Caprica-L&#39;intégrale de la série [Blu-Ray]

Ce produit était absolument incroyable. Les écrans de menu sont magnifiquement réalisés. Une version est utilisée sur les disques 1, 3 et 5 ; une autre version est utilisée sur les disques 2 et 4. La première montre des scènes sur Caprica ; la seconde montre des scènes à New Cap City et V-World.

Bien entendu, le film pilote (seule la version étendue est incluse) et tous les épisodes sont en haute définition, ce dont nous avons été privés aux États-Unis. Tous les suppléments de la version américaine sont inclus, à l'exception du vidéoblogue "L’Évolution Capricaine". (Bien que cela figure sur le menu, il s'agit en fait du vidéoblogue "U-87".)

L'un des principaux avantages, le facteur décisif pour moi dans l'achat de cette version, est qu'ils ont inclus les partitions de chaque épisode. Il ne s'agit pas de pistes musicales isolées. Au contraire, vous pouvez entendre les partitions complètes des épisodes - la musique extraordinaire de Bear McCreary - sur fond visuel de la planète Caprica suspendue dans l'espace et tournant très lentement.

Beaucoup de soin a été apporté à la conception du coffret blu-ray "Caprica : l'Intégrale de Ia Série". Je ne saurais trop le recommander à tous ceux qui ont apprécié la série.

Byl

Impeccable

Commenté en France 🇫🇷 le 23 juillet 2022

Conforme à l'attendu, un must cette série !

Quel dommage concernant l'annulation de la saison 2...

B. Yves

Commenté en France 🇫🇷 le 13 janvier 2012

Caprica est une série relatant l'histoire de cette planète une soixante d'année avant les évènement de "BattleStar Galactica" et aussi de l'origine des Cylons. La série, assez mature, traite de thèmes comme le terrorisme, la religion, la vie après la mort... Les personnages sont assez surprenants dans le sens où ils ne sont par forcément manichéens. Il y a pas mal de rebondissements et la série est intelligemment écrite et donne à réfléchir sur l'avenir ou sur d'autres thèmes comme ceux évoqués précedemment.

Certaines personnes ont l'air de reprocher le manque d'action. J'ai envie de leurs dire que l'on est pas dans 24 heures chrono( série que j'adore également ) et qu'il était difficile de construire un avant "Battlestar Galactica". En effet, ceux qui ont vu cette dernière savent à quoi les évenements narrés dans "Caprica" vont aboutir et sont sûrement pressés de savoir, le plus vite possible, ce qu'il en est. D'où cette relative impression de lenteur.

Les auteurs ont préféré créer une série avec de solides bases, en décrivant cette planète, la situation politique, la vie des habitants au quotidien, la technologie et l'architecture, etc. Puis les évenements qui vont donner naissance aux Cylons... Cela sert à étoffer toute la saga et donne une autre vision de ces "machines".

Après il faut aussi savoir qu'il aurait dû y avoir une deuxième saison de Caprica. Mais celle-ci fût annulée à cause de résultats d'audience non suffisants pour SyFy, la chaine qui à produit la série. Et effectivement, quand on voit ce que la suite nous préparait, je suis vraiment dégouté ^^. Il manquera, du coup, un maillon de l'histoire entre Caprica et Battlestar Galactica. Vraiment dommage.

Pour conclure, une excellente série de part la variété des thèmes présentés, intéressante et intelligemment écrite et mise en scène.
Quant à la qualité du blu ray, je l'ai trouvé excellente. L'image bénéficie d'une excellente définition, malgré la présence d'un certain grain, mais voulu à l'image de Battlestar Galactica et de moult bonus.

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For English and US customers

J. Bongiorno

Commenté en France 🇫🇷 le 26 mars 2013

As many are learning, much to their chagrin, France has the only available blu-ray version of this set. The question is, can fans in the U.S. watch this?

First off, the show is brilliant, far better than critics gave it credit for. The show also looks fantastic on blu-ray, and yes, there is an English DTS audio track, which is very good.

But I wanted to speak more on whether or not those in the U.S. should purchase this. Here's what you need:

1. If you have a blu-ray player, make sure it can play different blu-ray regions (in this case, region B). You can get a hack for some players, but those in the U.S. will find it harder to do so for blu-rays. Your best bet, if you enjoy content from the U.K. and Europe is to get a dedicated blu-ray player that is already region-free (do a Google search; there's Bombay Electronics and 220 Electronics).

2. If you live in the U.S., see if your TV converts PAL to NTSC (50hz to 60hz). If it doesn't, you'll need a blu-ray player that can internally do that. You can find a list of players which do at bluray.com. I wouldn't bother with converters.

3. Caprica is presented in 1080i/50i. Make sure the blu-ray player can convert that to 60hz (the U.S. TV standard). Again, look for the forum on bluray.com which lists them.

It's worth the investment (and region-free blu-rays aren't THAT expensive) if you enjoy movies and TV shows from the UK or Europe. Otherwise, Caprica is available on two DVD sets in the U.S.

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David P.

Utterly fantastic series

Commenté au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 le 28 octobre 2013

For some reason the only place Caprica was released on Blu-ray was in France, but after having watched (the re-imagined) Battlestar Galactica on in high-defintion I didn't want to watch Caprica in standard-definition, so I dusted of my Tricolore text book and plumped for this one.

Despite all of the menus and options being in French, I found the discs mostly easy to navigate (with my basic and rusty GCSE French). Some resellers offer translation sheets for those who are totally unfamiliar with French.

Just as with BSG, Caprica was shot with a subdued colour palette, often with a lot of film grain, but there is a distinct difference between the shots in the real world and the shots in V World. This means that the disc is not reference quality, but it is very good indeed as is the lossless 5.1 audio (both for English and French). Being made on a much lower budget than BSG some of the CGI is a little bit plasticy looking in places, but this doesn't detract too much from the overall look and feel.

The show itself was one of the best sci-fi shows I've watched in years, though the shows pacing means that watching a few episodes back to back is probably the most rewarding way to watch it. Despite the show being cancelled after the first season, the series wraps up in a rewarding way, with no dangling cliffhanger.

If you enjoyed BSG, then I think you'll love Caprica.

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Bike buyer

No BSG

Commenté au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 le 25 juin 2014

I thought this was going to be the whole 1st series - it is just the first part. A bit disappointing. But to be honest I could kill time watching this but it doesn't' come close to Battlestar Galactica.

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Amazon Customer

Wrong region

Commenté au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 le 10 février 2018

Didn't realise it was.ntsc so cant play it

MarkP

Like Battlestar Galactica

Commenté au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 le 5 novembre 2015

Like Battlestar Galactica, this is an extremely well made series. It is unfortunate that it only ran for a single season.

DomTH

An underrated gem

Commenté au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 le 17 janvier 2013

After it became clear Caprica was never going to get a satisfactory Blu-ray release, I decided to import the series from France, which seems to be the only place it's available in HD on home video.

I'd seen the first nine episodes on Sky One, but as the US Sci-Fi/SyFy/The Sci-Fi Channel split the season in two, I missed the second half of the show. It's the story of Admiral Adama's immigrant family in their poverty-ridden early days on Caprica and their tragic links with the wealthy Greystone family, who create the Cylons about 58 years before the start of Battlestar Galactica.

As the first prequel to the revamped 2003 version of Battlestar Galactica, the show has a lot going for it: a great cast giving superb performances, generally excellent effects and the opportunity to understand how the decadent society of the colonies was prone to both vulgarity and criminality leading to its downfall. Caprica is the Galactica equivalent of uncovering the murals in Pompeii!

Pacing is the show's big problem. The original pilot (literally) opens with a bang and the fallout from it. But the next several episodes really drag. It's less of a problem in a box set, but was disastrous on a weekly basis. Annoyingly, in the second half of the show's run, things really pick up. Certain supernatural aspects from Galactica return, the Matrix-esque scenes in the virtual world of New Cap City are wild and everything ties together to make a terrific climax for the season, also explaining some perceived inconsistencies with BSG... but by then the show had been cancelled. A second season would have been very good, I think, and the show could have really blossomed. Kudos as ever to Bear McCreary for his mostly-unreleased score.

The only other thing to note is that the first episode on the Blu-ray set is the original pilot version, not the broadcast first episode. The differences are minor: there is a little more graphic nudity and violence, certain visuals were changed, such as the Greystone Industries building and a shot establishing Gemenon as Caprica's sister planet. A couple of sequences were reshot for broadcast, but the changes are really slight.

As for the discs themselves, the (very attractive) menus are in French only and discs default to French audio, with optional English audio with removable French subtitles. The sound on my TV is absolutely fine, with no one element overpowering the other.

The video quality is stunning: it's pin-sharp and colourful when it needs to be and grainy and contrasty in scenes set in New Cap City.

I would caution that this release is sourced from 1080i50 broadcast versions. The original version would have been 1080p24. The interlaced transfer is still gorgeous, but is subject to speed-up issues. I can't tell if the audio has been pitch-corrected to compensate. But people in countries where TVs only handle 1080p24 and/or 1080i60 should beware.

I very much recommend this release to anyone in the UK who wants an HD version of the series. It has its minor flaws - the 1080i50 issue and the lack of a broadcast version of the first episode - but is more than made up for by the quality of the series. In light of there being no official US or UK release, this is the version of Caprica to buy!

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