS, but am very happy I waited for the DVD. Season One arrived shortly before Christmas and my entire family (who weren't huge fans) know all the episodes by heart. I am expecting Season Two any day along with the final episode. The quality of the DVDs I purchased (on the xenahercules.com site) are excellent. It also included an additional disk with bios, screensavers, etc and the computer game "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" or "Death In Chains". Season One of Hercules, Legendary Journeys is now available as well.
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Summary: Finaly
Review: It's been over seven years since Xena's debut episode aired, and a year and half after the series finale, we are finaly getting a DVD box set of Season One. These DVDs being released by Anchor Bay are suppose to have some special features that are not on the Davis-Panzer versions (which suck in picture quality). I hope that Anchor Bay really does try and upgrade the video and audio to look good on DVD. I was really starting to get depressed seeing shows like "Felicity" and "Sports Night" getting DVD releases, while we Xena fans were left begging forever, only to be ripped off by Davis-Panzer. PLEASE Anchor Bay, give us something nice.
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Summary: Finally
Review: FINALLY XENA HAS COME BACK TO D...VD. Its about time that the best action show of the ninties comes to dvd. i've been waiting for years to get this and now it is here. I only hope that Hercules gets released as well. If you like action, comedy, and scantily clad, leather wearing, sword weeling, chakram throwing action, this is definitely for you.
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Summary: Finnaly a Good Action Serie
Review: This cool action mythologie girl serie comes in DVD on april 29. sister show of HERCULES: THE LEGENDARY JOURNEYS who also will be on DVD on JUNE 3. Lucy Lawless is wonderful ,she has a real sword style and circle that no one else does. The First season includes : 1-Sins of the Past
2-Chariots of War
3-Dreamworker
4-Cradle of Hope
5-The Path Not Taken
6-The Reckoning
7-The Titans
8-Prometheus
9-Death in Chains
10-Hooves & Harlots
11-The Black Wolf
12-Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts
13-Athens City Academy of the Performing Bards
14-A Fistful of Dinars
15-Warrior...Princess
16-Mortal Beloved
17-The Royal Couple of Thieves
18-The Prodigal
19-Altared States
20-Ties That Bind
21-The Greater Good
22-Callisto
23-Death Mask
24-Is There a Doctor in the House? I can wait too have this one. CAN YOU ???...
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Summary: Xena Rocks
Review: Xena season one is amazing. It is here that we see how the Warrior Princess begins her adventures with her sexy little sidekick Gabrielle. This is classic Xena all the way, plus we are introduced to our favorites: Ephiny and the Amazons, Salmoneous, Lila, Cyrene, Draco, Autolycus (Bruce 'Evil Dead' Campbell), Ares, Hades, Princess Diana, Joxer and every Xenafan's favorite CALLISTO? There is also a cameo by Hercules and Iolaus for Hercfans. Previously this season of Xena could only be ordered from a webpage as seen on tv. To my understanding this collection is not remastered, and does not include DVD extras such as deleted scenes or commentaries. The good new, for those that can wait a couple more months, another mastered version with DVD extras is soon to be released. For those fans that must have this season now, order it here, it is about 30 dollars less than what it is offered in the commercials, but if you could relax for a month or two I suggest you get the vamped version.
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Summary: Terrible encoding artifacts ruin DVD set
Review: What some other reviews are calling "film grain" in this set is actually MPEG artifacting. The encoding on this set is so bad that you can't even SEE the film grain. On any large screen area of continuous color (skin, sky, etc.), you can see clear pixel patterns that don't shift as the camera or action shifts, especially on a larger TV. This DVD simply has the worst video encoding that I've ever seen. I watched the B5 Season 1 DVD set right before this, and had something to compare to. In contrast, that set had excellent encoding--good enough that you can see the the film grain and film scratches, and can tell the difference between scenes that are wide shots and those that were digitally zoomed (most of the effects shots). Moving to this DVD set was a real shock to the eyes, and this complete lack in video quality gives me the feeling that whoever was in charge just DID NOT CARE. I'm currently renting this set and would never buy it because of the poor encoding. In conclusion: I would give the source material 4 stars, but the video encoding is so poor that the box set only gets 2 (buy it if you're desperate for Xena and are OK with sub-VHS quality).
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Summary: The beginning of a great series!
Review: Season one starts off with the meeting and beginning of a relationship that will be a very exciting one. Lots of good episodes in this DVD collection. Nice action, comedy and drama! Still the best and original series to own. You gotta get it.
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