Mark Talmadge
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This is shameful to me, as well. I've gotten to the point where I'm extremely selective to what shows I've been buying. While I have a pretty good sized library, I don't buy all of those shows that I really want. I've actually stopped buying those shows on DVD that are fairly recent shows, like Lost and House and have just stayed with collecting those shows that I grew up watching like Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie and Gilligan's Island.
There's just too much crap out there to worry about and it's the fault of the studios for not finding better ways to condense the size of these sets. Personally, I'd rather be able to buy a set that contains the complete series on a few disks, single sided. The problem is that studios are busy cutting the number of DVD's in a boxed set by using both sides of the disk to eliminate the number of disks they are using while keeping the same retail price.
This is why I have eliminated 95% of my purchases for new shows. The studios continuisly cut their costs on DVD sets and they don't pass those savings onto the consumer and that's what's harming the market. The only shows that are currently broadcasting as new episodes that I purchase are basically, Bones, NCIS (the original series), 24, Leverage and Grey's Anatomy. I just refuse to support the studios anymore.
There's just too much crap out there to worry about and it's the fault of the studios for not finding better ways to condense the size of these sets. Personally, I'd rather be able to buy a set that contains the complete series on a few disks, single sided. The problem is that studios are busy cutting the number of DVD's in a boxed set by using both sides of the disk to eliminate the number of disks they are using while keeping the same retail price.
This is why I have eliminated 95% of my purchases for new shows. The studios continuisly cut their costs on DVD sets and they don't pass those savings onto the consumer and that's what's harming the market. The only shows that are currently broadcasting as new episodes that I purchase are basically, Bones, NCIS (the original series), 24, Leverage and Grey's Anatomy. I just refuse to support the studios anymore.