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Thanks for the info but I had already ordered my copy from Amazon. But with their current sale price, it'll be close to the BB price with Amazon's free shipping and no tax on the item, about $2-3.00 difference.

Wow! That's a great deal. I missed out on this one. Oh well. Thanks for posting for everyone else though!

I've been waiting for the price for this to drop below ~$30 range and it's now available from Amazon for $26.99 . Page link is here

Thanks again for the info! It's looking like the R1 set is the one for me.

Thanks for the info! I own several PAL sets and my experience is the same as yours; I notice the speed-up with some of my opening/closing theme spots, but none in the main episodes. I've also played PAL discs for several friends and none of them have detected a difference between PAL & NTSC...

^^ Jeff, Thanks for the info! The episode run times of .47-.48 indicate PAL masters or time-compression, assuming that they're not edited episodes. Has anyone compared their off-air copies to the studio release to check for episode scene edits?

Mark, Thanks again for the great info :). Your transfer desc is just what I needed. I have the original "Battlestar" and WWW as well as a few seasons of Dallas so your comparisons are what I was looking to obtain here. I watch all of my DVD's thru a SD upconvert player via HDMI into a 50"...

Mark, Thanks for the info! From your feedback, the video transfers look decent? The only issue that might steer me to the R2 release is the amount of music substitutions in the episodes, excluding the Pilot ep as was mentioned previously here.

I never notice the PAL speedup except for in some of my opening & closing theme music in some TV/DVD sets. PAL is never a deal-breaker for me. I am a little concerned about the transfer quality with this set. I'd like to read more feedback on this before I buy the set. Plus, the music...

Tim, Thanks for the review! I admit that I'm a little concerned to hear about music replacement with the R1 set but if it's only in the Pilot episode as you indicated, I plan on getting the R1 release. If there are other music edits throughout the other episodes, I think I'll get the R2...