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Davey and Goliath: The Lost Episodes

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Davey and Goliath what can you say, a great tradition and
good lessons for kids. Even though outdated the work
that went into these stories is fascinating. Watch out
for quality keep receipts and wait until you watch them
to see if they really work,one D&G DVD skipped and kept
stopping and starting.

Hey, Davey and Goliath are great, but this DVD was described wrong in a way that influenced my purchase decision, and then I found an amateur mistake on the menus.

First, the description has it as wide-screen 1.66:1, which was strange to me because I couldn't imagine why they'd been made in wide screen, but if it were it would sure be cool, so I ordered this version. Oh yeah, this one is eight dollars less than the other one!

So, I get them and they're the typical 1.33:1, and then when I put this DVD in a computer a baffling screen comes up that says "PLAY ALL EPISODES" without the little selection boxes to the left, which would have changed the meaning to "PLAY ALL" or "EPISODES". This happens in both my Dell installed DVD player and in Windows Media Player. I seems they didn't test the menus to see that they stayed consistent between computers and consumer electronic DVD players.

Now I put it in the DVD player, and find that my son has seen all the episodes except the last one, "Whatshisname". We get into the second EPISODES screen and click on "Whatshisname" and "Down on the Farm" comes up. I double check it, and it seems that there is an error on the menu screens. You can only get to "Whatshisname" by beginning another episode and hitting chapter skip until you get to "Whatshisname". So there's an amateur mistake that would have been caught had anyone bothered to play test the menus before running off thousands of copies.

The bottom line, there's two versions of this out there, and I'd say get the other one. Rather that reward this kind of incompetence, I'm sending this one back.