Yay... number one in the UK by fenners

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Yay... number one in the UK

POSTED BY: FENNERS
UPDATED: Sunday, April 25, 2004 22:48
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Thursday, April 22, 2004 1:35 AM

Just to let you know tha Firefly is ranked first in the top 10 in sales of TV titles blackstar/sendit.com : one of the biggest (not including amazon) internet stores...

Only ranked 19 on amazon.co.uk

And just to let you know that i never pass a music/video store without going in and puting the firefly DVD'sin prime posistion

Top Ten TV Titles ::
1. Firefly £30.99
2. Buffy 7 £54.99
3. The Complete Flumps £4.99
4. Blake's 7 - Series 1 £29.99
5. Battlestar Galactica £9.99
6. Secret Army £39.99
7. Red Dwarf 4 £12.99
8. Stargate S.G.1 £14.99
9. West Wing 3 £44.99
10. Allo 'Allo 3 & 4 £17.99

Viva la resistance!
:blast

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Thursday, April 22, 2004 4:34 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

Good news indeed. Let's hope it holds that top spot awhile, and sells a bunch of DVD sets.

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

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Thursday, April 22, 2004 4:45 AM

STICKS

Firefly maybe doing well online but retail shops ie w h smiths,woolworths ,mvc havent stocked it.
got mine from virgin megastore in liverpool £29:99.worth every damn penny.one niggle some of the slight pauses are at the start of an episode,sod it ive got it now and aint letting go.

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Thursday, April 22, 2004 6:01 AM

RKLENSETH

Those pauses are suppose to happen.

Oh, and play Cantr II at www.cantr.net.

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Thursday, April 22, 2004 8:13 AM

FENNERS

Look in woolworths its scary the amount of sets they have... also note it is ranked 16th in their rankings

Also seen boxes in MVC, HMV, Virgin, Tesco

HNV in Ipswich has sold out and have re-ordered

You can tell what i did on my tea break today cant you....

Viva La Resistance

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Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:33 AM

GHOLA

Someone here recently posted a thread that the British needed to purge themselves for allowing reality TV to thrive, I think they've done just that.

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Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:11 AM

SPIKEANDJEZEBEL

Blake's 7 is an amazing show too, which I would recommend to anyone who likes Firefly. The basic premise is sort of similar - a small group of criminals/revolutionaries in a ship, fighting against a totalitarian government. Jayne's line "I was aiming for his head" is actually a quote from Avon Blake's 7. (Not sure if it was an intentional homage, but Joss Whedon has mentioned that he watched the show while he lived in England.)

"I like smackin' 'em!" - Jayne Cobb

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Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:29 AM

BRITCHICK

NUmber 1 is pretty amazing, especially as they are charging so much for it!

Well done us - and I hope everyone as a great weekend with their shiny R2 DVDs :)

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Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:57 AM

GROUNDED

I got mine from Play.com for £26.99 - not the cheapest but they're good and reliable. The R2 box is a bit of a weird design and the discs do rattle about a lot but it was worth every penny for the Serenity commentary alone

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Thursday, April 22, 2004 11:13 AM

FENNERS

I havnt got my R2 version yet... nearly payday.
Are the features different?

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Thursday, April 22, 2004 11:19 AM

DEBBIEBUK1

R2 arrived this morning yippee! Only 24.99GBP from amazon. Different packaging but I don't think there's any different content at all. The pictures on the cases of the US version have been put into a booklet, and it's a single case with different "pages" (reminds me of an optical fibre handling system, sad person that I am).

Glad to know there's another fireflyfan in Ipswich, I was starting to wonder if there was only me in East Anglia :-)

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Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:42 PM

PUDOR

Does anyone know how/if the the UK release differs from the US release? I've got 2 region 1 box sets already, and as much as I love the show, there are about a million things that I could more worthily spend my money on than yet another dvd set ;)

Time to provoke all the converts I've made into buying their own copies!

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Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:43 PM

PUDOR

Quote:
Does anyone know how/if the the UK release differs from the US release?

How clever of me. Next time, I read the thread before posting.

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Saturday, April 24, 2004 2:16 AM

KOOKYMOOK

Being an avid viewer of both Buffy and Angel I'm quite surprised I never caught Firefly when it initially aired here in the UK. That aside I don't even recall which sky channel it was on. Could anyone clarify this for me?

Anyway, what with Buffy finished now and Angel's departure very shortly I have been itching for new Joss material (I know it's not new, but it was for me,) so I impulse bought the Boxset from HMV on Monday. All I can say is wow! That being said I am very disappointed in myself for not jumping onto this show back when it needed all the fan support. Nonetheless, I'm very excited about 'Serenity' and can't wait to get caught up in the pre-release buzz.

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Saturday, April 24, 2004 2:39 AM

BRITCHICK

I don't think it was broadcast on Sky... I seem to remember it was on the SciFi channel.

But I may be misrememberin'

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Saturday, April 24, 2004 3:51 AM

JOHNCLARK

No, you aren't misremembering.

It was shown on Scifi in the UK. (That's why I didn't get to see it til the dvd's came out)

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Saturday, April 24, 2004 4:39 AM

DORAN

"Blake's 7 is an amazing show too"

Be warned the final episode may make you cringe in disgust!

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Saturday, April 24, 2004 6:26 AM

SPIKEANDJEZEBEL

The final episode of Blake's 7 makes me cringe in horror, but in the good way! In my opinion, no show has yet topped the finale - I was hoping Buffy would do it, but it didn't quite overcome it. We'll see in a few weeks how Angel does...!

"I like smackin' 'em!" - Jayne Cobb

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Saturday, April 24, 2004 8:00 AM

KERNELM

Actually, based on what I've read, there are a few differences. Namely, it seems the subtitles were done by a different person/company, since instead of [speaking chinese] on the R1 sets, it says [galactic language] on the R2 sets. Also, the R2 sets apparently have all the commentaries subtitled, as well some of the other extra features. *jealous*

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Saturday, April 24, 2004 9:29 AM

DEBBIEBUK1

Actually got around to watching the R2 set a bit yesterday and it does seem to be a better picture, some details are clearer. Also sometimes with the R1 DVDs we get a smaller picture with a black bottom border(this is well known apparently something to do with the conversion).

Strangely the sound also seems a bit better. Maybe I'm just justifying having the two sets to myself, but it was worth it!

My family won't let me watch the commentaries very often so can't comment on those yet.

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Sunday, April 25, 2004 10:48 PM

STICKS

Quote:
Originally posted by debbiebuk1:
R2 arrived this morning yippee! Only 24.99GBP from amazon. Different packaging but I don't think there's any different content at all. The pictures on the cases of the US version have been put into a booklet, and it's a single case with different "pages" (reminds me of an optical fibre handling system, sad person that I am).

Glad to know there's another fireflyfan in Ipswich, I was starting to wonder if there was only me in East Anglia :-)

im originaly from east anglia(now up north)
just thought id add that.

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