From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V1 #72 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Tuesday, December 18 2001 Volume 01 : Number 072 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [chakram-refugees] Saturday Night Live rebroadcast and Xena kites [Stepha] Re: [chakram-refugees] Xena on DVD UPDATE [Stephanie ] [chakram-refugees] USA TV has a new owner ["Cheryl Ande" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:38:01 -0800 (PST) From: Stephanie Subject: [chakram-refugees] Saturday Night Live rebroadcast and Xena kites Saturday Night Live, hosted by Lucy Lawless, musical guest Elliot Smith, will be shown on Dec. 28 on Comedy Central. I got this off of TV Guide, so I hope it's reliable. Also, moping around the mall today (my most favorite place, yay), wandered into the Dollar Tree, right to the toy aisle (where else?), where I found a couple of Xena kites. If you're dying for a kite and have one of these stores nearby, might wanna go check. Or if you want to email me personally, we could probably work something out (cost and shipping only, of course). Ciao, S. Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:11:10 -0800 (PST) From: Stephanie Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] Xena on DVD UPDATE - --- Gabsfan@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 12/14/01 9:46:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, > outback@creationent.com writes: > > << These DVDs are for the U.S. and I expect that if sales go well, > they will > release seasons one through five as well. >> > > WOOHOO!! (Doing happy dance! ) Thanks for the news Sharon. > I've been > hoping for the Director's cut DVD for FIN. Plus, it's ABOUT TIME the > US got > DVDs. Yeah, DVD has been surprisingly slow to get a choke hold on the market. Which it should. Superior picture, superior sound, less long-term wear hazards, bonus footage. I guess it's b/c recorders aren't really available to the masses yet, but now that prices are coming down and demand is skyrocketing, I don't see that being far away. That's what I'm holding out for, but until then, I'd rather buy Xena DVDs from Creation instead of Xena VHS tapes from Davis Panzer, any day. (I remember things they said would never catch on - like VHS tapes, from the old Beta-sized, and CDs, because of their size - and things they swore would catch on like wildfire - like laser discs & players, the grandpa of the modern DVD. Gawd. Does that date me?) If I was going > to buy > just one season of DVDs, it would be Season Six because it was a > great > Gabrielle/Renee season. Season VI would be a fantastic starter. The cinematics of Friend In Need is really something I wish I could have seen in a theater, but the prospect of seeing it on DVD (my uncle has a whopping digital setup!)... WOW. I have the same feeling about seeing Destiny, all the Borias epics, and Fallen Angel and Motherhood and Sacrifices and Bitter Suite and One Against An Army and The Gauntlet and Armageddon Nows and Adventures In the Sin Trades and When Fates Collide and oh oh oh I could go on and on. Put my vote in for all seasons on DVD, Sharon. S. Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 19:23:47 -0500 From: "Cheryl Ande" Subject: [chakram-refugees] USA TV has a new owner USA Studios has been acquired by Vivendi a French company. I just heard this on ABC news. So now Vevidi owns USA and Scifi and I assume some part of Xena. I hope this doesn't hold up the DVD release. I don't know why it would but I'm generally pessimistic about things. CherylA ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 21:25:46 -0500 From: "Lee Daley" Subject: [chakram-refugees] Random thoughts I was testing out the DVD player on a laptop today, so I grabbed "Practical Magic". Noticed for the first time that Stockard Channing (Rizzo from "Grease") player Aunt Frances. May the luck of playing Rizzo follow through to Lucy, that 30 years from now she can get rich roles like this. LeeD ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 22:30:02 EST From: Gabsfan@aol.com Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] USA TV has a new owner In a message dated 12/17/01 7:14:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, cande@sunlink.net writes: << USA Studios has been acquired by Vivendi a French company. I just heard this on ABC news. So now Vevidi owns USA and Scifi and I assume some part of Xena. I hope this doesn't hold up the DVD release. I don't know why it would but I'm generally pessimistic about things. >> Actually, I believe that Vivendi also owns Universal. So, this could be a good thing. Perhaps the new owners will be more interested in doing a XWP movie. Too bad this didn't happen last year at this time when they were considering doing some TV movies after the series finale. Of course, if they did want to do a movie with Lucy & Renee (which is the only XWP I'd want to see), they will have to wait at least till late next summer or fall to start shooting which would mean that we wouldn't see a XWP movie released until late 2002 or early 2003. Debbie Gabsfan@aol.com "I'll rise, but I refuse to shine." Gabrielle - X:WP "Been There, Done That" ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 00:03:43 EST From: Trek4u269@aol.com Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] Xena on DVD UPDATE One big reason DVD hasnt caught on faster is the lack of RECORDABILITY. Joe and Jolene average person cannot watch xena, startrek, buffy, dark angel, alias, smallville, or any other show on television and record it onto DVD. Therefore...your vhs library continues to grow and you dont put your vhs playerr to rest....unlike cassetes and other replacements that offered all the features of the technology they replaced. DVD wasnt introduced with ability to watch as well as record (unless you bought a machine that did and paid greatly for it) I love DVD and cannot wait for xena on DVD ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 00:07:52 -0500 From: meredith Subject: [chakram-refugees] os/alias marathon Hi, For those who have been wanting to check out _Alias_ -- that kickass new show where Gina Torres has a recurring role -- you have a chance on New Year's Day. Starting at noon on January 1, the Family Channel (which ABC just acquired from FOX) will show all 10 episodes back-to-back. Must remember to set TiVo to catch the first three episodes, which I missed the first time around ... ======================================= Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth "an eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind" -- mahatma gandhi ======================================= Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://www.smoe.org/meth/muzak.html ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V1 #72 *************************************