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Jester
03-04-2011, 01:02 AM
Since Viacom now has the rights to the 4Kids series, and we may not ever see a compiled season 3 in 2 volumes of a proper season 4 vol 1, has anyone taken their Season 3-4 DVDs (3.1-7) and cobbled together their own for space and continuity's sake? I mainly ask because I'm kinda curious what DVD sleeve you might have used...if any, since I'm not the most skilled with (IE never have used, and don't own) Photoshop.

EDIT: How big of a continuity hole does having Still Nobody after All Hallows Thieves cause?

Xav
03-04-2011, 05:17 AM
There is no continuity hole having those episodes out of order as they have nothing to do with one another.

gobo
03-04-2011, 05:45 AM
I always had the intention of doing something similar someday in the back of my mind. But, I never got around to it. I just don't want to waste the effort if Nick is gonna release suitable collections themselves in the future. But, if/when, I plan to do a full series collection on likely 19 discs (17 dual-layer & 2 single), with interstitials and the FF animatic ep.

Now that I think of it, I'll probably do some protos w/o menus or labels, just so I can cut down on disc-swapping.

ToTheNines
03-04-2011, 06:08 AM
I just went and bought the Australian versions of them. They don't match up perfectly on my turtles shelf, but eff it.

Jester
03-04-2011, 08:13 AM
That may be a plan as well... considering even if Nick finishes the job, it's bound to not look the same either.
The biggest reason I even wanna do this is I've been watching the 2 animated series together season by season. I'm watching season 2 of the OT now that I've finished Season 1 and 2 of the NT and of course season 1 of the OT. Once I get to season 3...disk-swap-a-poloza.

Abnormal Freak
03-04-2011, 11:33 AM
Oh, man... I'm going through season three right now with a printout of the episode order. Swapping these discs like mad. Eventually, if I go through the series again, I'd like to somehow rip all of the episodes and compile them in order on writable DVDs. I don't know if I'd do elaborate sleeve artwork, and I'd keep the original DVDs, but it would be so much easier to do things this way.

oldmanwinters
03-04-2011, 06:16 PM
That may be a plan as well... considering even if Nick finishes the job, it's bound to not look the same either.
The biggest reason I even wanna do this is I've been watching the 2 animated series together season by season. I'm watching season 2 of the OT now that I've finished Season 1 and 2 of the NT and of course season 1 of the OT. Once I get to season 3...disk-swap-a-poloza.

Dude, Jester, you really are buffing up on your "research," eh?
You're gonna put me to shame in our future commentaries!

Jester
03-04-2011, 06:30 PM
Dude, Jester, you really are buffing up on your "research," eh?
You're gonna put me to shame in our future commentaries!

It's just something that happens to me when I watch something. Say I wanna see a certain clip to use for something, some times I wind up watching the whole episode. That's how it started. I was watching Season 1 of the NT for Things Change...and kept going, then we decided to do Turtle Tracks and it snow balled....

ToTheNines
03-04-2011, 11:05 PM
http://i727.photobucket.com/albums/ww280/craig-5/IMG_0402.jpg

That's my collection. In case you're kinda stoopid, the sets we're currently discussing are towards the right.

Jester
03-04-2011, 11:07 PM
http://i727.photobucket.com/albums/ww280/craig-5/IMG_0402.jpg

That's my collection. In case you're kinda stoopid, the sets we're currently discussing are towards the right.

They got Back to the Sewer in Oz, too? man i may have to import all 5 box sets.

Abnormal Freak
03-05-2011, 03:06 AM
If the Australian DVDs for season three are anything like the ones for Back to the Sewer, then they look like complete ass. I'd rather deal with the disc-swapping and at least get decent video quality.

Hoping Nickelodeon do proper DVD releases in line with seasons one and two here.

Jester
03-05-2011, 03:23 AM
If the Australian DVDs for season three are anything like the ones for Back to the Sewer, then they look like complete ass. I'd rather deal with the disc-swapping and at least get decent video quality.

Hoping Nickelodeon do proper DVD releases in line with seasons one and two here.

Pretty bad, eh?

ToTheNines
03-05-2011, 05:26 AM
Personally, I thought the BttS DVD's looked really good lol.

gobo
03-05-2011, 08:00 AM
^ So did I. You sure you're not just using crappy hardware, Freak? O_o Or might you just be talking about the packaging (which was still a step up from the US releases)?

Abnormal Freak
03-05-2011, 01:53 PM
You guys don't notice all the excessive macroblocking and pixelation? :p

I'm playing them through an Oppo PAL-to-NTSC DVD player on a really good Sony SDTV via S-Video. All my other PAL DVDs look rather good on it.

gobo
03-05-2011, 02:17 PM
Try playing it w/o that whachamacallit. Playing it on my DVD player w/o any type of filters, it looked perfect.

Spitfire
03-05-2011, 02:59 PM
The normal releases of all the episodes up until the Season 4 set look like crap as it is and have that annoying "1 2 3 Turtles" count off at every break. The BTTS disks didn't have that crap and they looked nice on my computer. I don't know what the S3 and 4 disks are like but I've considered getting them several times.

Abnormal Freak
03-05-2011, 04:18 PM
Try playing it w/o that whachamacallit. Playing it on my DVD player w/o any type of filters, it looked perfect.

I'm not watching with any filters. ;p If you mean my DVD player's PAL-to-NTSC conversion, it's the only way I can watch them on a TV. If you mean S-Video, that's just a video cable, far superior to composite.

The individual/jumbled US S3 DVDs aren't very good by any means, and I think they may even be interlaced, but they look a whole hell of a lot better than the Aussie BTTS DVDs I bought, which are just rife with incessant terrible artifacting.