It's been too damn long. Hope you're all well.
Apologies for the absence, a major (life) project took over and limited my availability to the more important things (i.e this !) so severely that many things had to take a back-seat and unfortunately this was one of them.
However, Phoenix like, I return !
Anyone who picked up any of the previous Alien discs will know that quality is the name of the game as opposed to a quick turnaround.
I totally agree with tb1971 that we got sidetracked from the original intentions but it all comes down to time/willingness/content/promises - you've always backed up what you've promised as has many other members of this board (jonno, triffid, ash etc) however a lot of the archival material was waiting for promised better versions/new transfers etc from others that never materialised. So it just hung in limbo with a lot of quality items unable to be rounded out since they only amounted to a few 10s of minutes of material as opposed to a healthy disc worths. Not an excuse really, more of a frustration.
On a bright note the feedback from Alien Redux was fantastically enthusiastic and spread round a large network of fans to the extent that someone that I worked with professionally recently enthused about it not knowing that I had anything to do with the project in the firstplace !
triffid & Jonno - good to see you are still around too !
digitalfreaknyc - indeed there was a NTSC Evolution disc made, I'm suprised it didn't reach you via the usual contacts/methods, suffice to say there is one here with your name on it - I'll send you a PM.
Hola to bigrob and ash595 - apologies I never got back to you in the last few months, but will be a far improved correspondent now certain things are sorted out.
I'm very happy to work with Jonno to get this thing back on track. CBS Aliens was finished as a disc, just needed a menu and front-end (which was taking the most time to do as those that have seen the first Appendice discs will probably understand !) it could be rolled out as Disc#3 - the quality isn't great, though would be going down the fan edit/re-cut route again. More of an interest to see with the original adverts in place and the edit that CBS chose (most of the Extended Edition reinstated and language cut) - I'm happy to be led in whichever way you'd like to go. tb's material is so good that it needs to be put out soon, but it would be great to have the sufficient support material in place to do a disc per film.
Right, talking over. Down to action. Jonno - emailing you now...