Question about the LOST onscreen logo (series title)

[gastrof]

I have this thing about doing homebrew DVDs off TV recordings- I like to use the actual title of the show as it appears onscreen when printing label-type info on the discs.

LOST just started airing on SciFi (U.S.), and while I've been aware of the show, this is the first time I'm actually watching it.

I've seen the logo that's used onscreen for the first 4 episodes, the sort of angled almost aerial view of a 3-D "L O S T". I've also seen, tho', an entirely different version of the show title. Big letters, look sort of cracked, like made long ago, carved in stone, and weathered.

Does the show ever switch over to using the latter as the onscreen series title, or does it stick with the "areial view"?

Let's see...

I think using a picture would be better than how I've been describing this

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/528/lostzu8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Top is the "old and cracked", bottom is the one used on at least the first four episodes.

Again, do they switch over later, or do they stick with the same onscreen logo from the beginning up to now? (And maybe use the "cracked" one only on ads and on DVD packaging?)

Stupid question, I know, but if anyone can answer...

Thanks.

[Sirius Black]

By my reckoning the arial 3D view is used for the titles at the beginning throughout the series thus far. There are other things about the logo that I've been told are present but I've never seen them. Which is odd because I watch in HD. To say more would be spoilery.

[MegaHertz67]

The top ones are use in most of their print advertising. I don't remember them being used during the episodes, but they are probably used as billboards on the bumpers, which means to say as static images that are used when there is a voice over coming in and out of commercial. Here in Miami, for example, there will be a static shot like that when they talk about who is sponsoring the HD broadcast of the show.

The bottom look is used at the beginning and ending of the show.

That's how I remember it.

[gchance]

The show always uses the bottom ones. The one in the middle and on the right is the end title, it pops onscreen with the little sound effect at the end of the episode. The other ones are just for promotional stuff. That one in the upper-right is I believe the S1 graphic for the DVD set. There are other promotional ones you didn't put up there, they had a new one last season but that's all I'll say there. :)

Greg

[Mikeyis4dcats]

By my reckoning the arial 3D view is used for the titles at the beginning throughout the series thus far. There are other things about the logo that I've been told are present but I've never seen them. Which is odd because I watch in HD. To say more would be spoilery.

I'm curious....feel free to PM me the spoilers!

[Donbadabon]

To say more would be spoilery.

You can always spoilerize the text here for those of us that are curious.

[Sirius Black]

I've read that there are images among other things in the logo. I can't be more specific because I've never actually seen those images.

[gchance]

The spoilery stuff you're talking about is in last season's promos, which wasn't within the series, it was just in promotional material. It's not even spoilery, because we still don't even know what it means, hehe. Here it is.
http://images.lostpedia.com/images/d/d7/Lost_season_4_poster_320.jpg

Greg

[gastrof]

Thanks guys.

Now I know which version to use on the discs.

Now I just have to decide if I really want to stick with this four hours every Monday night for the next six months to catch up. Heh!

[MickeS]

Thanks guys.

Now I know which version to use on the discs.

Now I just have to decide if I really want to stick with this four hours every Monday night for the next six months to catch up. Heh!

It's worth it!

[gchance]

Be careful with relying on Sci-Fi to actually play the entire series, in order. They've burned me that way before. But yes, it's worth it.

Greg

[gastrof]

Be careful with relying on Sci-Fi to actually play the entire series, in order. They've burned me that way before. But yes, it's worth it.

Greg

I know what you mean. They certainly didn't do JERICHO fans any favors.

Still, with regards to LOST rerun/catchup broadcasts, SciFi is the only game in town.

[TheMerk]

I know what you mean. They certainly didn't do JERICHO fans any favors.

Still, with regards to LOST rerun/catchup broadcasts, SciFi is the only game in town.

Is that true? I'm pretty sure that I saw LOST commercials on one of our local affiliates. Since it wasn't the ABC affiliate, I assumed that the show was in syndication now.

[jlb]

The spoilery stuff you're talking about is in last season's promos, which wasn't within the series, it was just in promotional material. It's not even spoilery, because we still don't even know what it means, hehe. Here it is.
http://images.lostpedia.com/images/d/d7/Lost_season_4_poster_320.jpg

Greg

Oh thank you for reminding me about the finale. I have to watch it again before starting up the new season. I'm sure that ABC will air it again before the premiere.

[DancnDude]

G4 is starting reruns of Lost and I believe these are gonna be the "popup" kind like ABC was showing that have little details at the bottom.

[gchance]

G4 is starting reruns of Lost and I believe these are gonna be the "popup" kind like ABC was showing that have little details at the bottom.

After watching the episodes in their first airings, I took the popup ones and watched at like 2.5x, it was great. My wife thought I was nuts, but that's fine with me.

Greg

[DevdogAZ]

I know what you mean. They certainly didn't do JERICHO fans any favors.

Still, with regards to LOST rerun/catchup broadcasts, SciFi is the only game in town.
Or you could just buy/rent the DVDs. This isn't 1995 where recording shows off TV is the only way you're ever going to have access to them again. They're most likely edited when they're shown in syndication. I don't get the point of recording the shows off Sci-Fi and creating DVDs of them.

[mattack]

Be careful with relying on Sci-Fi to actually play the entire series, in order.

Plus, they're almost certainly not playing the entire episode -- they're cutting more to show more commercials.

The original poster should just rent/buy the DVDs and/or record the original airing of upcoming shows.

[gastrof]

...I don't get the point of recording the shows off Sci-Fi and creating DVDs of them.

How many DVDs are in each season set, and how much does such a set cost?

I buy blank DVDs for 35 to 40 cents each, and usually record four episodes a disc.

That's about what? Two dollars a season?

Besides, it's fun to look at a TV series collection and know you recorded it yourself.

[gchance]

Except it doesn't count now, gastrof. You didn't record it yourself during the initial run. ;)

Greg

[toddvj]

On another note, anyone else ever notice that the S in lost kinda gets messed up in the opening credits?