I personally LOVE 7th Heaven! I have been an avid fan over the past 10 years, and I am gladly welcoming its return into the DVD business. I just really hope that Paramount continues putting the family on the spine. And space issues aside, theyve already started with 6 thinpaks, I would hate the inconsistency if they switched to 3 double-sided thinpaks like the rest. I HATE INCONSISTENCY!!! Packaging influences my decisions on DVD purchases 99% of the time. Dont screw it up!
Hey Adam! I'm soooooooo happy that 7th Heaven is being given another chance. I hope that they continue the series, in nice packaging, as they started with the first two sets, in the 6 thinpak cases. Here in Australia, they did that for Desperate Housewives and Lost. -James
I find it odd how 7th has been WB's #1 series for 8 or 9 years yet one of it's only flops on DVD (well, this and Everwood). Smallville, Buffy, Angel, Charmed, Roswell, Gilmore Girls, Felicity, One Tree Hill, etc.... (I also bet that Supernatural will do very well on DVD) have all been huge successes on DVD, with all of those except Charmed (which had a late start due to rights and a TNT contract) either completed or at least caught up to the most recent season.
Yet at the same time, 7th was a show so big on WB that even after cancelling it AFTER TEN SEASONS, they still gave it a last minute reprieve even after a series finale had aired for it. But despite that, they're just getting up to season 3 on DVD with people weery that it won't sell and that season 4+ won't happen.
I got my copy of this set yesterday. Although the packaging is OK, it still looks weird next my previous seasons. It's the size of regular DVD: It's actually packaged in a regular-sized amaray, with some small inserts that's able to hold 4 discs without using hardly any space at all. The other 2 discs are on each side of the amaray case.
Looks like A/V quality is on par with the earlier seasons.
I wonder: if the show hadn't been picked up at the Eleventh Hour (no pun intended), would we have seen season 3 on dvd? When the show finally does get cancelled, does that mean the end of the dvds. I have a theory why the dvd doesn't sell: it's because no one really likes 7th Heaven. I think it's the show that well-meaning families force their children to watch, and that those same children wouldn't be caught dead having the dvd in their homes. That's my theory.
Yeah, it probably wouldn't have gotten onto it's 3rd season, if it hadn't been picked up for an eleventh season. I hope that more people buy these, so that later seasons can surface to DVD. I didn't really get into it til the twins came along. -James