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Category | Comedy | None | |
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Year Released | 1999 | ||
Running Time | 87:56 minutes | ||
RSDL/Flipper | No/No |
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Start Up | Language Selection then Menu | ||
Region | 2,3,4,5,6 | Director | Eric Stough
Trey Parker |
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Warner Vision |
Starring | Trey Parker
Matt Stone Mary Kay Bergman Jennifer Howell Isaac Hayes Pam Brady Nico Agnone Clare McShane |
Case | Transparent Amaray | ||
RPI | $39.95 | Music | Adam Berry
Trey Parker Bruce Howell Matt Stone |
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Pan & Scan/Full Frame | Full Frame | English (Dolby Digital 2.0, 192Kb/s)
French (Dolby Digital 2.0, 192Kb/s) |
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Widescreen Aspect Ratio | None | ||
16x9 Enhancement | No | ||
Original Aspect Ratio | 1.33:1 |
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Macrovision | Yes | Smoking | Yes |
Subtitles | French
Dutch |
Annoying Product Placement | No |
Action In or After Credits | No |
The episodes contained on South Park-Volume 9 are Episodes 6 to 9 of Series 3;
Sexual Harassment Panda (Episode 306, 21:59). The South Park third graders are visited by Sexual Harassment Panda who explains the concept of sexual harassment to the kids. Consequently, an escalating series of lawsuits between the children and the school sees the school become very poor and Kyle's father (a lawyer) become very rich.
Cat Orgy (Episode 307, 21:59). Cartman's mother goes to a Meteor Shower Party and Stan's nasty sister Shelley baby-sits. Cartman is in for a miserable night, but Kitty is on heat and is looking for a good time, however and wherever she can get it.
Two Guys Naked In A Hot Tub (Episode 308, 21:59). Mr Mackey is host for the Meteor Shower Party introduced in the previous episode, but in an obvious parody of the Waco fiasco, the ATF have got word that the party is actually a mass suicide cult and plan to raid the party. Kyle is banished to the basement of this party with three very boring third-graders. Finding some women's clothes, they make the most of a bad situation. Meanwhile, Kyle and Stan's fathers feel somewhat experimental...
Jewbilee (Episode 309, 21:59). Again set on the same night as the previous two episodes, Stan and Ike are sent to Jewbilee camp. Kenny, having nowhere else to go, is convinced to accompany Stan so long as he pretends to be Jewish, but he is soon found out. A marauding bear causes problems for the junior scouts - the Squirts.
The quality of the transfer is actually quite good, with no major problems. The image is sharp and clear at all times. Shadow detail is as good as it is going to be considering that this is animation. Low level noise is not present.
The colours were strongly and clearly rendered. In particular, there was no evidence of colour bleed, with all colours stopping exactly where they were meant to stop. There was also no evidence of chroma noise.
I noted no MPEG artefacts whatsoever on this DVD, but I did notice an odd "dot crawl" type artefact. Since it only affected a specific image (the yellow edges of Cartman's hat), I will put this down as an artefact of the NTSC to PAL conversion process that these transfers have presumably undergone. It was certainly not a bothersome artefact, and was really only discernible on close inspection.
Dialogue was always clear and easy to understand, within the limitations of the characters' voices. Cartman's dialogue is hard to understand at times because of his voicing, and the less we say about Kenny's dialogue the better!
There were no audio sync problems with this disc.
The music is credited to various sources, with Adam Berry having the primary credit. The music is generally limited in fidelity and stereo imaging other than the odd fragment which sounded reasonably good.
The surround channel was not used, although the voice of Moses in Jewbilee did have quite a striking and unexpected stereo imagery about it, as did the background sound of crickets at one point in Cat Orgy.
The .1 channel was essentially not used, only adding the occasional parp to the music.
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© Michael Demtschyna
(read my bio)
19th February 2001
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DVD | Denon DVD-3300/Loewe Xemix 5006DD, using RGB output |
Display | Loewe Art-95 95cm direct view CRT in 4:3 mode, via the RGB input. Calibrated with the NTSC DVD version of Video Essentials. |
Audio Decoder | Denon AVD-2000 Dolby Digital AddOn Decoder, used as a standalone processor. Denon AVD-1000 DTS AddOn Decoder, used as a standalone processor. Calibrated with the NTSC DVD version of Video Essentials and the NTSC DVD version of The Ultimate DVD Demo Disc. |
Amplification | EA Playmaster 100W per channel stereo amplifier for Left & Right Front; Marantz MA6100 125W per channel monoblock amplifiers for Left & Right Rear; Philips 360 50W per channel stereo amplifier for Centre and Subwoofer |
Speakers | Philips S2000 speakers for Left, Right; Polk Audio CS-100 Centre Speaker; Apex AS-123 speakers for Left Rear and Right Rear; Hsu Research TN-1220HO Subwoofer |