Question about Warner Home Video DVDs

[Jon Cooke]

I know that WB Home Video usually sticks us cartoon fans with at least one double-sided disc in our Hanna-Barbera box sets (or in the case of YOGI, two double-sided discs). My question is, do they do this with any of their live action TV releases or do just the animated shows get the honor of getting the double-sized DVDs? I know that my ex-girlfriend collects the WB's GILMORE GIRLS DVDs which all come as 6 DVD sets with no double-sided discs.
Just curious...

[ohmahaaha]

I know that WB Home Video usually sticks us cartoon fans with at least one double-sided disc in our Hanna-Barbera box sets (or in the case of YOGI, two double-sided discs). My question is, do they do this with any of their live action TV releases or do just the animated shows get the honor of getting the double-sized DVDs? I know that my ex-girlfriend collects the WB's GILMORE GIRLS DVDs which all come as 6 DVD sets with no double-sided discs.
Just curious...
Hasn't happened to me yet with the "Smallville" Season sets - just as you describe for the Gilmore Girls set, but - it DID happen with "Superman the Animated Series" volume 1.

[TheBlueHombre]

I know that WB Home Video usually sticks us cartoon fans with at least one double-sided disc in our Hanna-Barbera box sets (or in the case of YOGI, two double-sided discs). My question is, do they do this with any of their live action TV releases or do just the animated shows get the honor of getting the double-sized DVDs? I know that my ex-girlfriend collects the WB's GILMORE GIRLS DVDs which all come as 6 DVD sets with no double-sided discs.
Just curious...
Jon:

I own a copy of "Superman: The Movie" on DVD from WHV, and it is a single double-sided disc. Side One is obviously the film and the flip side of the DVD is bonus material. This is the only WHV DVD I own that has the double sided format outside of H-B material.

[Barb Herholzer]

BLAZING SADDLES is a double sided disc (at least the version I have), with the widescreen version on one side and P&S on the flip.

[Jon Cooke]

BLAZING SADDLES is a double sided disc (at least the version I have), with the widescreen version on one side and P&S on the flip.

I forgot that WB did that with their earlier DVD movie releases (one of my mom's first DVDs was a copy of one of the LETHAL WEAPON movies and it was set up the same way). Do they still do that?

[grundle]

The DVDs for the live action "Wonder Woman" TV series of the late 1970s are double sided.

[PlopKat]

The first season of Mad TV also has double-sided discs.

-PlopKat

[rp-j]

WB did that trick with their UK Tom & Jerry sets - most annoying!:mad:


On top of that, the prints were sometimes frankly poor, but on the plus side, we had most of the cartoons with :twoshoes: in their original form, so... darn it, I guess we should be thankful for small mercies...:D

[corey3rd]

i think that the original flippers were done before they adopted the single sided dual layer discs. I have a copy of Godfellas that you had to flip to watch the second half of the film.

[trondmm]

i think that the original flippers were done before they adopted the single sided dual layer discs. I have a copy of Godfellas that you had to flip to watch the second half of the film.

Well, there were many reasons for the flipper discs. But they were using dual-layer discs right from the beginning of DVDs, so that's not really the reason. Availability is another matter, though. There was a massive shortage in production capacity of dual-layer discs the first few years, so in many cases a movie would have been delayed several months if they wanted to release on a dual-layer disc.

Storage capacity is also a factor. A dual-layer disc does not hold twice as much as a single-layer disc. This is usually not a reason for the movies that were split in half, but in the case of movies were you get pan&scan on one side and widescreen on the other, storage capacity is often an important factor.

[trondmm]

WB did that trick with their UK Tom & Jerry sets - most annoying!:mad:

Well, I think there's a very good reason for this. The Tom & Jerry sets were first released as 12 single layer discs. Then after a year or so, they were re-released as 6 dual layer discs. That means that they probably reused the glass masters they used for the original 12 discs. If they were to make dual layer discs, they would have had to produce the new discs from scratch.

[Bricolo]

The first three seasons of The Dukes of Hazzard were double sided discs but Season 4 & 5(Coy & Vance) are single sided discs and I hear tell that Season 6 and up are or are to be double sided again.

Warner released the Marx Brothers Collection with three single sided discs but the two exclusive box set discs were double sided.

All of Gilligan's Island was double sided while Smallville, Lois & Clark, and the Flash were single sided. I believe the coming Adventures of Brisco County Jr. will be all single sided.

I thought they were moving away from double sided discs but the regression in the Dukes of Hazzard has me worried.

[sumnernor]

WB did that trick with their UK Tom & Jerry sets - most annoying!:mad:
The T&J released in German (and french areas) were all single sided. I have a few films that were double sided such as Ben Hur (NTSC and PAL). Also a number of the Pink Panther single films (NTSC) - not the box set. On one side was wide screen and other side full screen. Likewise with the Forbidden Planet (which has not been released in PAL land???) I may have a few more - I don't like them because fingerprints get on them easier.:mad: