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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Aug. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- "Family Guy," the irreverent animated comedy that was twice canceled and then returned to the airwaves by popular demand is coming to the Xbox LIVE download to own service this Sunday September 2, 2007. Last year, "Family Guy" was the #1 rated primetime series of all networks among Men 18-34, which is the same core demographic for Xbox LIVE. The agreement was announced by Jamie McCabe, Executive Vice President, PPV/VOD/EST for Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, and Ross Honey, Senior Director, Media & Entertainment Group for Microsoft Corporation.
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Family Guy from Fox is presented in its original broadcast ratio of 1.33:1 in a nicely done fullscreen presentation. Being an animated series, the first thing that you’ll notice about the presentation is the absolutely brilliant and bold palette on display throughout the entire series. The show presents primary colors quite strongly throughout all of the episodes and everything is properly balanced and saturated throughout. As bright as some of these hues are, one might expect to find some smearing and/or oversaturation and thankfully, Fox has kept these problems at bay. The image quality was quite nice overall, but there were a couple of problems that were prevalent throughout the series and they manifested themselves in the form of jaggies, as well as some slight haloing from time to time. These issues were easily detected throughout the various episodes and while they weren’t overly harsh, the sheer quantity of their appearances kept the score down somewhat.
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Konietzko began his career in animation as a character designer at Film Roman for Fox’s prime-time series, Family Guy. He soon moved to the post of assistant director for two more Film Roman shows, Mission Hill and King of the Hill, working beside animation director DiMartino. Konietzko then became a storyboard artist and later an art director for the Nickelodeon animated series Invader Zim.
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The animation isn't the only thing to improve; Fox has done a great job in delivering a better Family Guy DVD set. The audio has been dramatically improved, going from a Dolby Surround to a Dolby Digital 5.1 mix, but they've ... improved the extras. There are 10 episodes with commentary tracks, a really nice featurette on the return of the show, and other interesting material. Fox's love for the series is more apparent with the release of this set.
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The folks over at IGN got the chance to speak, exclusively, with Mike Henry, one of the many actors from the Family Guy series. He speaks briefly about the series and the chance that he might be parodied on the show, in a two page interview with IGN Editor Eric Goldman.
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When Family Guy - Volume 1 was released on DVD (back in April, 2003), the fans rejoiced. Sales went nuts, and a 2nd box set was released five months later, containing the rest of the series.
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