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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | Absolutely MAD DVD Collection collects over 600 issues of MAD magazine, one of the classic humor magazines. Every issue is here, from 1952 to 2006 -- 460 issues in all. It also includes most of the Special Editions: XL's, Super Special and Color Classics. There's even interviews with the many of the writers, Spy VS Spy animation video, Spy VS Sky Mountain Dew commercials and much more. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 7.5 inches | | Product Width: | 5.5 inches | | Product Height: | 1.5 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.81 pounds | | Package Length: | 7.5 inches | | Package Width: | 5.5 inches | | Package Height: | 1.5 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.3 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 80 reviews |
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| | System Requirements | | Platform: | Windows 2000 / Windows Me / Windows XP / Mac OS X | | Media: | DVD-ROM | | Item Quantity: | 1 |
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| | Features | Every issue of MAD Magazine on 2 DVDsRead every single page as they were originally published - all the stories, letters pages, articles,Includes video clip interviews from the MAD writers and clips of Spy vs Spy animationOver 600 complete printable issues, cover to cover, that’s over 17,500 scanned pages in full cA truly interactive experience and can leverage the success of the late night show to introduce MAD
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Great for the avid Mad fan Sep 04, 2010
Has everything mad... Perfect for copying onto the ipad (which is exactly what I have done). Format of the CD is that each year is in a directory, followed by each issue.
File format for all issues is PDF. Full color if available (remember the early stuff was black and white)!
Filled a missed part of this 42 year olds life!!!
 Very poor resolution Aug 14, 2010
Hopefully, in the near future, they will rescan all the issues at a higher resolution. A lot of the artwork is lost. It's unclear why they couldn't release multiple DVDs at a higher resolution especially in this day and age of technology. In fact, why isn't this given away for free in google books by now?
 Absolutely MAD on an iPad Aug 04, 2010
I just put Absolutely MAD on my iPad via DROPBOX. This is delightful! Technology enables childhood obsession!
Incredible!!! Aug 02, 2010
I was a huge Mad Magazine fan back in the 70's and early 80's, that is until Rock music became my main point of interest. I lost touch with the magazine, and all the magzines I did have were lost. I'm glad I purchased this DVD, it is incredible. The issues are clear cut on the screen and the print outs are great also. Navigation is easy as well. I'm just starting to look at what this DVD has, but I would rather print them out and read them like a magazine, than read off of the screen. Well worth the money and if you're any kind of Mad Magazine fan, it is well worth having this DVD.
Nice product but poor scan quality loses some art Jul 06, 2010
I love MAD magazine, and it is awesome to have so many issues on hand. This is a great resource. Beats my 15-year hard copy archive hands down. And I don't have to trash them anymore!
The pros: pretty decent search engine to find key words, or merely articles you liked in the past. MAD seems to have also indexed all the small print in the "Letters and Tomatoes" department, as well as random "factoids" in some of the newer issues, etc. Impressive.
Some may not like the way the super specials are set up (only providing the new material for each). I understand the logic, since disk space is limited. All tables of contents are hyper linked, and will take you to the article you select, regardless of magazine type. This is also true for the special inserts. They typically are not part of the mag, but are in a separate PDF file.
The cons: I cannot stand the poorly cropped pages, you lose a lot of the Marginals, some of the best work in the magazine.
The other bummer is that the scans do not scale well, meaning when you zoom in to view the marginals, the image becomes blurry and hard (if not impossible) to read. Same for some of the fine print in many drawings, where much humor can normally be found.
I do not wish to try and print these pages out just to see if the print quality is better than the screen quality, but will try just for the sake of doing it. It would be a pity if this worked, though.
If the scan quality and page size were addressed I would not hesitate to give this a 5-star rating. The above cons each cost a star. Despite these shortcomings, this is a great package to have!
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