Hades on DVD

CIC staff member Cpl Hades posted some brilliant observations on oddities surrounding the Wing Commander IV DVD to alt.games.wing-commander. Submitted, for your approval...

So what did I notice? Well a few things... for instance, while most screens are the full width of the screen and in "letterbox" format, odd bits of scenes (such as the start of SC_3370A.VOB) aren't the full width of the screen. Whereas odd bits of other scenes (I only actually noticed this in SC_2490A.VOB) were completely full screen. Would have been nice if the whole disk was full screen like that, but I guess we'll make do with like 10 seconds of full-screenness :) Oh, and some scenes just don't have any sound (SC_2470C.VOB among others)

Anyone remember the introduction to the Speradon missions where you see the inside of the shipyard and it's making Bearcats? Well it isn't in WCIV DVD. Oh well.

Also there's some odd text on the screen during at least one briefing. LOAF says that it was included in the unofficial hintbooks as "Border Worlds poetry", but since I don't have those hintbooks, I'll just paste what I could read of it here:

"...down the the spiralling drains of desire drowning dying to breathe your air before the darkness settles in. Ahh. if I could wake next to the golden green pools of your eyes in the liquid hazel dreams of my imagination someday in the distant near future you ????? return to me in my dream once..."