Comments on: Holy Viper Exhaust! A custom DVD/Blu-ray packaging that frakkin’ rocks! http://www.battlestarcafe.com/holy-viper-exhaust-custom-dvd-blu-ray-packaging-frakkin-rocks/ Food for Thought Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bill Williams http://www.battlestarcafe.com/holy-viper-exhaust-custom-dvd-blu-ray-packaging-frakkin-rocks/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Bill Williams Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:14:48 +0000 http://www.battlestarcafe.com/?p=419#comment-8 I did my own custom binder similar to Bill Hunt's when the series hit Blu-ray last summer. I ordered one of the clear Keba binders from a company in Seattle that was about $40, then got the CD/DVD storage pages via Amazon.com for about $25. Then I trimmed the corners of the binder a la how the Propwerx binder is done (though mine looks a little thicker on the ends), glued the metallic label from the box set onto the front cover, and voila! Instant custom binder! Bill was definitely impressed with my handiwork! Since then I've added the Blu-ray of The Plan, DVDs of content not included on the Blu-ray box set, a couple of Emmy consideration DVDs, the Caprica DVD from last year, CD-Rs of missing audio content (missing podcasts, writers meetings, and the Frak Party), and all the soundtrack CDs (just got The Plan/Razor today!). Just recently I added a small sticker onto the front cover that reads "Still Not", because Universal won't issue "The Face of the Enemy" on DVD/Blu-ray all because of money. Just when you think it couldn't get any more cheapjack, first in releasing the entire series on Blu-ray, then in releasing each season individually on Blu-ray, now this upcoming re-release with The Plan added into the mix, and still no FotE? All because the studio doesn't want to pony up the bucks because a couple of speaking actors (who never appeared in any other episode or spinoff) don't want to renegotiate? If Universal isn't going to fork out the money to issue FotE on disc, then the fans shouldn't fork out the money to Universal in turn for a so-called "complete" series when we all know that isn't the case. I did my own custom binder similar to Bill Hunt’s when the series hit Blu-ray last summer. I ordered one of the clear Keba binders from a company in Seattle that was about $40, then got the CD/DVD storage pages via Amazon.com for about $25. Then I trimmed the corners of the binder a la how the Propwerx binder is done (though mine looks a little thicker on the ends), glued the metallic label from the box set onto the front cover, and voila! Instant custom binder! Bill was definitely impressed with my handiwork!

Since then I’ve added the Blu-ray of The Plan, DVDs of content not included on the Blu-ray box set, a couple of Emmy consideration DVDs, the Caprica DVD from last year, CD-Rs of missing audio content (missing podcasts, writers meetings, and the Frak Party), and all the soundtrack CDs (just got The Plan/Razor today!).

Just recently I added a small sticker onto the front cover that reads “Still Not”, because Universal won’t issue “The Face of the Enemy” on DVD/Blu-ray all because of money. Just when you think it couldn’t get any more cheapjack, first in releasing the entire series on Blu-ray, then in releasing each season individually on Blu-ray, now this upcoming re-release with The Plan added into the mix, and still no FotE? All because the studio doesn’t want to pony up the bucks because a couple of speaking actors (who never appeared in any other episode or spinoff) don’t want to renegotiate? If Universal isn’t going to fork out the money to issue FotE on disc, then the fans shouldn’t fork out the money to Universal in turn for a so-called “complete” series when we all know that isn’t the case.

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