Posted by Gunther Gloop on 06/04/07 10:04

"G Bell" <gbell@holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> "Turbohat" <bob@bob.com> writes:
>
>>I'm after the R1s of BSG season 1 and 2.
>
>>DVD Pacific seem cheap. Anyone know if they send genuine US products or
>>the
>>bilingual abominations that are some Canadian releases?
>>Also, do they use sturdy boxes or jiffy bags (worrying about crushage in
>>transit)
>
> Canada is constitutionally bilingual live with it. I bought four packs
> of Maple cookies coming home last week the packaging was bilingual they
> didn't taste any worse than if they had purely English language
> packaging.
>


While I agree with the sentiment, I think these bilingual covers spoil a lot
of the work done in presenting a nice overall package. People spend their
lives working in designing covers/posters/whatnots to what is (hopefully)
its optimal/most appealing layout.

Whether I was French or English speaking, I wouldn't be happy with the
squashed and over-abundance of text all over these boxes. It ruins the
aesthetics.

Their sole reason is to please 'both sides', but to my mind they end up
pleasing neither -and pissing off most.
If they had reversible French/English covers it'd make most sense to me, but
even French on front covers/ English on the rear (or vice/versa) would be
nicer looking than the PC abominations that assault the eyes of any
right-thinking person.

I do agree that the content is what counts by the way -and perhaps I'm being
a bit over the top above, but still, in & of themselves, those covers stink
whatever way you look at them.

-Kevin.


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