Re: Thunder over Reno
Um, Tim, you're the one who needs to do your research! Just because something is for sale on the internet doesn't mean it's an official release. That website is nothing but a bunch of episodes, recorded off of t.v. onto VHS and encoded onto DVD. Anybody can make professional looking menu's like they did, even a 7 year old.
Criterion is NOT part of Twentieth Century Fox, who owns the rights to the series. You can verify what I said by going to either the IMDb website or the official Twentieth Century Fox home entertainment website where you can view everything that's been officially released.
By the way, that website just SCREAMS bootleg! Do you really think an official release would have the "Good Life" t.v. network logo on the screen, like that example they show? That's the television source from which this was recorded. Also, official releases aren't distributed in DVD+R format, which is a burned format on a home computer. With the exception of a few releases distributed by the History Channel a few years ago, I've never heard of a studio NOT releasing something on a pressed DVD. It may happen, but it's extremely rare and not common at all.
In addition, it states that there are two episodes per disc. That's about right for a single layer home burnt DVD at low bitrate encoding (which this is). A professional release would have many more episodes per disc. The reason is that official releases use the Master film/video sources. Because they use the Master sources, there is much less noise and "dirty" video, which eats up bandwidth during the encoding process like crazy. So, you use a "clean" source, and professional encoding hardware, which is much more efficient, and you can put more on per disc and still have it come out visually excellent, just like it came from the Master source.
Also, that Criterion collection has a region code of "0", which means "all region". Most television studios would put some kind of region code on it, especially if it wasn't a worldwide distribution, which this series probably would NOT be.
I have another piece of advice as well. Bootlegs are prevalent throughout the internet. You can even find "official" distribution channels like Amazon.com selling them. Amazon has literally millions of products and vendors. They don't have the time, resources, or manpower to verify everything they sell, so things do slip through the cracks from time to time. My advice is to research your product before you buy. Find out it if has been officially released. If it hasn't, then chances are it's a bootleg.
BTW, I bought those discs from Criterion many years ago before I had the knowledge that I do know. It was a HUGE ripoff! They are all extremely poor quality and look like 4th or 5th generation VHS's recorded from the 1980's. I was extremely disappointed in the set and it was a huge waste of money. Please don't support the bootleggers. Wait until this comes out officially. Trust me, it will at some point!
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Criterion is NOT part of Twentieth Century Fox, who owns the rights to the series. You can verify what I said by going to either the IMDb website or the official Twentieth Century Fox home entertainment website where you can view everything that's been officially released.
By the way, that website just SCREAMS bootleg! Do you really think an official release would have the "Good Life" t.v. network logo on the screen, like that example they show? That's the television source from which this was recorded. Also, official releases aren't distributed in DVD+R format, which is a burned format on a home computer. With the exception of a few releases distributed by the History Channel a few years ago, I've never heard of a studio NOT releasing something on a pressed DVD. It may happen, but it's extremely rare and not common at all.
In addition, it states that there are two episodes per disc. That's about right for a single layer home burnt DVD at low bitrate encoding (which this is). A professional release would have many more episodes per disc. The reason is that official releases use the Master film/video sources. Because they use the Master sources, there is much less noise and "dirty" video, which eats up bandwidth during the encoding process like crazy. So, you use a "clean" source, and professional encoding hardware, which is much more efficient, and you can put more on per disc and still have it come out visually excellent, just like it came from the Master source.
Also, that Criterion collection has a region code of "0", which means "all region". Most television studios would put some kind of region code on it, especially if it wasn't a worldwide distribution, which this series probably would NOT be.
I have another piece of advice as well. Bootlegs are prevalent throughout the internet. You can even find "official" distribution channels like Amazon.com selling them. Amazon has literally millions of products and vendors. They don't have the time, resources, or manpower to verify everything they sell, so things do slip through the cracks from time to time. My advice is to research your product before you buy. Find out it if has been officially released. If it hasn't, then chances are it's a bootleg.
BTW, I bought those discs from Criterion many years ago before I had the knowledge that I do know. It was a HUGE ripoff! They are all extremely poor quality and look like 4th or 5th generation VHS's recorded from the 1980's. I was extremely disappointed in the set and it was a huge waste of money. Please don't support the bootleggers. Wait until this comes out officially. Trust me, it will at some point!
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