Twin Peaks Gold Edition

[ivyfic]

I've been watching my Twin Peaks Gold Edition set and felt I should just warn people that some of it's menus are a little screwed up. On one of the DVDs, on the individual episode screens, you can't actually hit enter on anything. You can see the screen, but you can't interact. You can still make all the episodes on the disc play, but only by hitting "Play All" from the root menu, then skipping forward. I've also noticed that on most episodes, if you hit forward to skip the credits (and why wouldn't you skip the credits? Dear god, they're the longest, most boring credits I've ever seen) it takes you to right after the credits. But on some episodes, it takes you 12 or 20 minutes into the episode. Since Twin Peaks is not episodic, it's not always obvious you've missed something. I've also noticed that if you're in the first act of an episode, sometimes when you hit the back button it takes you to the start of the episode, sometimes to the previous episode. This has happened to me on other DVD sets, but again, with Twin Peaks it's sometimes less obvious you're suddenly in another episode entirely.

I class all these as minor annoyances, given that the first time I watched Twin Peaks it was downloaded and with that I had to deal with extremely low res, sometimes out of sync dialogue, Danish subtitles and the occasional coding error that would make it impossible to finish the episode. By comparison, this isn't so bad, and I'd still want to buy this DVD set. But since some of you expressed interest in acquiring the DVDs, just thought I'd give a heads-up.

Comments

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

Knowing Lynch, those DVD errors are probably intentional.

[tirtzah.livejournal.com]

The Twin Peaks opening is so peaceful and soothing and... *snooooore*