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For this set, a $29.99 price smells like a counterfeit on ebay. Though with the being said, I would only believe a $29.99 price if I could see the actual dvd set I'm buying in person at an actual offline retail record/video store or wallymart. As an extreme example of this, I saw the Cheers...

So far amazon has accepted all my returns of suspected bootlegs with a full refund. In the return procedure, I explain in detail why it is a bootleg such as single-layer discs (ie. less than 5 gigabytes) with no encryption. In the return package, I also include a handwritten note outlining...

I posted a recent rant about this issue on another thread on here. https://www.hometheaterforum.com/community/threads/whats-left-unreleased-on-4k-that-you-would-pay-50-to-own-on-day-one.382477/page-3#post-5323699 Apparently bootleggers have become problematic where the counterfeit copies...

If you're asking for reasons which are completely unrelated to making silly wishlists, I do have a second big reason for doing preorders. Though this is more applicable to tv show season dvd sets (or complete series), and not so much to bluray yet (or 4Kbluray for that matter). I've been...

Hmmm ..... The Welcome Back Kotter complete series set is being re-released this time by Warner on June 11, 2024. The amazon listing asserts this upcoming Warner released set will be a 12 disc set. https://www.amazon.com/Welcome-Back-Kotter-Complete-DVD/dp/B0D1W2DFP7/ In contrast, the...

For myself as mentioned in other recent threads on here, I currently don't own a standalone 4Kbluray player. So if there is a "must buy" title I am inclined to purchase at $50 or higher, my purchasing decision will also include the cost of buying a new standalone 4Kbluray player. (ie. At least...

Not quite $100, but I did purchase the Criterion laserdic variant of Blade Runner for around $60 to $70 back in the early-mid 1990s. In those days, that was actually considered a decent discount for that title. In those days, all the domestic VHS versions of Blade Runner I had come across...

Perhaps Idiocracy.

(A long rambling monologue). My primary impediment to buying a 4Kbluray player (ie. not a computer drive), is that there has so far been zero "must buy" 4Kbluray movies for me. As a recent example of this for me, I had a preorder for the complete series set of the amazon produced streaming...

This would make complete sense, if most of the hardcore OCD compulsive completionist collectors are the primary customers of 4Kbluray discs releases.

A recent prominent case of this for me, is that I decided it wasn't worthwhile to buy the Oppenheimer bluray. Instead, I ended up re-reading the Oppenheimer biography book that the movie was based on.

(This is strictly a personal anecdotal experience, and will not generally be applicable to anybody else). In practice I've found that if I have to "wait" for a significant discount on a particular title, then there was an extremely high probability that such title will end up only be watched...

Here's an unboxing video of the repackaged Waltons complete series dvd set, re-released back in May 2021. It shows that the season 8 and 9 discs were repressed as single-sided discs. Better late than never. Back in 2012, the season 1 to 7 dvd sets were re-released as single-sided discs...

VEI's disc quality control got better over the past four years or so. Not as many problems with their more recently released sets, such as all those Stephen J. Cannell re-released sets over the past year or two.

Not a movie. The Jetsons cartoon representing the cold war era "Googie" architecture. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mid-21st-century-modern-that-jetsons-architecture-2494820/