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Originally Posted by Kevin L McCorry
I see this is to be a 5-disc set. How does Universal propose to put 24 50-minute episodes on 5 discs without using the dreaded double-sided DVD-18 or DVD-14?
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They put five episodes of The Rockford Files on each DVD in those sets. It's becoming quite common to put five episodes (or ten for a half-hour show) on each DVD. There's not much of a difference in quality (usually none in fact) and they've been able to use that type of compression for quite some time now. Up until the last year, however, studios had been keeping the episode counts down to make it look like you're getting more of a deal (a four-disc set looks larger than a three-disc set). Shelf space has become a bigger deal, there's increased production demands, and less importance is placed on the number of discs (more people understand the concept of buying full seasons, so they no longer advertise the disc count as prominently). Thus, studios are looking for fewer discs per release to keep costs down. Of course, that's just my perception of the situation (I don't have any inside information or anything) and that applies more to half-hour shows than hour shows, which have had a fair standard of four per disc.
