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intereact!Directors: Tony Tilse, Ian Watson (II), Geoff Bennett (II)
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Retail Price (not our price): $24.98
Release Date: 2005-03-15
Theatrical Release Date: 1999-03-19
Studio: Adv Films
Run Time: 400 minutes
Format: Array
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Discs: 2
Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
1) Description
This must-have collection includes 8 episodes of the first season of the Jim Henson Television, Hallmark Entertainment, and Nine Networks award-winning series on 2 discs. This award-winning series, which airs on SCI FI, has been called "The Best Sci-Fi on TV," by TV Guide, and hailed as "TV's Best Space Series" by USA Today.
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5
1) Great show.... [Rating: 3 out of 5]
I love Farscape, so any review I do about them that has less than five stars hurts me. But I have to say, the double sided DVDs sometimes seem to freeze or skip. Not alot or I would have demanded a replacement, not that there are any, but double sided DVDs are just not the best way to get a show out to the public, even if it somehow makes them cheaper.On the other hand there were a lot more extras in the Starburst edition than the other DVDs and the other seasons are available to get NEW, not used, so I am looking forward to the other seasons. Too bad the first season is so hard to get and costs so much. More people would become Fans and spend more money on the DVDs.2) Farscape is great! [Rating: 4 out of 5]
I started watching Farscape in Season 3. I watched all episodes and reruns I could get my hands on. I think they were INSANE to drop it from television.I eventually bought the entire collection at once.The only reason I gave this a 4 out of 5 stars, is because of the quality of the DVD. The inner clips of the box break very easily. The DVD always defaults back to subtitles between episodes, which is really annoying.Even with the problems of the DVD, I love this set.3) And still the best science fiction show ever created! [Rating: 5 out of 5]
The stories just keep getting better and better. Very original, very intelligent and very sexy!And Ben Browder makes for good eye candy.If only there were more shows like this one.4) Now on Single Sided disks [Rating: 5 out of 5]
After many complaints, ADV has chosen to re-release all of Starburst Seasons 1 and 2 on SINGLE SIDED disks. The positive effects that come from this change are many:1. DVD quality is No Longer low. Disks play well, no glitches, no freezes, etc.2. The titles of the episodes are marked clearly on each disk. No need to squint and rotate the DVD as you try to read some tiny font.3. No need to flip the disk over when you want to watch other episodes. This is mostly beneficial to the people who own DVD players that can hold multiple disks at once.4. Disk artwork :-DThere are then, certain faults that result from the change as well, all dealing with packaging quality:--> Disks are stored in such a way that 2 are attached to each side of the DVD case. This means that in order to get to the disk at the bottom, you first have to remove the one at the top. If this isn't annoying enough, it turns out that all of the DVD buttons that hold the top disks don't work very well. Pushing the button doesn't pop the disks out as there are other plastic pieces that hold it in place. You have to push those with your fingers in order to get a disk out, and that can get really painful. If you're not careful, you might very well break a DVD in half.My personal solution was to go and get my own DVD cases that worked properly. Having to find multi-disk cases with identical dimensions as that of the ADV ones shouldn't be that difficult. Also try to find ones that have clippings for literature, if you want to keep one in your DVD case. This Starburst release comes with a separate page listing disk content/episode synopsis, but there's no where to adequately store it.-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_Having that said, the content of the Starburst itself is excellent. As you know, all of the extra features from the original releases, plus many new ones (mainly the commentaries) are included. Subtitles have finally become available, and some disks don't have those annoying ADV commercials that blighted each of the original Farscape releases.As for the quality of the show itself, that's something I won't discuss. If you haven't made up your mind about whether you like/dislike the series, then you've probably read enough reviews to get an idea of what most audience think about Farscape. I personally feel that Starburst Collection 1.3 contains the best lot of the episodes in the first Season.5) DVD Quality VERY LOW - Series and Extras Excellent! [Rating: 1 out of 5]
This reveiw is more about the quality issues with the disc more so than the content of the disc. For the record ADV has added a lot of extras that is not anywhere else. Albeit many are repeated multible times on different disc of this STARBURST series release that could have been better used reducing the compression ratio. As for the quality issues, these are recorded on dual layer double sided disc and as of this writing I have had to send 3 of the 6 currently released back to be exchanged due to skipping, frame freeze, audio cracking etc. The disc were checked on 3 players and a computer and did the same on all of them. So the issue is with the quality or the lack thereof. I have contacted ADV about the quality issues and they have more the most part said ... 'Oh well.' The more pricey collection did not have these issues, but lacked many of the extras and you get what you pay for. Granted to be fair when the disc work, the video and audio quality is fine, but it is annoying to get to the middle of a show and the disc freezes up and up have to skip over 10 or more minutes to get it to play. ADV simply tried to squeeze to much into to small of a space. This collection really should have been put on 4 disc instead of 2. They did not include scene selection either, you can only choose which episode you want to see then fast forward through the tracks after that. As I said I love the show and it is a healthy 5 but this release's quality is a sickly zero.