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What’s the official word on “preservations” of various materials, such as free bonus dvd’s (such as the discs given out by Best Buy, Target, Circuit City, etc). I’m referring to the dvd’s like the Star Trek Bonus discs from Best Buy, Friday the 13th’s “Jason Forever” disc from Best Buy, etc, etc. I’m not asking for these, I’m just curious where we stand as far as sharing these? Is it allowed? It seems to me that it fall under the same rules as bonus materials found on laserdiscs (like Star Wars), but I could be wrong.

–Rick

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There was a bonus DVD that came on the ROTS DVD at Wal-Mart, too.

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One of baby hum's releases is sourced from a disc given away with a UK newspaper, and I remember there was talk about torrenting a James Bond car chase compilation disc that was a freebie with Top Gear magazine.

As long as it's material that isn't legitimately available to buy anywhere else, I don't have a problem with the sharing of such discs.

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Thanks for the clarification! I have quite a few of these bonus dvd's. All of the ST: DS9 and TNG bonus discs, The Friday the 13th"JASON FOREVER" disc from Best Buy. I also have the bonus Buffy dvd, Walmart's Star Wars dvd, and quite a few others. I had been thinking that some others may be looking for these for projects they were working on, but didn't want to post anything against the rules. I'm also looking for a few of these myself.
-Rick
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Oh man, just love DS9. Have all the seasons but not the bonus discs. What sort of stuff is on them? Anything really good?
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ADMINS: I believe this thread probably belongs in another topic. Feel free to move it. Thanks!

Hey Owen.... yeah, DS9 rocks! Definitely my favorite ST series. I honestly haven't watched the bonus discs yet for DS9 (just recently picked them up on ebay). Here's the list of what's on them:

Season 1: The Deep Space Nine Scrapbook: A fascinating look at the creation and launch of DS9. Features rare archival cast and crew interviews, and behind-the-scenes footage.
Run time: 14 minutes
Season 2: Quark's Story: A comprehensive look at the character Quark and the origin of Ferengis.
Run time: 11 minutes
Season 3: The USS Defiant: An in-depth look at the 'tough little ship' that debuted in Season 3 and helped change the dynamic of the series and its characters.
Run time: 10 minutes
Season 4: Deep Space Nine Chronicles: Has 2 features ('Bob Blackman's Designs of the Future' and 'Sketchbook: Jim Martin').
Run time: 48 minutes
Season 5: Has 2 features ('Deep Space Nine Sketchbook: John Eaves' and 'Ferengi Culture').
Run time: 17 minutes
Season 6: Has 3 features ('Inside "ONE LITTLE SHIP"', 'Ferengi Rules of Acquisition: The Beginning', and 'Ferengi Rules of Acquisition: The Sequel').
Run time: 17 minutes
Season 7: Has 3 features ('Special: Crew Profile: Ezri Dax', 'Morn Speaks', and 'Sketchbook: John Eaves').
Run time: 24 minutes

I also have all of the following Bonus DVD's (all original copies):
All bonus discs from 7 seasons of ST: TNG from Best Buy
Friday the 13th Best Buy Exclusive: "JASON FOREVER"
Grindhouse: Death Proof exclusive 3rd disc from Best Buy
HEROES exclusive Eighth disc which was a Target Exclusive
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Exclusive Bonus Disc includes All-New Buffy roundtable discussion, never-before-seen featurettes and more
Total Movie Magazine Issue #1 Exclusive, which features the only DVD of TROOPS
Movie FX Magazine Issues #7 and #8, which features Batman: Dead End and the Making of Batman: Dead End
Dave School's Batman: New Times - this dvd was a promo given away by Dave School and features Minimates (Lego-type) toys that are animated and features the voices of Mark Hamill, Adam West, and more.

I know I have lots more, but this is all I can think of off the top of my head. I'm looking to gain copies of ST: Enterprise Bonus dvd's and Voyager Bonus dvd's. Will gladly swap, or PIF the ones that I have. Just PM me.

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the new star trek the next generation region 1 set has all of the so called best buy bonus discs that were already included in the uk sets.

Plus a new bonus disc celebrating the 20th anniversary. cheaper than the other sets. a good deal unless you were scammed by paramount and bought the earlier releases.



people that already own the older releases should be able to get it seperately. they should sell it.

or they could at least offer the bonus features as a paid download like itunes or something.

Paramount's greed is rediculous selling the HD season 1 for star trek tos remastered for over 200 hundred bucks. they already have HD for enterprise on HDnet but no HD-DVD. i never bought the boxsets because 120.00 dollars a season is just too damn rediculous. and they said the reason why enterprise was cancelled and not revived was because of the lackluster dvd sales, lol. gee i wonder why they pretty much buried it under that hundred and twenty dollar pricetag. duh.

the HD revisions of tng and ds9 and voyager as well as the 10 films cannot be far behind. as well as the earlier enterprise not flmed in HD. TNG as far as i know was edited on videotape that is going to make its overhaul a lot harder than simply scanning and cleaning up old 35mm camera o-negs like tos. Sure the live action was most likely shot on film but the episodes final effects and editiing done on video. they would have to pretty much start from stratch and recreate the episodes using the video as a guide.

The special buffy disc in that giant boxset and the rambaldi alias box for the bonus disc of alias is lame because if you already own the seasons you are shit out of luck.

i know that as soon as lost is finished jj will probably have a disc exclusive to the uber lost boxset further irritating fans.

Kinda like universals double dip on season 1 of galactica and the mini series. you had to buy the season twice if you wanted the bonus material and commentary and if you already owned the bare bones bestbuy uk version region 1 you were pissed to have to plunk down another 50.00 bucks for them.

their are many bonus materials on tos of trek that are only other regions than region 1. supposedly germany or some shit got all the stuff we did not making fans that wanted such material to invest in imported sets.

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