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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1856056, member: 19463"]Should someone mention that there is more than one version of I Claudius out there. I assume the one Steve bought was the Anniversary edition which Amazon has for $33.77 US and which gets good reviews. There are older discs including edits down to what fits on a disk which, reading between the lines on Amazon reviews, should be avoided. </p><p><br /></p><p>I got a kick out of a review that mentioned that the DVD shows problems with the original no one suspected in 1976 because back then we all had lousy little TV's. Now with DVD and 65" screens (I have 32" and I'm a cheapskate) you can see things like the latex masks they used for makeup back then. On a 19" fuzzy TV, it looked like skin; now - maybe not so much.</p><p><br /></p><p>To make this post coin related: Compare the above situation to the complaints we see here sometimes when a coin arrives that was ordered from a Smartphone but looks lousy in hand. When I bid on a coin I see it at at least ten times life size but some of us think of a 4" screen as big.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1856056, member: 19463"]Should someone mention that there is more than one version of I Claudius out there. I assume the one Steve bought was the Anniversary edition which Amazon has for $33.77 US and which gets good reviews. There are older discs including edits down to what fits on a disk which, reading between the lines on Amazon reviews, should be avoided. I got a kick out of a review that mentioned that the DVD shows problems with the original no one suspected in 1976 because back then we all had lousy little TV's. Now with DVD and 65" screens (I have 32" and I'm a cheapskate) you can see things like the latex masks they used for makeup back then. On a 19" fuzzy TV, it looked like skin; now - maybe not so much. To make this post coin related: Compare the above situation to the complaints we see here sometimes when a coin arrives that was ordered from a Smartphone but looks lousy in hand. When I bid on a coin I see it at at least ten times life size but some of us think of a 4" screen as big.[/QUOTE]
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