Season 2 DVD

Okay, now I'm mad. I watched all through season 2 up to episode 20 and the next one was the first episode of season 3, even though at least episode 22 is online and I get the feeling that the last two episodes of season 2 are connected, not least, because episode 22 is called "Pandora's Trunk (2)" I want the damn DVDs!

Keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

Amen! What really p!sses me off is that CSI and other shows get at least 2 DVD releases per season! They're selling that stuff in half-season increments and a half season for 30 Euros and that stuff sells! I know that the CSI franchise is incredibly popular and even I have been known to watch the New York one, just to ogle Eddie Cahill, but the characters are infinitely more relatable on Crossing Jordan. I love Jill Hennessy, Steve Valentine and Jerry O'Connell (and Ravi Kapoor, Miguel Ferrer and pretty much everyone else). I wanted the CJ DVDs so badly that I didn't even order them on amazon when I had the spare cash, but went to the store and paid 5+ Euros extra (45 €), because amazon was cheaper, but would have taken a day longer. So I would even pay 40 Euros for each of the remaining seasons… They should just not bother with separate season box sets and release the whole series in one box set for somewhere between 100 and 150 bucks and be done with it.
I get that the musical stuff is annoying, because they have to get licenses for every song snippet they used (and I don't want them to replace the original music with different stuff, either), but seriously, why didn't they start dealing with that kind of red tape and releasing the DVDs when the series was still on the air? Every other TV show I have on DVD started selling the DVDs as soon as the season was over in America, which funnily led to me having the 10th season of Friends before the season was even half over on TV in Germany.

Every 27th customer will get a ball-peen hammer free!

This is interesting because there has to be **someone** who put up the money to change the 4:3 to widescreen.

The bad news there is when that change is made, most of that sort of transfer leaves out part(s) of the original frame. This is similar to the pan-and-scan that took widescreen movies down to the 4:3 format for VHS and Beta tapes, and even DVDs. Viewers complained a *lot* about the pan-and-scan cutting out part(s) of one (or both) sides to follow the most interesting part of the frame. That sometimes led to "strange things" in the 4:3 version where a character originally might move from one side of a room to the other side, and was the only character in the frame, and did not appear to move in the 4:3 version, but the background seemed to be moving instead!
(The 'focus' of the panning was the lone character, so that character tended to stay in, or near, the center of the 4:3 frame.)

Any movie filmed in PANAVISION (widest(?) film format) was horribly butchered in the conversion to 4:3, but that was the format of **all** home viewing screens back then. A friend of a friend worked for years as the projectionist for the movie theatre in a small town, and once mentioned there were 19 different lense sets for the projectors, and the film prints specified which set to use on that particular film. (Have you been in a theatre when the wrong lense set was used for a movie, and the entire audience boo'ed until the film was stopped, rewound, and then begun again with the correct set? I have had that experience several times...)


Anyway... There can be other reasons that set was done, with copyright ownership issues high on the list. By reworking the original film/transfer, that *might* be needed to assert ownership of the series/movie so it does not fall into the "public domain" where the original copyright owners lose their ownership.

The Motion Picture and Recording Artists groups have been trying very hard (for at least three decades!!) to find, or make, a way so they get paid EVERY TIME anyone plays their 'intellectual property'. After all that time, the day is almost here with both movie and music streaming. That eliminates downloading, and "hard copy" ownership/licensing of things like CD/DVD/Blu-Ray copies. Tivo was somewhere in the middle, with a monthly subscription fee to record and view the recording kept within the Tivo box. With the media-in-hand, if I bought a DVD set, I can watch all or part of 'it' any time I want, and for as many times as I want, without paying anything more for the use. That is EXACTLY what they want to stop!
Well, that and something like me swapping my series to someone else in exchnge for another item, or, selling my set to a resale store, or buying from a resale store.

If you have any doubt about this, just look, (usually at the very end of the DVD set, after all the credits have played), and the new series and movies have their new legal restrictions regarding the licensing of that copy, in MANY different languages, (I stopped counting after I reached thirty!), expressly prohibiting even swapping or reselling that movie or series, as well as any sort of "public performance" which would include in a hospital, an offshore oil/gas drill rig, a church group, and so on...
Do you think they 'accidentally' put that legal "fine print" as the very last thing? Most(?) viewers reach the credits and stop the playback... but the legalese is on the media itself, and well out of what is normally viewed, hidden in plain sight.