The Wire: Complete Fifth Season - 8/12/08

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04-08-08, 07:38 AM

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The Wire: Complete Fifth Season - 8/12/08

It's up for preorder on amazon.com...
Release Date: August 12th, 2008.

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04-08-08, 08:41 AM

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Awesome.

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04-08-08, 09:12 AM

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Hopefully some decent extras (including the two specials that aired before the season started).

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04-08-08, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by macnorton

Hopefully some decent extras (including the two specials that aired before the season started).

I hope so. I saved them on my DVR in case they aren't included, in which case I'll transfer them to a DVD-R.

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04-08-08, 09:13 PM

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ign.com posted special feature information:

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The Wire – The Complete Fifth Season DVD will feature the following bonus materials:

* Audio Commentary on six episodes with creator David Simon, cast, and crew
* The Wire Odyssey Featurette
* The Wire: The Last Word Documentary

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04-08-08, 09:15 PM

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Must-buy for me...thanks for heads-up!

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04-08-08, 09:17 PM

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Huh...none of the character prologues that played before the fifth season? All three ran about 7 minutes total or so; couldn't have taken up that much space.

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04-08-08, 09:24 PM

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I'm hoping that this is just a tentative list, and there's going to be more (like the aforementioned prologues).

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04-08-08, 09:55 PM

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I'd wager that the prologues will be on the DVD set...

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04-09-08, 09:56 AM

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great news. i wonder if we will get the original packaging for this season, or the slim cases of S4.

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04-15-08, 04:36 PM

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From TVShowsonDVD.com... I wonder how close this will be to the real cover.

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04-16-08, 08:39 AM

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Thats the real cover... Theyve been using the "poster" art for DVD sets since season 3. Its a great looking set.

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04-16-08, 10:39 AM

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Hope that compression problem (or whatever it is called) with that awful pixel-look in season 4 will not happen with season 5.

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04-16-08, 03:37 PM

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Season 4 had the same number of episodes, but one less disc than the other seasons, so they had to compress the hell out of it. With Season 5 being shorter, it shouldn't be as compressed as 4 was.