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发帖数: 60932 | 1 Fawlty Towers: The Complete Collection Remastered $21.99:
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Lowest price I've ever seen for this set. MSRP is $49.98: $21.99 is 57% off.
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show the lowest price elsewhere at $28.98 from Mommy Bear Media. The
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About the show:
In 2000 the British Film Institute (BFI), conducted a poll of television
industry professionals, to create a list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFI_TV_100
of the one hundred greatest British television programs (or should I say,
"programmes"), of any genre, ever to have been screened. Class science
fiction series like Doctor Who (#3), comedy series like Monty Python's
Flying Circus (#5), television feature films like The Naked Civil Servant (#
2) and Cathy Come Home (#2), dramas like I, Claudius (#12), and televised
shorts like The Wrong Trousers (#18), etc., all were represented.
Fawlty Towers, ranked #1, was honored by the British Film Institute and
British television industry with the position of the greatest British
television program ever made.
Fawlty Towers is a British sitcom produced by BBC Television and first
broadcast on BBC2 in 1975. Twelve television episodes were produced (two
series each of six episodes, with nearly four years between series). The
show was the creation of John Cleese and Connie Booth of Monty Python fame.
They strived for perfection, and had the time and resources to commit to it.
Some of these approximately half-hour episodes took four months and as many
as ten drafts to write until they were satisfied.
Fawlty Towers is definitely worth watching! If you can laugh, you will laugh.
About this set:
This is the latest and greatest, and likely final, DVD set of the series. It
's been remastered and never has looked or sounded better- and probably
never will. Shot on 1970's PAL videotape with exterior shots in 16mm film,
the master looks like this. Don't hold out for a Blu-ray release as there is
negligible room for improvement. The masters themselves are in standard
definition, not high definition. The quality of this set is superior to that
of the prior 2001 DVD set ("Fawlty Towers: The Complete Collection", with
caricature illustration covers), and includes a few new extras. I wouldn't
recommend buying the new set if you own the previous set unless you're a big
fan, but if you plan to watch the entire series you might as well watch it
in the best format available.
Set specifications:
Actors: John Cleese, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth, Prunella Scales
Format: Box set, DVD, Full Screen, Original recording remastered, Special
Edition, Subtitled, NTSC
Language: English (Dolby Digital 1.0)
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 3
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Worldwide
DVD Release Date: October 20, 2009
Run Time: 374 minutes
ASIN: B002LFPAUC
Special Features:
Exclusive commentary by John Cleese
2009 extended interviews, including exclusive interview with Connie
Booth
Accompanying booklet
Interviews with John Cleese, Prunella Scales, and Andrew Sachs
Series 1 director's commentary by John Howard Davies
Series 2 director's commentary by Bob Spiers
Artist profiles
Outtakes
Torquay Tourist Guide (short documentary film)
Cheap Tatty Review
External reviews of the set:
Cinemablend:
http://www.cinemablend.com/dvds/Fawlty-Towers-The-Complete-Coll
DVDtalk:
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/38720/fawlty-towers-complete-col
A note for videophiles:
As a 1.33:1 (4:3) standard definition television program shot mostly on SD
videotape, I would definitely advise watching this on an SDTV rather than an
HDTV (just as I advise for 1.33:1 SD videotape in general). Since the
source videotape is PAL, this DVD set would be the best format to watch on
an NTSC television (standard in North America and Japan) for the highest
quality. If watching PAL TV (such as in Europe), you're better off with the
Region 2 UK PAL set in the show's native PAL format. I'd rather not watch
this on an HDTV, but if that's the case then the PAL set will be superior.
However, it's Region 2-locked and you may encounter difficulty playing it
outside of Europe, where most DVD players and televisions are not compatible
. I'd advise Americans who aren't sticklers for video quality to buy the
Region 1 NTSC set for wider compatibility. The Region 2 PAL UK set is
available for Amazon.co.uk for 4.97 (USD $23.66 as I right this) and they
ship internationally.
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