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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Don't Buy The Negativity!,
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This review is from: Sharpe's Rifles (DVD)
Having read some of the reviews here, I approached the purchase of the DVD sets with some apprehension. I am happy to report however that the quality is very satisfactory. Sure, it is not HD or even wide screen but these nearly twenty year old made for TV recordings have been preserved very well as far as I'm concerned. If you are a fan (and why would you be buying all these things if you're not), then you are going to be so quickly immersed in the story and the characters that you'll never notice. My disks had the the usual menus for scene selection - making me wonder if some of the poor reviews were based on hasty rips.The casting was spot on and the series appears as a labour of love by all concerned. While the plot lines diverge mildly from the Bernard Cornwell books, the essence of the story arc is preserved; and the atmosphere of the times, the characters and the action are all portrayed accurately and with the attention to detail that his Napoleonic era stories are famous for. I feel sure Cornwell himself would approve...
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
HORRIBLE DVDs of a Wonderful Series!,
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This review is from: Sharpe's Rifles (DVD)
The BBC Sharpe's Series DVDs are a very very poor picture (the worst I've seen). I bought all four original Sharpe's episodes on DVD and they all are much worse quality (picture and sound) than are the VHS copies I had purcahsed years ago [and VHSs deterioriate with use]!The Richard Sharpe series based on the novels by Bernard Cromwell are absolutely fabulous, and they deserve a FAR better treatment than is presented here! The viewer does not even have the option of going directly to a menu screen, but is forced to fast forward through the opening titles and theme song. Whomever transferred these made-for-tv episode films to MPG2 should be publicly humiliated - this is a disgrace! The picture is fuzzy and grainy as heck! The VHS cassettes actually look better, if you can believe that! I never thought VHS would beat DVD in quality until I compared the Sharpe's series side-by-side. The VHS won out every time. The sound quality is extremely poor on the DVDs too, it has a hiss and sounds muffled. Again, the VHS wins out! Buy these on VHS until enough of us complain and they discontinue these "Joke DVDs" and deliver the public the Sharpe's Series at a transfer rate that is not just acceptable - but worthy of this incredibly brilliant historic series!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
The quality isn't great ... so what?,
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This review is from: Sharpe's Rifles (DVD)
I've read all the previous reviews here about the Sharpe series. I also saw many of them on TV. So I was prepared when I got the DVD of Sharpe's Rifles the other weekend.Yes, the quality of the DVD is no better than a VHS master. In short, who cares? Watching the movie, I quickly forgot about the quality and simply enjoyed a great telling of a great story. It would have been nice if it were a little sharper (sorry about the pun) but look at it this way - in five years, the comparable VHS master will be so much video snow, and the DVD will still look the same as it did today! I gave it 4 stars simply because I've come to expect "extras" with DVD's - cast and crew notes, bloopers, etc...none of which were present here. The presentation strikes me as a "rush it to the market" approach by the DVD maker. The original story more that makes up for it, though.
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