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Britt was pregnant at the time of the 'Wicker Man' so the rear naked scenes were actually a body double at her request.
The Director's Cut is so much better, you realise how much was missing from the original. Really is a top drawer film. Never tire of seeing Willow strutting her stuff.
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 3:58 am on Sep. 9, 2004
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LocalYokul
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Quote: from jack attack on 12:00 pm on Sep. 9, 2004
So a pirate telling anyone it is better "quality" because it is 9 is full of BS. And unless I am getting a woodie over 9 vs. 5 to check for all the telltale signs, I think it is meaningless.
you should get a woody over DVD9 because I've yet to buy a DVD 9 that was a handycam rip-off  , most of the DVD9s are films that have been out for a while and are obviously copied from an original not just filmed in the cinema or ripped.
I got dicked around with DVD 5s several times and the shops would replace/change them, but it was a pain in the ass like the trip that MN had.
You take back 5 that are sh!te and come home with 2 that are still sh!te, so either you give up or take the time to go back and trade the 2 remaining and hope that they both end up being good quality.
My local shop kept telling me that the DVD9s didn't have this problem, and I finally gave in and started paying the extra 33% to get DVD9s. 
The only one I had a problem with since that was Matrix Revolutions, and that would play on my old non-DTS player but not my new DTS Decoder player. They changed it to another batch from Malay or Indo and it worked fine on both players, just w/o French, Italian, etc, the new one is Bahasa or something lingo & subtitles options, 555
I bought some DVD10s in BKK, and wondered what the dealio was at first, but it was just 2 movies on one disc with no label side. Both sides had a movie on them...
One was First Blood & Rambo, unfortunately it wouldn't play properly and kept skipping, so I've decided to stop buying those DVD10s also, it's just 2 DVD5s.
The shop did change it for me next visit, I traded up to the super long DVD9 of Stephen King's Rose Red
The DVD10 of DreamCatcher & The Core works fine, but I guess it's just like buying any DVD5, a crap shoot
Ironically the talk of ORIGINALs reminds me of when I bought an ORIGINAL DVD for 259 Baht and the thing skipped like crazy about 2/3 into the movie, on both my players & I also couldn't copy it or even read all of it in my DVD-Rom drive of my PC...
Got it replaced with Willard, good flick, but !!
The menu won't work, I have a workaround where I put it in, then hit stop before the menu tries to load. I can then use the GoTo button to start Title 2 which is the film & NOT the menu. The menu will NOT load, just hangs.
and this from two ORIGINALs... hmmm 
These were from Right Pictures which I understand to be legit, but the funny thing is I've seen better with APS discs that are rumored to not be fully legit. :-|
and those ORIGINAL 99 Baht specials are crap, sometimes you find a little hidden gem like LOTR I or II or such for 199, but usually the 99 stuff is just pure sh!te.
and newer films on imported original DVDs are 750 each, no thanks.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 4:29 am on Sep. 9, 2004
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hzink
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Quote: from jack attack on 12:00 pm on Sep. 9, 2004
DVD 9 and 5 have no noticeable quality difference in audio or video according to some websites that have tech discussions. 9 is used when more storage capacity is need for a long film or lotsa extras or many languages.
Not quite so, at least in the case of Pirate DVDs over here.
When RIPping a DVD9, and DVD5 of the same movie, I commonly get the exact same sized result as the extracted file - in other words, they put the DVD5 content on the DVD9, in order to charge more of the 'better' DVD9.
Don't be fooled.
Harry
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 11:12 pm on Sep. 9, 2004
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DrLove
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you should get a woody over DVD9 because I've yet to buy a DVD 9 that was a handycam rip-off
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LY, you simply don't get it.....
The content on the DVD has nothing to do if it's a 5 or a 9.... Just like bargirls!
It seems that most of the Music DVDs are DVD9 now.... (or as it's claimed). True is that all the DVD9s I bought have DTS soundtrack.....
Furthermore, for those who don't know why they're called DVD5 or DVD 9.... it refers to the capacity DVD5 = 4.7 Gb, DVD9 about 9.4.
BTW Funny these ads from Google. We're talking about illegal DVDs but Google thinks we talk about pirate clothes, statues and the likes....
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 11:28 pm on Sep. 9, 2004
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jack attack
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Yurune,
I am completely computer illiterate. I have to have help turning the freakin' thing on. So excuse my ignorance but if a DVD 9 vs 5 is all about capacity, then how can quality be reduced to fit onto a 5? If it doesn't have enough storage it won't fit. So do you mean they edit the film? If so, this may be what you refer to as quality. I suggest that the quality (picture and audio) remains the same but the film may be shorter or missing some parts.
As for "Bubblegum Man from Outerspace" starring Betty Beegrade, did you know she is actually Britt Eklund? And the scene where she is being eaten by the alien, she didn't use a stand-in - that's really her naked body! I heard that was her big break and from there she went onto star in movies like "Wicker Man".
LY,
I saw some of the DVD 10's and had to laugh at the combination of films as you would think they would have more of the collections together ie. Rambo, etc. Instead they had odd films with big blockbusters.
However. again, being the ignoramus I am, 9 vs. 5 - if the film is transferred to digital and has a certain amount of data and the amount will fit the capacity of a "5" then how can a "9" be better? It is the same amount of information just stored on discs of different capacity.
The menu stuff is a pain. I like to just put the movie on and press play instead dancing around trying to figure out language, scenes, trailers, etc. At least that is one good thing about VCD... slap it on and press play.
I noticed in a shop on the 5th floor of Emporium there are a lot of new DVDs for less than BT 500 and plenty for Bt99 like Notting Hill, Pitch Black etc. I don't know about their quality but the title selection was pretty good.
I read an article a while ago about the DVD's not working on certain machines but I thought it was because the region 1 vs. 3 DVD's were the problem.
I like to go the cinema. If I miss a film, I can wait for the original on DVD. I don't have to run to the pirate for a copy today. It costs more but I haven't had any problems with quality. I don't have the huge home theatre system but rather a decent system (TV, DVD player and audio) from Panasonic.
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 11:31 pm on Sep. 9, 2004
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DrLove
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JA, on a DVD9 the sound and/or picture are less compressed. So better quality....
It seems DTS takes up quite lot of space. Although I have DVD5s who have true DTS.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 11:35 pm on Sep. 9, 2004
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Yurune
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JA.........At 100% quality you can get about 2 hours onto a DVD 5.
If you wanna get more on...you have to compress the digital information...or reduce the quality of the picture.
eg...the other day I ripped a DVD 9 onto my hard drive.
It's total capacity was about 8GB. The whole thing could be burned onto a DVD5 (DVD9 burners for home are relatively new). It advised that the quality would be 60% of before.
Using a program called DVD Shrink, I removed the German and French sountrack. Sountracks take up a reasonable chunk of space, subtitles do not.
Having reduced the amount of information I needed to put onto the DVD 5 the program reported it would be able to burn the film to the DVD at about 70% of it's previous quality.
As said before....a DVD 5 can hold about 2 hours of 100% quality footage...a DVD 9 about 4 hours. If a film is more than two hours long and you buy it on a DVD5 then the quality must be reduced and DrLove said by using compression. If a DVD5 can hold a film at 100% quality then there is no benefit in buying it on a 9, unless it actually has plenty of extra features (that are actually worth watching...lets be honest...).
The main reason I can see tto buy 9's (and I do) and I think someone else...maybe LY said this, is that ii have never had a DVD9 be a bad copy (ie cinema job). Last week I had my first ever DVD9 that didn't work. I have Pioneer DVD players in Thailand and UK and both never usually have a problem (unlike my mates Sony which is very temperamental and that JVC that Maximus hasn't plugged in yet!!!)
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 12:47 am on Sep. 10, 2004
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jack attack
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Sheesh! You guys and this techno stuff!
I am curious why you want to rip a movie and put it on a hard drive? If a 9 or 5 is the storage holder, what good is it to put in on the hardrive and take up that space? Why not just pop in the DVD whenever you want to watch it? I am always being told not to use up space on hard drives and to save things to discs.
At the end of the day, I will wait for the original and just slip the disc into my DVD player.
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 4:05 am on Sep. 10, 2004
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Yurune
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Derrrrr...maybe if copying a DVD....rip to hard drive...process...burn to disc....
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 4:15 am on Sep. 10, 2004
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MaximusNaughtinus
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Deeerrrrrrrrrr, you forgot delete from HD
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 4:19 am on Sep. 10, 2004
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