Episode III is out on DVD
Monday, October 31, 2005 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I am so excited that Episode III will be released on DVD. I thought it would be a great time to list some Star Wars inspired skins.
CursorXP
Lightsaber - https://www.wincustomize.com/ViewSkin.aspx?SID=1&SkinID=1445&LibID=25
Lightsaber Dark Side - https://www.wincustomize.com/ViewSkin.aspx?SID=1&SkinID=1452&LibID=25
Star Wars Cursors - https://www.wincustomize.com/ViewSkin.aspx?SID=1&SkinID=1596&LibID=25
Bootskins
Iconpackager
Star Wars - http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/21002328/
ObjectDock
Star Wars Icons - https://www.wincustomize.com/Skins.aspx?LibID=29&view=1&sortby=4&sortdir=DESC&p=1&advanced=0&searchtxt=star%20wars
Rainlender
Lightsaber - https://www.wincustomize.com/ViewSkin.aspx?SID=1&SkinID=443&LibID=37
Windowblinds
Star Wars - https://www.wincustomize.com/ViewSkin.aspx?SID=1&SkinID=5206&LibID=1
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Reply #22 Tuesday, November 1, 2005 7:08 PM
| Prior to today it is an illegal and unathorized copy. |
Not necessarily. This sort of product has industry releases prior to public release. I remember seeing a VHS [pal] video of A Clockwork Orange about TEN YEARS before its public commercial release.
It happens...
Reply #23 Tuesday, November 1, 2005 8:03 PM
| Prior to today it is an illegal and unathorized copy. |
Again what I purchased last Thursday is the exact same retail packaged legitimate 2 DVD set anyone could purchase today. It is not an illegal or unauthorized copy. The sale of the DVD prior to today could in fact be considered unauthorized. However that in and of itself does not make the item I purchased illegal or unauthorized. If you had any experience in retail you would know that in most cases items such as this are delivered to the retail location days, sometimes even weeks before they are to be sold. It is then up to the retailer’s employees to hold the items back until the scheduled release date. Often they will sell these items prior to their scheduled release date. When this happens it does not deem the merchandise “illegal” or “unauthorized”. It simply means it was sold to a retail customer before the distributor intended. If you think this carries a $10,000 fine for the end customer all I can do is laugh as I watch the movie yet again.
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Reply #25 Tuesday, November 1, 2005 11:02 PM
. Although it was hard to find in the store, all that was on display in the front was the regular 2-disc edition.People buying it last week is a very conceivable thing, because it seems to happen all the time in small non-chain stores, people either accidentally or intentionally don't pay attention to street dates on the shipping cartons and just put the darn things out for sale early. But three months early through Kellogg's??? I doubt that, something doesn't sound right about that.
Oh, and btw, thanks for the link to the SW icons, I'd never seen those before.
Reply #26 Wednesday, November 2, 2005 8:17 AM
| I bought my copy at Wal-Mart on the way home from work, they had the best exclusive thingie...the bonus 1 hour DVD. It was an extra 5 bucks, but what the hell . Although it was hard to find in the store, all that was on display in the front was the regular 2-disc edition. |
That's what I did. The extra DVD is great.
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Reply #29 Wednesday, November 2, 2005 9:08 AM
| you and your "video store" committed theft |
| I do this for a living, Genius, so I wouldn't laugh too hard because you can be arrested |
This is most interesting and I would love to see exactly what law that states how one could be arrested for paying a retail store for goods they offer. Perhaps with your vast knowledge you should enter law enforcement oh mighty guru of DVD sales.
Reply #30 Wednesday, November 2, 2005 9:20 AM
Reply #31 Wednesday, November 2, 2005 9:55 AM
| Not necessarily. This sort of product has industry releases prior to public release. I remember seeing a VHS [pal] video of A Clockwork Orange about TEN YEARS before its public commercial release. |
Again, try NOT to be so emphatic and/or absolute. There WILL often be an instance that proves you wrong....
Reply #32 Wednesday, November 2, 2005 10:25 AM
]And did everyone forget that Star Wars Battlefront II was also released? Got it on PSP - really cool game!Reply #33 Wednesday, November 2, 2005 10:51 AM
Reply #34 Wednesday, November 2, 2005 1:41 PM
anyway, episode III....
Reply #35 Wednesday, November 2, 2005 5:53 PM
| Jafo: Oh, yes, this has been happening for years. We were offered, for example, "Heavy Metal" about three years prior to its release. Of course, we passed it up. You can get, if you want, any film on video (even films that are not yet released to theatres). I was referring to "legal" copies. By the way, the "law" is an absolute. My main concern is that this is the type of person who would gladly steal a key for Stardock/Wincustomize. |
You clearly miss the point.
This was a legitimate Clockwork Orange release, not some 'pirate'.
History for you....
Stanley Kubrick owned sole rights to the film's screening/distribution...particularly in the UK where it was made.....To be shown there the Censors wanted it cut [as a matter of interest I saw it there in London]. Kubrick refused to allow it to be altered...so it was never shown...[this is 1973].
It WAS, however, released in Australia....uncut but rated 'R'.....[the first film here to be so rated]....again, 1973
Many years later it was produced on VHS for the Australian market....and test-distributed to Video stores here.....until someone realised both AUS and UK were Pal format....and there would be frantic mail-orders to the UK of something which was still being vetoed by Kubrick...as far as the UK was concerned....so....the Videos were subsequently withdrawn from 'sale'.
Of course, now that Kubrick is dead, his estate has allowed the film's distribution fully.
I viewed that VHS easily a good 10 years before it was released commercially in any form, and yet it was a legal, commercial production and very definitely NOT a 'pirate'.
Reply #36 Friday, November 4, 2005 12:35 AM
| My main concern is that this is the type of person who would gladly steal a key for Stardock/Wincustomize. |
For your information I have paid for all my Stardock software just as I paid for my copy of Episode 3. You are clearly overreacting. No one lost out on anything when I made my puchases. Nothing was stolen. If you are concerend about the type of person who pays their hard earned money stealing you need to take a step back and take a good look at reality. Obviously you are concerened about the the wrong type of person. You no doubt have much to learn if you think you can make such a judgement about a person after reading a few posts on a message board.
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Reply #40 Friday, November 4, 2005 10:57 AM
| the film is a worthless piece of excrement which is an insult to the medium |
The music was thrilling. If there had been no spoken dialog the movie would have been almost complete. I had a dream once where I overdubbed new dialog . . . I don't know if it was better or not. I woke up before I finished it.
A friend gave me the (now unavailable, and in my house un-playable) laserdisc version of the original trilogy on DVD he picked up on his last trip to China. There's a break in the middle of each movie where the disc was flipped but otherwise looks great. I didn't ask for it, didn't pay for it. I don't know the legality.
I do know that I own (bought myself) three other versions* of the trilogy on VHS and/or DVD (Original, Original THX, Special Edition Wide, Special Edition Pan-n-Scan, DVD) and I don't feel badly watching this version.
All I know is that it's the original movies in hi-def and best of all . . . Han shoots first!
*note: all versions were bought before I was married. Go figure.
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Reply #21 Tuesday, November 1, 2005 5:51 PM