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General		Extras
Category	Comedy	Music Video-I'll Be There For You-The Rembrandts
Rating
Year Released	1995
Running Time	174:18 minutes
RSDL/Flipper	Dual Sided	Cast & Crew
Start Up	Menu
Region	2,4	Director	Michael Lembeck James Burrows Peter Bonerz Robby Benson Gail Mancuso Kevin Bright
Studio Distributor	Warner Home Video	Starring	Jennifer Aniston Courtney Cox Lisa Kudrow Matt Le Blanc Matthew Perry David Schwimmer
Case	Transparent Amaray
RPI	$36.95	Music	Michael Skloff

Video		Audio
Pan & Scan/Full Frame	Full Frame	English (Dolby Digital 2.0 , 192Kb/s)
Widescreen Aspect Ratio	None
16x9 Enhancement	No
Original Aspect Ratio	1.33:1	Miscellaneous
Macrovision	?	Smoking	No
Subtitles	English French Finnish Danish Swedish Norwegian Dutch Icelandic English for the Hearing Impaired	Annoying Product Placement	Yes, slightly
		Action In or After Credits	Yes, every episode has action during the end credits except for the cliffhanger (Episode 24)

    The episodes on this DVD are Episodes 17 - 24 of Series 1.

    The One With The Two Parts-Part 2 (21:50). This is a continuation of Episode 16, found on the second DVD of this series. Joey is falling for Ursula, Phoebe's twin sister, but Ursula is uninterested. It is left to Phoebe to attempt to save Joey's feelings. Rachel sprains her ankle and ends up in an Emergency Room impersonating Monica. Two very attractive doctors attend her (George Clooney and Noah Wylie from ER) and Monica and Rachel end up going out with them, but not as themselves.

    The One With All The Poker (21:49). The girls resolve to learn poker and try to beat the boys at their own game. Rachel tries very hard to get a job as a buyer for Sachs.

    The One Where The Monkey Gets Away (21:46). Rachel babysits Ross' monkey and lets him escape, sparking a building-wide search, including a quasi-evil animal catcher. Barry (Rachel's ex-fiance) announces his engagement to Mindy (Rachel's ex-maid-of-honour).

    The One With The Evil Orthodontist (21:45). Barry's engagement leads to sparks flying between Rachel and Barry again, much to Ross' chagrin. Meanwhile, our Friends find a neighbour across the street spying on them with a telescope. Chandler has the date of his life and is upset when she doesn't call him back.

    The One With The Fake Monica (21:47). Monica's credit card is stolen, and Monica is jealous of the high life that the thief is leading. She tracks down the thief but instead of turning her in, they become good friends and Monica gets to let her hair down for a while. Ross' monkey grows ever more amorous as time passes and has to be sent off to a zoo.

    The One With The Ick Factor (21:48). Rachel has sexual dreams involving Chandler and Joey, but not Ross, which upsets Ross no end. Monica meets and dates a younger man...younger than she thinks.

    The One With The Birth (21:46). Self-evident from the title of this episode, this is the episode in which Carol gives birth to Ross' son. However, the constant bickering of Ross and Carol's partner lead to them being stuck in a closet with Phoebe as the critical moment looms. Joey finds himself coaching a single mother through her labour.

    The One Where Rachel Finds Out (21:47). Also self-evident from the title, this is the episode where Rachel finds out that Ross is in love with her, but not from Ross, who is on his way to China at the time. Joey volunteers for a fertility experiment which sees him abstaining for two weeks, much to the delight of his amorous new girlfriend Melanie. This episode is left hanging as Ross returns from China with Rachel waiting for him at the airport...

Video

    The transfer is presented in an aspect ratio of 1.33:1. It is not 16x9 enhanced. Four episodes are present on each side of the DVD, which is not clearly labelled in regards to which side is which.

    The transfer is soft, and yet sharper than previous DVDs in this series. The last 4 episodes are far better defined than the first 4. Both foreground and background detail is generally clearer on this DVD, making for a more pleasant viewing experience overall. Shadow detail is reasonable, although the great majority of this series takes place on controlled-lighting sets. There is no low level noise.

    In contrast to previous episodes, colour saturation was not particularly problematic with this collection of episodes. The first 4 episodes were strongly saturated and seemed on the verge of oversaturating, but never quite got there, at least certainly not to the extent of previous instalments of this series. The latter 4 episodes were far better balanced colour-wise, and almost looked anaemic and undersaturated in comparison.

    As with previous episodes, strongly red-coloured objects such as jumpers had a habit of taking on either a blue fringe or being discoloured with purple bands. This affected the first 4 episodes far more than it did the last 4.

    There were no MPEG artefacts seen. Aliasing was rarely present, and trivial when it was seen. Subtle cross-colouration was seen at times on Ross' striped shirt during Episode 23.

    The image skipped and wobbled at times in both the vertical and horizontal planes. Whilst some of this was related to unsteady camerawork, other occurrences of this appeared to be as a result of wobble in either the original film negative or wobble introduced at some stage during the transfer process. No occurrences of this artefact were particularly bad, but since it occurred often, it became progressively more and more annoying.

    Film artefacts cropped up occasionally and quite noticeably at times, as when they occurred, they were usually quite large artefacts.
 

Video Ratings Summary

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Audio

    The dialogue was easy to understand at all times, although there were some subtle hints at audio sync problems on occasion, with the dialogue just discernibly lagging behind the video now and again. Outside location dialogue, found only during Episode 19 was muffled and hissy.

    The score by Michael Skloff was generally restricted to the opening theme of the series, but short snippets of music found their way into the latter episodes on this disc, more so than on previous DVDs in this series.

    The surround and bass channels were used in limited fashion by this soundtrack. Music, audience laughter and some subtle ambience occasionally found their way into the rear channel, making this soundtrack a little more enveloping than previous instalments of these DVDs.
 

Audio Ratings Summary

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© Michael Demtschyna (read my bio)
26th September 2000