Hi list, Some weeks ago, when I had already long given up on Roseanne ever getting released on DVD here, a season 1 box was indeed announced. This was exciting news especially since there was some hope that the DVDs might be uncut. Though some onlineshops reported a running time in line with the UK and US versions, others like amazon.de as well as the publisher, Universum Film, reported 575 minutes. Unfortunately the announcement did not mention any extras.
I have this box since monday and I can indeed confirm it's uncut. So far all the episodes are running 24 minutes 15 seconds and the scenes mentioned at http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=185535 are indeed present. The box states a running time of 550 minutes which is what amazon has corrected the number to shortly before release. What's more, the extras are present after all, though I have not yet got to them. The box uses the original US/UK layout for the most part. The little "film pictures" are different, though. The ones on the front are from season 1, but the ones from the back are from various other seasons. Well, I suppose they wanted to correct for the fact that there were too many season 1 pictures on the box... The text on the back is a German standard text for Roseanne and it's pretty bad. Nothing there specifically referring to season 1. Nowhere on the box does it even mention George Clooney which could have been a good selling point. The box is very slim. The downside of that is that of the 4 DVDs 2 and 2 overlap each other and you must take out the upper one to get to the one below that. I would have preferred a bigger box with direct access to all DVDs. Audio is available in both German and English in Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono. Video quality is okay, not as good as my UK season 2 set. The video is German which means the episode titles displayed are the German ones. There are no subtitles at all. I'm kinda used to not having English subtitles in German sets, but here there are not even German ones. There is no booklet with episode summaries or even a list of episodes. There is a list at the back of the box, but only German titles. There is a paper in there mentioning that if you buy the first 8 seasons you get the 9th for free. This doesn't concern me because I already had season 2 and besides am only interested in 1-5, certainly not 8 and 9. But it's still good news because it's like a promise. Hopefully they stay true to it and don't stop after season 3 or something. It also says there that they will release one season every 3 months, though season 2 is scheduled for 26th November which is much earlier than that. Here are some pictures of the box, the menu and out of episodes: http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/8381/boxfrontmy9.jpg http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/5060/boxbackqe5.jpg http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/2641/menu1io6.jpg http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/5692/menu2fr9.jpg http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/3797/screen1bs2.jpg http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/6963/screen2cv6.jpg http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/9450/screen3cl2.jpg http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/4725/screen4rh2.jpg It's certainly much more enjoying to watch the episodes in the original than the German version. I'd consider the second half of this season the good one but even with the first few episodes I'm having a lot of fun. They just become twice or thrice as good just because the dialogue and voices are so much better. And this is especially true for season 1 because there the German dubbing is even worse than in later seasons. This box is region 2 which means it plays in every European DVD player. -- Best regards, Andre ********************* Message archives http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RoseanneNetwork/messages Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RoseanneNetwork/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RoseanneNetwork/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
