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Sunday 25th June 2000 |
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Weekend Reviews
Some old reviews and a few previews
Vertigo's Collector's Edition DVD
has received First Class Treatment, Run
Lola Run scrubbed up very nicely, as did the choc-filled Mystery Men Collector's Edition DVD,
and most surprisingly was the very nice looking, but extras deprived Muppets Take Manhanntan DVD
(which hasn't even been released in the USA yet!!)
Sneak Peak Upcoming VRS DVDS
Making it's way to us via email late Friday arvo were some menu shots of a
few upcoming Roadshow DVDs, Namely The Hurricane, The Talented Mr Ripley and Scream 3.
Please drop by the DVD Slicks Page and
go to the bottom of the page for the appropriate links for all menu shots.
Birthday Specials
To help Celebrate our 2nd Birthday and as a PRE-GST Sale, we have a few
goodies on offer that you won't want to miss!!.
Black Amaray Cases are going for as
Low as $1.60 each, and DTS Plaques
are currently $65 (including Postage), in fact we're offering specials on
EVERYTHING (our DVD Case Covers are
even going for 30% OFF the normal price)
These Prices will only be this low for a short time, so get in Quick!!
Drop by the DVD Station
main page for more pricing, etc
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Tuesday 20th June 2000 |
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DVD Goes
Prehistoric
That Juicy rumour we got wind of last week and everyone crossed their fingers
for turned out to be true after all!!
Please Click HERE for the Press Release
on the TWO Upcoming Spielberg Collector's Edition Blockbusters, Jurassic Park and the Lost
World!
DVDown Under Turns 2
It was a couple of days ago (17th June to be exact) that DVDown Under turned
two, and what a scary thought that is.
Before DVDown Under came to fruition, some may remember that my DVD web site partner in
crime, Paul, ran the original site, DVD Station.
DVD Station was initially a mixture of both region 1 and region 4 DVD news and Info, as
back then DVD in Australia was only in its true infancy. After I boughts me DVD
Player for Christmas I came across Paul's site and asked him if he'd like me to do some
reviews for him. Before he could say yes, I was reviewing DVDs and DVD Station was
split into 2 distinct sections, region 1 news (run by Paul) and region 4 news run by Matt
(me :). Wanting to Australianise my part of the site as much as possible the Aussie
section was named DVDown Under. (2 years later and people still screw up the spelling and
pronunciation of that name...jeez, you try to be clever and look what happens :))
Not long after, Paul was going to pull the plug on the entire site!!!! so I jumped in and
pretty much took over the whole thing (yes I do have a imprint on my forehead that says
STUPID! :). On the 11th August 1998, DVD Station and DVDown Under merged back into
one site, with the entire website renamed to DVDown Under.
Then In December of 1998, Paul and I thought we'd expand our little 'ol DVD site by
selling a variety of Home Theatre products, accessories that weren't easy to find around
the place. So We Started off with the DVD Case
Covers (for those Bloody Awful snapper cases! ..sorry but I think they suck!, the
cardboard cases that is, not our fine product :).
Being a pair of clever little vegemites, we decided to name our On-line(ish) Store....DVD Station (clever huh? :) and In not
too much time we also started to sell the Amaray cases,
Brackley Cases, QED
Cables and DTS Plaques (the underlined text does
in fact Link to the appropriate pages..a shameless plug I know :)))Well over Two and a half years have past since Paul started this DVD
web site, and not only have we been fortunate enough that my dear 'ol pal Cass bought
herself a DVD player and got in on the review act as well [with so many DVDs now being
released here every month] but every week between 1000 and 1500 visitors drop
by our site to see what's happening in DVD Land. The amount of region 1 news on
DVDown Under has pretty much vanished since we began, which is a good thing as it has been
to make room for more News and Reviews from our every growing Region Number 4.
Here's to at least another 2 years of DVD'ing Down Under :)
Happy DVD'ing
Matt Goldsmith, Paul James, and Cass Nunn
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Friday 16th June 2000 |
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A VERY JUICY
RUMOUR
Now if everyone crosses their fingers, this will no doubt come true, honest!
From a rather reliable [witness protected] source, DVDown Under was told that in addition
to Columbia Australia releasing the already known about JAWS DVD the same date as
the USA (with this whole simultaneous worldwide release business), there would ALSO be
another Spielberg Blockbuster (that's really a double conundrum isn't it! :) to
receive Simultaneous world wide DVD release.
Actually, make that TWO more Spielberg Films to be released on DVD Simultaneously across
all regions!!!!!
Yep that's right JURASSIC PARK and The Lost World are also rumoured to be
released on DVD here in OZ this coming October!!!!
Sweeeeeeet. Most likely ours won't be available with a DTS 5.1 audio track (like
Jaws), though it would be nice to hear it the way God intended :)
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Tuesday 6th June 2000 |
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Weekend Reviews
Though both of these Roadshow titles were released a short while ago, they're
both still worth reviewing (even if neither is what you'd call Oscar worthy material :-)),
so here's The Jaws wanna-be Deep Blue Sea,
and Judge Dredd
CTHV Press Releases
CTHV have a new look website and a press
release to go with it, as well as the July
DVD Press Release
(for full DVDetails see the Previous Editorial
PS. Trevor Lees
have that very nice Sony True 16x9 LCD Projector going for a song! (just under 11 grand
actually :) which includes the adjustable roof mounting
bracket, and free installation (I'm guessing you'll need to live close by for the
installation though!!)PPS FANGORIA, the Great Horror
Magazine, Now have a Web
site...took 'em long enough!
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