Whedonesque : Comments on 18216 : Dr. Horrible DVD kinda "days away from being released".

Well, There's one thing for me to put on the ole Christmas list.

Squuuuuuuuuueeeeeeee!!!

I totally asked for this for Xmas and my sister just mailed to say "I couldn't find it anywhere." Excellent!!!

Now I can happily direct here there. Thank you MattK!

Tarheelfan | November 26, 04:09 CET

Wait. Where on the site does it say that?

Giles_314 | November 26, 04:15 CET

Gah! The homepage has now changed. Perhaps they put it up early by mistake? For anyone who missed it, it was in big white text where it now only says "Soundtrack Now Available."

MattK | November 26, 04:16 CET

I can still see the text. Maybe they were just working on the site...

Valentyn | November 26, 04:17 CET

Awww. Bummer.

Probably a false alarm.

[ edited by Giles_314 on 2008-11-26 04:18 ]

Giles_314 | November 26, 04:18 CET

I see the "days away." My question is, "How many?"

jcs | November 26, 04:25 CET

Text is back
"The DVD is days away from being released!

Make it a perfect holiday gift. Buy one or two or three...

New merchandise will also be available shortly."

Interesting that it says released and not available for pre-ordereing. New merchandise! Whoo-hoo!

Anonymous1 | November 26, 04:27 CET

Yay!! I hope that international shipping is available!

Plus, I wonder what the new merchandise is?

Edited 'cause Anonymous1 beat me to it! :)

[ edited by JenskiJen on 2008-11-26 04:28 ]

JenskiJen | November 26, 04:27 CET

I see nothing.

The One True b!X | November 26, 04:30 CET

I still don't see any text. What's the deal? Anyone else having this problem?

Giles_314 | November 26, 04:31 CET

I could see it before, but now it's gone.

Still, I'm way excited.

Racoon Boy | November 26, 04:37 CET

That was weird. Typed in http://drhorrible.com and the itunes note was there and not the new text. Did a Ctrl f5 for refresh and it was there. Typed in http://www.drhorrible.com and it is still there.

Anonymous1 | November 26, 04:38 CET

I don't get the text with the www, but I do get it without the www.

The One True b!X | November 26, 04:42 CET

I can see the text just fine. It better not be a false alarm, 'cause I havn't seen Dr. Horrible yet and I was really looking forward to it.

Justin | November 26, 04:43 CET

I cleared cookies and internet files a day or so ago. So maybe the new page is not loading on others pcs. CTRL key and F5 seems to work.

Anonymous1 | November 26, 04:43 CET

I have no trouble seeing it, maybe I should do a screen capture? Would it sound too cynical if I pointed out that 365 is a number of days? But I'll have faith and assume we are talking about less than a month, maybe even only a week? Or is that too much to hope?

embers | November 26, 04:43 CET

I'm seeing the new text on both http://drhorrible.com and http://www.drhorrible.com

Anonymous1 | November 26, 04:44 CET

Hmm. I don't see it either. But obviously some have so it's either they were testing, posted too soon, but soon enough that someone thought it worth putting on the official page, or we all are seriously being punked by the j,j,m,z crew. Or the ELE...? Seems raising hopes just to dash them would be right up their alley.

NYPinTA | November 26, 04:44 CET

Perhaps the site suffers from premature merchandisation and can't help itself.

QuoterGal | November 26, 04:46 CET

Someone on Twitter mentioned this this afternoon. He was interested in the League of Evil submissions being announced. I kept waiting for a little more information from @drhorrible on Twitter, but so far zip.

Eric_Curtis | November 26, 04:47 CET

That thing with the www. affecting which version of the page appears happens whenever I update my website. If someone understands it, I would really enjoy an explanation, as it is the bane of my existence.

Giles_314 | November 26, 04:47 CET

Ctrl key and F5 key not helping?

Anonymous1 | November 26, 04:51 CET

I can't see it, though I'm not doubting it's been there. Weird.

snowinhell | November 26, 04:53 CET

embers | November 26, 04:43 CET took a screen capture of it.

Anonymous1 | November 26, 04:57 CET

Now I DON'T get it without the www, but DO GET IT with the www. The reverse of what it was for me five minutes ago.

The One True b!X | November 26, 04:59 CET

I'm not getting it at all, but YAY HOORAY.

Jobo | November 26, 05:12 CET

I jumped over to Internet Explorer (never been there with IE). I can get it with the www, but not without it. Damn, that's strange.

Eric_Curtis | November 26, 05:13 CET

This is all easily explained: the site can peer into our souls, and displays different things accordingly. Only the truly evil can see the announcement, as only they are worthy of knowing the mysteries of the ELE. Those of you who can't see it or are going back and forth, kick puppies for a while; it should come right up.

I, of course, can see it just fine.

ManEnoughToAdmitIt | November 26, 05:21 CET

No longer do the dance of joy.

Jim in Buffalo | November 26, 05:23 CET

I'm getting it!

*Moves to the evil side of the room*

missb | November 26, 05:35 CET

It's like the emperor's new clothes. Some of us are obviously too intelligent to see it.

peacemonger | November 26, 05:43 CET

I can see it too, now. >:) *evil grin*

snowinhell | November 26, 06:01 CET

Okaay.... I did NOT kick any puppies and yet I can see it now. Crap. I'm evil.

The DVD is days away from being released!

Make it a perfect holiday gift. Buy one or two or three...

New merchandise will also be available shortly.

NYPinTA | November 26, 06:18 CET

Some browsers (I've forgotten exactly which, and which versions thereof) automaticly (or can be made to automaticly) "infix" http://foo... to be http://www.foo... which sometimes leads to confusion. As well, some sites automaticly accept foo... as being www.foo..., and others do not. And some browsers will add the www and request the page again, if they detect some kind of error response to a naked foo request.

What the www is really saying is that you want to talk (using http, the HyperTextTransferProtocol) to the WorldWideWeb or www server at foo. There are other possible servers you could talk to at foo: ftp, news, mail, ... (are there still gopher servers?) but the default these days is www.

htom | November 26, 07:17 CET

And now it's gone for me no matter what, www or no www. And they were active on Twitter a little bit ago and said absolutely nothing about it.

Also: Gopher FTW!

[ edited by The One True b!X on 2008-11-26 08:29 ]

The One True b!X | November 26, 08:25 CET

I've changed the URL to the minus the www bit.

Simon | November 26, 08:28 CET

Oh balls. It's gone now. Lalalallalalalalalala.

Simon | November 26, 08:30 CET

I've re-edited the subject line to show that Dr. Horrible likes to play with our minds.

Simon | November 26, 08:32 CET

I can still see it. Even when I try it on Safari, which I never use.

Naked foo requests? I read the funniest things here.

jcs | November 26, 08:38 CET

:( I never saw it. But I think I didn't try until after they removed it, so that could explain it. ;)

cabri | November 26, 08:41 CET

Now I'm once again getting it with www but not without.

The One True b!X | November 26, 09:22 CET

If anybody is wondering - DrHorrible.com is load balanced across two servers, to try to stop it crashing when lots of people visit at one time (anybody remember the launch?).

One of the servers has been updated with the DVD news, the other one hasn't. That's why some people can see it, and others can't.

If Jed is reading, he will want to get that fixed before the DVD launches, to make sure people will be able to see the updated page on launch day to order it.

[ edited by gossi on 2008-11-26 09:25 ]

gossi | November 26, 09:24 CET

Ah. Finally.

cabri | November 26, 09:45 CET

Oh cor blimey guv'nor. This is changing more times than the plot of Heroes. I'll wait five minutes before I check the site again.

Simon | November 26, 09:56 CET

Now you see it ... now you still see it because it's presumably propagated across the two servers.

Yayage. If it's out at the start of December (and assuming there's international shipping - the good kind I mean* ;) then there's a pretty decent chance we furriners might get this in time for Xmas (my Write Environment one arrived this a.m. and only took about 5 [working] days to cross the pond).

* though it makes you wonder about the other kind. Mmmm, France on Italy action - Fritaly's always been one of my favourite ships EVAR.

Saje | November 26, 11:00 CET

Hope so.

10,000th comment

Simon | November 26, 11:16 CET

Talk about using inside knowledge...

*and I prefer Sweden on Finland, Saje: Swinland!

cabri | November 26, 11:21 CET

Okay, this is weird. I can see it on Firefox, but not IE. Does that mean I'm only half evil?

Giles'chainsawchick | November 26, 11:22 CET

If that's the 10,000th comment, what's the 269597 number for? (Not doubting you, just curious.)

ETA: Never mind, figured it out. You were talking locally, I was thinking globally.

EATA: So my confusion explains my previous non sequitur.

[ edited by cabri on 2008-11-26 11:27 ]

cabri | November 26, 11:24 CET

Just like a Swinland fan that is, it's all "big picture" this and "long-term repercussions" that with you guys. Not like we Fritalians at all, with our charmingly downhome parochialism.

(yay, Fake Shipper Wars ! They're the new black, telling you ;)

And yay to 10k, congrats Simon. That'sa lotta commentsa (we Fritalians are nothing if not horribly xenophobic clichés) !

(and quite a healthy number of links too - another 18 and you hit a palindrome BTW, we should probably have a party in reverse. Who wants to start us off by tidying up ?)

Saje | November 26, 11:35 CET

You Fritalians are way too volatile! 'Course, if we Swinlanders got more than 5 nanoseconds of sun a year, we might smile occasionally, too.

Oh, and my congrats, too, Simon. Even my dementia can't dim your achievement! ;)

cabri | November 26, 11:44 CET

It seems I missed all the crazed "Is it or isn't it" madness, but, uh...excited for the DVD!

UnpluggedCrazy | November 26, 12:03 CET

Not working again for me.

The One True b!X | November 26, 12:18 CET

But it's still working for me! (See, evil!)

Which makes me think that it MUST be some kind of weird, bizarro palindromic event, as I'm used to these things NEVER working for me. Shrimp anyone, or don't you know what that is?!

Sage- your comment cracked me up, as I am exactly the kind of person that goes to parties, has a few drinks, and goes into some mad cleaning/tidying/organising frenzy. I'm quite popular at local functions...

missb | November 26, 12:39 CET

Missing this debate is the price you pay for the occassional good night's sleep. And it's not working for me, for what it's worth.

redders | November 26, 12:46 CET

If you look at http://drhorrible.com, you can see it - at least I can!
ETA: Sorry, missed the whole 2 servers thing.

[ edited by Lioness on 2008-11-26 14:46 ]

Lioness | November 26, 14:21 CET

Simon - congratulations on your 10 000 comments! That's one hell of a contribution to this community.

Oh, and I can't see it on either site with IE or Firefox!

catalyst2 | November 26, 14:24 CET

Saw it last night, see it today, no problems. Then again, I've been seeing it in my mind for weeks now, so I may not be the most reliable witness.

C. A. Bridges | November 26, 14:33 CET

Yikes. 10.000. That's, like... a lot :). Congrats, Simon.

Also: yay for Dr. Horrible DVD. I so want it.

GVH | November 26, 14:57 CET

But where? And how? And when? And... what about Naomi?!? ;-)

That's our Simon; he keeps posting and posting... congrats!

OzLady | November 26, 15:00 CET

I don't see any mention of the DVD on the site…

Salocin | November 26, 15:09 CET

Thanks for that explanation, gossi. The mysterious disappearing/reappearing was really going to bug me.

But I think they should have posted conflicting information on each server. Because that would've been really evil.

And thanks for all the commenting and linking, Simon. You're a credit to your fandom. :)

jcs | November 26, 16:00 CET

Salocin, read Gossi's message upthread for an explanation. For which, by the way, thanks! :)

GVH | November 26, 16:03 CET

Oh, you misguided Cabri, don't you know that during a good year we might actually get seven days wotrh of sun?

Damn Swinlanders, the ship has been over 200 years and still they make us study the language. Now that's evil. Not that Fussia/Rinland was much better. I think Finland should just stay single.

(just couldn't stay away from talking about my country's historical relations, International shipping is fun!)

On topic, can't wait to get this sometime in the near future.

Nocticola | November 26, 17:43 CET

Great Googly Moogly Simon!!! 10K is quite a feat. (If you're Babe Ruth then Saje is like A-Rod...given a little time, he's gonna fly by!)

I'm super excited for my Dr. H dvd!

As a side note, my Amazon golden box Chosen Collection just arrived!!! Cant wait to get home and tear off the plastic.

alexreager | November 26, 18:03 CET

Congratulations AlexReager! I just got my Write Environment Joss interview and I'm going to sit down and watch it now! I'm definitely hoping to buy ten copies of the Dr. Horrible DVDs, because everyone I know needs it!

embers | November 26, 20:59 CET

Any chance of DHSAB's release getting added to all those DVD release schedules out there? Or is that only for major distributors?

cabri | November 26, 21:42 CET

And can we get figures on how many sell? Like a counter. Or if numbers are high enough, can http://www.the-numbers.com/ be informed so figures end up on the DVD sales charts.

Anonymous1 | November 27, 05:52 CET

Big hint on Twitter it seems.... :)

MattK | November 27, 09:03 CET

:) Cool.

snowinhell | November 27, 10:06 CET

Big hint on Twitter it seems.... :)

Yep,
this does look like a possible hint, bring on tomorrow!

[ edited by stfletch2000 on 2008-11-27 13:21 ]

stfletch2000 | November 27, 13:19 CET

stfletch2000,

I think it is just a hint to remember to wish someone a happy birthday Friday.

Anonymous1 | November 27, 18:13 CET

So I tried the link and did not get the magic message. So I Ctrl F5...no luck...Ctrl F5...no luck...Ctrl F5...there it was.

Anonymous1 | November 27, 18:15 CET

Soon we will be split into two parallel universes, one with a DVD, and one without a DVD.

The One True b!X | November 27, 18:23 CET

In my alternate timeline, I am able to see the DVD mention in Firefox but not in Safari, and I can't begin to imagine what that means.

So I'm going to imagine that my parallel universe also contains the DVD magically appearing in my Christmas stocking 'cause why not - "six impossible things before breakfast," I always say.

QuoterGal | November 27, 18:32 CET

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