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12-13-2003, 05:50 PM
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i've never been much for TV material, i'm a movie lover first and foremost, yet i'm enjoying the hell out of my Buffy sets at the moment.
i was holding S5 in my hands, in a nice compact box, and i just couldn't help but think...could this have been possible with laserdisc?
22 episodes would have come out to 11 clv discs ( unless they worked some very awkward breaks in to squeeze that down).
a set like that would have been humoungous and weighed enough that shipping alone would have been a good chunk (forget about free shipping with LDs).
it was then that i realized this was it.
this was one of the promises of dvd fulfilled.
22 hrs of quality content in a package i could hold in one hand, and that cost me as much as a single movie on laser did 12 yrs ago ($36 w/ free shipping from Amazon).
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12-13-2003, 06:27 PM
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Agreed.
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12-13-2003, 07:04 PM
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Paul, be sure to get Angel sets too. I just finished Angel season 3 set (R2) and wow! It must be the best season of the Buffy/Angel (so far). 22 episodes in a couple of days is simply heaven.
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12-13-2003, 07:57 PM
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Ha ha, I STILL think of everything in laserdisc prices, so I'll buy almost any movie priced under $15 since that was the average price for "cutout" LDs.
One interesting box set I have is the "Family Dog" animated show, which only had 6 episodes and was put out as a 3-disc set (2 episodes on each side, the last side being a "turtle side"). I bought it when DVD was just coming on the market (swearing I'd never support it) and Pioneer had dropped the list prices of a lot of titles- this was list-priced at $14.99, a bargain for anything on laserdisc, much less something that takes up 3 discs.
I've always liked that all laserdiscs default to "Play All" however 
BTW a first-season set of The Simpsons was rumored to be coming out on laserdisc several years ago, priced around $100.
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12-13-2003, 08:25 PM
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This may sound like a stupid question, but when did LD officially die? When did they stop producing new LDs and LD players?
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12-13-2003, 09:08 PM
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Well there was some stuff from Criterion - The entire series of Treudeau and Altman's Tanner '88, that was made for HBO
They also released a disc of I Love Lucy (2 eps in original broadcast form, amd lots of extra features) and one or two Addams Family releases.
I also believe at least one season of X-Files was released in Japan, and i think some individual discs were released here that were identical to the VHS releases.
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12-13-2003, 09:22 PM
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Japan seemed to have quite a few TV show boxed sets.
i remember seeing a listing for a couple of volumes of Lost in Space once, and CDjapan still seems to offer a vol 2 to Kolchak ( i'm assuming that would be 10 eps/ half the series) but that runs over $300 without the shipping which would be over $30 i'm sure.
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12-13-2003, 09:37 PM
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And the more i think - there were also Outer Limits and Twilight Zone on LD as well as Star Trek, ST:TNG, and the complete ST Animated Series...
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12-13-2003, 10:06 PM
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This may sound like a stupid question, but when did LD officially die? When did they stop producing new LDs and LD players?
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For the domestic market, the last few LD releases trickled out in the Fall of 1999 and early 2000. By the time Star Wars: The Phantom Menace was released to LD in April 2000, it was only available in that format in Japan. (Gosh, it's really hard to believe that it's been over four and-a-half years since that film's theatrical release in Summer 1999!)
Internationally (mostly Japan), I believe that LD hung on until Fall 2001.
As to the topic: I wholeheartedly agree (as I clutch my Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season Seven box in my hands!)
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12-13-2003, 10:38 PM
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It's interesting that the reverse effect also seems to be true -- the availability of TV shows on DVD has accelerated the popularity of the format.
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12-13-2003, 11:36 PM
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Actually there were 7 seasons released for X-Files on LD in Japan.
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