Nice looking sets of 'Dune' soon to be released in Germany.

www.duneinfo.com/giedi_prime/dvd_mf/index.asp

mind you...at the equivalent of £60 if i was to buy it (Amazon.de) i'll be giving this a miss!!

Wow, those Germans sure love their Dune. Lots of sweet DVD sets coming from there...

Too bad Region 1 seems to be ignoring this title.

Yes...i've recently just picked up the German tin edition of 'Versus' and apart from the actual packaging...the quality of the transfer is a marked improvement over the Japanese R2...it will be interesting to see if the forthcoming R1 SE can match it's German counterpart in this respect.

hmm...

any english reviews on this set..?

Dune??? it's not out until July 24th

If you are referring to the German edition of 'Versus' then not that i'm aware of....there are a couple of screenshots over in a thread i started in the forum over at DVDtimes that show a few comparisons.
I no longer own the Japanese R2 so can't compare directly but confirm that from memory of the transfer the German edition is an improvement.

I was wondering about Dune..

the release date has nothing to do with advance copies sent out for review..

but i'll keep my eyes open for the next month..

thanks for the headsup RichDB10.

I wouldn't expect a package like this to get sent out for review, at least not to many (any?) English-language reviewers.

I have a copy on preorder and will be reviewing it when I get it. In the meantime, I have photos and a brief review of the last German "Paradise Edition" of this title on my Dune page:

http://www.mindspring.com/~dunestuff

Hopefully this will be an improvement.

Where in the hell did they find 2 dvd's worth of extra features for Dune?

I WANT THAT SUCKER NOW!!! its only money, and hey I like the film, and what better edition will there ever be? Amerivca has no chance in the future of a good version, and here in UK theres already 2 crap versions, so Germany seems the best place. Now to find it cheap? or cheaper than 60 quid.

The "Paradise Edition" has quite a number of supplements, much of it text (in German, unfortunately) relating to the production of the movie. There are sections for storyboards and production art, information about previous failed attempts to film the novel by Ridley Scott and Alejandro Jodorowsky, excerpts from songs that make reference to the book, a detailed description of all the differences between the theatrical cut and TV cut, etc.

If anything, I think i'd get the "Spice Collection" [Based on Josh's review, of course..]

Here are the features:

Extras on Disc 3
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Kochen mit Spice (cooking with spice -> best feature ever )
In Front and Behind the Scenes-Featurette
Der Stammbaum der Atreiden (The family tree of the Atreides)
Das Dune Lexikon (Dune lexicon)
Gescheiterte Versuche (failed attempts)
Die Geschichte der Raumfahrer gilde (History of the spaceman guild)
Dune Themenpark
Dune Sammlerstücke (Dune collectables)
Noch mehr Goofs (more Goofs)
Produktionszeichnungen (production drawings)
Geschnitten Szenen ( die nicht in der Kino und TV Fassung enthalten sind ) (deleted scenes which are not included in the film)
The Best of DUNE-Comic
David Lynch Trailershow ( mit allen David Lynch Filmtrailern ) (all David Lynch films)
Der neue NISSAN-Micra-Spot ( Regie David Lynch )
Making of NISSAN-Micra-Spot (The NISSAN-Micra-Spot and the making of)
Trailer zu CHILDREN OF DUNE von BMG im Spätsommer (trailer for children of Dune)
Die Musik zum Film (The music of the film)
Noch mehr Bilder (more pictures)
Noch mehr Infos (more infos)

ca. 200 min.

Disc4
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The complete Soundtrack

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Cheap price here-

http://www.get-the-movie.de/catalog/...oducts_id=7710

I wonder what the EX Vat price is here and if they ship overseas?

I don't think they ship overseas - they have no shipping prices for customers outside Europe and they also don't offer paying with credit card...

Also out of interest..Amazon.de seem to have this listed as being released tomorrow (1/7/03) and Amazon are usually fairly spot on with release dates??!!...but looks like that's not the case in this instance (24/7/03??)

So will this set have forced german subs? as if it does thats just not on at all. I will have to pass on it.

Actually, it looks as if they were spot on.... I received my shipping notice last night.

Really??? i wonder what the deal is there then...other German e-tailers i've checked still have it down as 24th July 2003...it's to be hoped they are indeed sending you the right edition etc.

hardtack, let us know how it turns out..

From the shipping confirmation email:

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unser Vertriebszentrum hat den unten stehenden Artikel soeben
verschickt! Die Sendung geht an:

blah
blah
blah
...

Bestellt Titel Preis Versandt Zwischen-
summe
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1 Dune - Der Wuestenplanet - Perfect Collection [3 DVDs + CD] EUR 68,10 1 EUR 68,10

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Zwischensumme: EUR 68,10
Porto und Verpackung: EUR 15,50
Endbetrag: EUR 83,60
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So hopefully, things should be just fine... perhaps Amazon have some sort of exclusive rights that allow them to ship before other etailers?

Oh, and Rogue588... shall do

I'd be interested on hearing your opinions of this set also hardtack and especially from Josh Z once he receives his as he has got a lot of releases to compare it to and let's hope Marketing Films do a better job than Laser Paradise.

New pics from daFish (dvd-inside.de)

OK..the packaging looks very nice let's hope the actual quality of the discs come up to par.
Incidentally, how do those 4 discs fit into the cases...2 discs stacked on top of each other per case?..or is there some kind of divider/flap in there that i can't make out?

I think this is the mechanism.

Is this the extended cut, or the theatrical cut?