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• Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 5
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: April 15, 2008
• Run Time: 953 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0012EBV7E
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #190,186 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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JUPITER MOON:GHOST IN THE MACHINE - DVD Movie

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jupiter Moon: The Ghost in the Machine -- "The program is running", April 30, 2008

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Dean Shewring - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jupiter Moon: Ghost in the Machine (DVD)

In 1990, British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) launched a soap opera for their Galaxy Channel, set 60 years in the future aboard an old spaceship called the Ilea orbiting the Jupiter moon Callisto -- and housing Columbus College, a university of space. Episodes were shown three days a week, with a full compilation of those episodes broadcast on the following Sunday. 150 episodes were made in total, with 108 shown before the infamous 'merger' of BSB with Sky.

The idea behind the production was to feature a mixture of emotional angst and the thrill of scientific adventure. The episodes in The Ghost in the Machine contain the most effective merger of both. Ghostly apparitions are haunting the Ilea's students, while an unusual `blip' appears whenever a file concerning an earlier spaceship journey is displayed on a computer. That earlier journey featured the first murder in the Jupiter system. A computer has been programmed for death -- and the program is running...

Just when the mystery is solved and everyone can finally breathe a sigh of relief, comes one of the most shocking events ever to appear on a television screen. Definitely the highlight of the entire series and highly recommended.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What speculative fiction on video should be, September 24, 2008

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Mike Meyer "Pan" (Herndon, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jupiter Moon: Ghost in the Machine (DVD)

This series produced more pleasant memories than all but one speculative fiction video show has in the last decade. It seems that all the others have some "super secret" component: either the heroes have super powers, or super technology, or some super foe to face down - or two or even all three - and they have to keep the public from knowing about them. While this may make the stories more interesting, it makes the characters hard to identify with.

The characters on Jupiter Moon, on the other hand, are for the most part the kind of people you can find hanging out on any college campus: students, both under and post graduate, professors, research staff, and the people involved in running the university. It's just that said university happens to be in a future, and in space, and on a ship. None of these things are unusual in this future. Given the broad range of characters in the show, there should be someone for anyone to identify with - and possibly several someones.

This is much more like the sf I grew up reading than most other things, which are more akin to comic books than real sf. The people seem like real people, and you have to suspend your disbelieve about their environment, not about them. Yes, some of the "science" is a bit hokey, but at least it doesn't often sound like it came from a word processor set on blend. This wouldn't rate five stars if it were a book - the story just isn't that good. But when you compare it against other members of the the medium it's in, it more than deserves them. If only there were more of this, or more like it.

Oh, and in case you're wondering, that one exception is FireFly.

5.0 out of 5 stars Jupiter Moon - Ghost, June 7, 2011

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This review is from: Jupiter Moon: Ghost in the Machine (DVD)

This is a fun, though dated series. It is basically a soap dressed in SF clothing. Little to do with SF issues, which are used only as a stimulus (or backdrop) for the human interaction. The characters are, however, easy to get involved with. The acting is a bit stilted, which in many cases, saves the low budget project from being un-watchable.

I enjoyed it. One should start at the start and watch it in order, as with many soaps, one must keep up with the interplay of characters.