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Summary: Great collection - disappointing DVD features
Review: I already owned the first season of the X-Files completely on VHS, as it was available in Europe and I was looking forward to replace it through the better qualitites DVDs of course. While I am satisfied with the episodes, I do think that the additional features offered on the 7th DVD are rather poor. Honestly who cares about 10 second TV spots? But they are all there... Also the additional feature documentaries are rather short and mostly contain material once prepared for TV. I really did expect more background information on the series... What I like though are the clips in foreign languages of different episodes, although I am sure a wider selection would have been possible. Dont miss out to listen to Scully's extremely sexy voice (dubbed) in German :-)
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Summary: Standard for future box sets!
Review: Awesome box set! Great quality, construction (the whole case is connected and unfolds), easy menus and more! You'll see just how great the first season was!
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Summary: DVD - Poor quality alert!
Review: I have just received the DVD box set, and in my opinion the transfer is poor. It looks as though the entire thing as been fed through a filter to reduce film noise (and hence improve compression), this results in a very soft picture that has barely more resolution than my VHS copies. Add to this some very obvious 'locking' of the backgrounds (and faces) in some places and what we seem to end up with is a fairly poor showing... I usually buy my DVD's from the states, simply because my experience of UK transfers is not a good one, however I think I'll be a little more careful in future. If you already have them on VHS then I wouldn't bother, otherwise I suppose at least the DVD's have colour.... FYI, I used a Toshiba 2109 and 41" Sony rear projection.
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Summary: Trust ... Me ... On This One
Review: I first became a casual viewer of "The X-Files" late into its second season. This DVD set appealed to me because I thought it would be interesting to follow the development of the show and its characters during its first year, and because I was curious to see how a television series would look and sound in the DVD format. I could not be more pleased on either count. The program content is uniformly outstanding, thanks to consistently fine performances by David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, intriguing scripts, great visual effects, clever editing, and of course Mark Snow's brilliant musical score. There were episodes I especially enjoyed ("Eve", "Darkness Falls", "Shapes", "Tooms"), but that's simply a matter of personal taste; in fact, each of the 24 segments offered its own distinctive pleasures. The DVD presentation is consistently outstanding, with sharp, crisp visuals and clean sound. What a pleasure to enjoy the stories without commercial interruptions, breaking news pre-emptions, and/or annoying "visual noise" like station logos or weather warnings superimposed in the corner of the screen. The DVD extras (commentary by cast members and creator Chris Carter, promotional spots, etc.) are simply icing on an already perfectly baked cake. I've already pre-ordered the 2nd season packaged on DVD (scheduled for November 2000 release), and am looking forward to revisiting the early adventures of Scully and Mulder.
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Summary: TrustThis1
Review: This package is excellent both in terms of presentation AND value for money. The whole of the first season compactly presented on 6 discs (Could have been 3 double sided DVDs but that would just be being pedantic) in a neat presentation case that folds up to something not much bigger than a VHS videotape... AND you get the X-FILES at it's best, before it got bogged down in a plethora of conspiracies and endless reiterations of Mulder's sister's abduction. Picture and sound quality are generally very good (It IS only a TV series...) If only Star Trek and The Twilight Zone could be presented like this....
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Summary: The Ultimate Purchase
Review: To get all season 1 episodes of possibly the greatest TV show in history is a great buy. Far superior to simular "sci/fi" shows like Buffy and done better than Dramas like Law and Order and ER, this set gives you all the first season episodes in one set, among them, the classic episodes that started it all
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Summary: The Truth is on DVD
Review: I have never before been as please with a purchase as I am with the Season 1 DVD's. I was prepared to pay more, and was very surprised with the low price. The extra featurs alone are priceless to me! If you are thinking about getting the DVD's, go for it! It's well worth it!
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Summary: A wonderful find.
Review: What a great surprise! The whole season is right here and in DVD! It's nice to be able to go back to ANY of the episodes -- even those I barely remember-- and watch them all again. The packaging is glorious-- a unique fold-out design with built-in jewel cases and silkscreened images to differentiate each disc. On the negative side, for those of us with larger televisions (27-32" screens), you may notice a good deal of visual background mottling. It's almost as if you're looking at a series of Quicktime movies. You can see a lot of digitized patterns--some of them are quite visible-- that come and go in the texture of the walls and in open backgrounds. Some people would never notice it, but if you're the type of person that would, then be prepared--the digital transfer is lacking. The sound is not noticeably better than the videos, but is not bad. My only other point would be that DVDs now allow us the extra space to view outtakes, bloopers and documentaries. The outtakes (there are only 2 in the set from the Pilot) are incredibly interesting, and are of great interest to the fans. (Sorry, no spoilers.) I would have loved to have seen more "extras" included in the final mix. The documentaries with Chris Carter and other staff members are very informative and enjoyable, yet for the big fans, will not provide all that much new information. Even with these comments, I still enjoy the set and think it's a great value! I would LOVE to see Chris Carter's other series, Millennium, packaged in such a manner!
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Summary: A must for any X-phile!
Review: This is a great package and worth every cent (especially as I pre-ordered and got it for 90 bucks!). All twenty four episodes spread across six disks, with great extras on the seventh. All the discs comes in a neat fold-out binder, which takes up very little shelf space. On-screen presentation, as I've come to expect from 20th Century Fox, is superb. Time to throw out all your old recordings! This is THE best way to own The X-Files! Roll on the remaining seasons...
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Summary: Yes, This is the way to release a Televisionseries
Review: I will not go into the details of the contents of thisX-Filesedition; If you've bought this one, you're a fan and besidesothers can do this far more eloquently than I ever can... However I want to make a few comments about this edition: IT'S A JOY ! This is how cult TV-shows should be released. The box is of a nifty & ingenious construction so that it can hold 7 discs...7 discs, I hear you think, yes only 7 and it contains the whole 1st season and then some. Abundant yummy-behind-the-scenes material has found a space on these discs as well. Fox really gives you you hard earned money's worth. But at the same time it puts other producers to shame and exposing them as people who unscrupulously are milking loyal fans for every dollarcent they have, the one and foremost that comes to mind is ...Star Trek-series with only 2 episodes per disc (as compared to 4 on the X-files discs) and NO extra's (discounting the trailers). With this edition, Fox really shows respect to the fans who have stayed loyal to the X-Files for all this time...
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