Well, I'm one of the complainers. The discs in the SAMUEL FULLER COLLECTION are stacked in overlapping pairs, which has been done in several other box sets. I don't like having DVDs rubbing against each other, but I can live with it (other than Sony's TOHO set, which stacked three DVDs onto one spindle).
However, the SAMUEL FULLER COLLECTION hits a new low--the four bottom discs have edges that are wedged tightly BENEATH the spindles. I found it almost impossible to safely remove the discs. In fact, I opted to crack the outer packaging twice, in order to slide the discs out without breaking them.
The Scorsese featurette on the UNDERWORLD, USA disc won't play properly in either of my DVD decks. I believe this is due to damage from being wedged under the groove below the spindle, since the disc has a permament mark on one edge that can't be cleaned off.
Most people may not be bothered by the strange packaging, but I feel compelled to mention it, since some people do care about the quality of the packaging. The SAMUEL FULLER and TOHO collections give me serious reservations about ordering future Sony product. Having spent seventy-something of my hard-earned (parttime) dollars on FULLER, I frankly expected better packaging than was afforded to the less expensive TOHO set.
I hope very much that Sony will reconsider their recent trend of poor quality packaging. For seventy dollars, I don't want a wrestling match when I remove the DVDs, and I don't want to discover a disc that is defective out of the box, due to that packaging.
