...The Complete Collection...

Have you noticed how we have lots of releases with the "Complete Collection" or "Ultimate Collection", or the Complete Series...did SD DVD just ran out of shows?!>

We include in disc release details any information found on the disc case or box itself. If the disc is marked on the case as a "Special Edition," that's how we list it. If the box set says "Complete Collection," that's how we list it, even if a few years later a studio releases another box set of almost the same material but adds even more, later episodes.

John

But have u noticed how many releases of 'complete collections' have been released lately? Like X-files, Twin Peaks, Raymond, Seinfeld...just to mention a few...

Complete TV Series Sets are HUGE business for the studios, which is why we're seeing a whole lot more. Friends, West Wing, Full House, Queer as Folk, Star Trek: TNG, Seinfeld...and those are ones I have right off the top of my head.

It's cost effective, too. All the studio really has to do is take presumably already created discs and stick them in a new box. Costs should be relatively low and they sell like gangbusters.

I'm personally very worried about a complete Simpsons Series set. It should run more than a month's pay and hold a thousand discs.

Jason

Jason said -

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"Complete TV Series Sets are HUGE business for the studios, which is why we're seeing a whole lot more."

You are absolutely right! And VERY profitable, as while movie DVD discs have fallen to ridiculous sale-thru prices ($3.99 to $5.99 regularly in weekly discount sales), the TV SHOW DVDs have held steady in price and sell very, very well to long-time fans. Only occasionally do you see a "season 1" etc reduced to a "sale" price. Most TV SHOW Box Sets are priced between $25 to $50, realizing the best, profitable content on discs these days for the studios.

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Studios have also been re-releasing a lot of "Complete Series" or "Megaset" packages recently, usually at much lwoer prices. I know I've reviewed a few Complete series that were released 3 or 4 years ago at $179, and now are put out at $99. And not even with any new features or transfers. Older buyers are probably pretty peeved, but it shows you how deflationary the DVD market has become.