Starhunter Vol 1

Customer Reviews:

How about a Volume 3?.......2006-02-09

Starhunter is great and the price is definitely right. Now where's Volume 3? We need the remaining episodes! Please give us the rest of season one!

A good, looooow budget sci-fi show........2006-02-06

I saw this in the store one day and picked it up. Volumes 1 and 2 for 10 bucks or so, who could pass that up? Certainly not a sci-fi junkie as myself. As others have remarked the character dynamics and concept (bounty hunters in space) is not radically unlike that of Firefly. And while I find Firefly overrated, it is still a great show. If you're looking for more of the same sort of vibe this is a great one to pick up, and the price is definitely right.

Ok, so the show is predictable and some of the dialog cardboard, but by and large there are some interesting ideas explored in this show which is Canada's answer to Blake's 7.

As for the DVD, well, you get what you pay for. The audio and video are pretty sub-par. It's unfortunate because some of the effects are done rather well and would make for enticing eye-candy.

At any rate, if you're a sci-fi/space opera fan (like I am), you can pick this up for a song and decide whether it's worth the investment to check out the second season, which I hear has much better production values, both in the show and the DVD set.

Better something than nothing.......2006-01-08

Starhunter was a show I discovered by accident because it was being shown at 4am Sunday mornings. I enjoyed it quite a bit and set the VCR to tape it for me. I didn't really get into the 2nd season, but after only a few episodes, I was unable to see it at all because it vanished from the air.

I was happy to come accross the series, and for the price, how could I go wrong? It was a 2-DVD set, 15 episodes in total, 7 on one and 8 on the other.

Yes, like the other reviewers have mentioned, the DVD was very quickly done and lots of compression used. That's why it has 7-8 episodes per disk while my fabulous Wonder Woman DVD Series one only has 3 per disk.

That said, at least I have the episodes to view at all, and the quality isn't too bad. Just annoying pixilation around titles and quickly moving objects. The credits at the end will drive you batty as there is extreme pixilation as they fade up from black.

Looking at the Starhunter website, it shows that there are 22 episodes. Given that the 2-DVD set only comes with 15, it seems that we're out of luck for the missing episodes.

It is a pain that they didn't bother arranging the episodes in order, and that you have to hop from Disk 1 to Disk 2 and back to see them in order, but for the price, I'm not complaining too much.

The disks contain episodes 101 - 113, and 116 - 117. Maybe if we all pester them we can get a 3rd disk with the remaining episodes on them.

I did notice a glitch at the beginning of Episode 2, and it always happens in the same place on my Sony SLV-D300P, but there was no glitch when played on my XP computer. It's only a 1-second pause and so isn't a big deal. You may find similar happenings depending on what DVD player you're using.

As for the show itself, I find it enjoyable. The thread of the father seeking for his son is interesting. Some people call this show really low budget, but it's not like old episides of Dr. Who (which I love anyway).

This seems to be one of the many series that I'd randomly run into in the wee hours of Sunday morning and would watch regularly until they vanished again, like the series which was based on Blade Runner.

Definitely worth checking out, especially given the price.

I give the show a 4 but the production of the DVD a 2, hence the average of 3 which I gave it above.

Disk 1:

106: The Divinity Cluster
112: Frozen
101: The Man Who Sold the World
111: Cell Game
102: Black Light
109: Order
110: Siren's Song
103: Trust

Disk 2:

105: Past Lives
104: Family Values
113: Peer Pressure
116: Good-bye, So Long
107: The Most Wanted Man
108: Half-Dense Players
117: Dark and Stormy Night

All Things Considered, Pretty Good!.......2005-10-25

I received the Starhunter Vol. 1 DVD and I enjoyed it, not
experiencing any video problems that others have mention.
Those problems are probably in their DVD players rather than
in the disks themselves. But I, too, was annoyed that the
shows were placed haphazzardly rather than in the order each
showed was aired in. I was also annoyed that one show, Family
Values, was missing from this disk as it was only the third
show aired and it should have been here.

But aside from that, I am pleased to have Starhunter on DVD
free and uncut since the local station that carried it on TV
had cut out so much just to allow for more commercials. The
DVD is great!

Great series, poor quality of reproduction.......2005-10-09

I loved the series and waited ever since it went off the air to buy the DVDs. They squeezed 8 episodes onto the DVD by using what looks like very high compression. When there is fast motion or a change of scenes there is a chance of it being blocky. The box doesn't have any inserts, the DVD label looks printed on with a poor ink jet. There are no director cuts, gag reels, interviews with the cast. This looks like it was put together to get something out for the fans just to keep them quit. That said, since this is the only thing out there, I guess this is as good as it gets. If you really liked the series you would like having this in your collection. Also, for the price you can't pass it up, all though for the quality I wouldn't pay more.

**********UPDATED**********

Just found the new version at Starhunter - The Complete Series. I hadn't gotten it yet, but I look forward getting a higher quality version. If you are considering getting Vol 1 & 2, you may want to spend a few dollars more and get the new version.

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