The occasion calls for lots of \o/ !
Jul. 21st, 2007 07:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosiesparkIt hadn't been a particularly good day - no energy AT ALL, icky stomach, heatwave - until out of the blue, I thought I'd check the online prices for the UK boxsets of Due South's seasons 2 and 3, just on the offchance that Play or Amazon had decided to offer a decent discount on them ...
Twenty minutes later and the dvds for series 2 (second half of Vecchio - whee!) and series 3 (ALL the Kowalski episodes!) are on order from Play.com. Hurrah! Both series boxsets for less than the cost of just one from Amazon!! All three series are currently priced at £17.99 each i.e. 70% off. With free postage. FTW!!!
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I've been meaning to post about the US vs the UK boxsets. The recent US releases (the company is called Echo Bridge) are very reasonably priced, and I bought the series 3 boxset recently for US $19.99 plus postage, a grand total of US $26.97. Which would have been fantastic value except that I got jerky playback both on my dvd and tv set up and on my pc. I tweaked the playback settings on the pc, which improved things a lot, but the picture quality isn't great and I'm not exactly happy about not being able to watch the episodes on my tv set. (Note to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
brynnmck: Do NOT worry about this! PLEASE! I view it as a worthwhile experiment. *g*) So then I thought I'd try out the UK release of series 1, and to my relief and joy, they play perfectly and the picture quality is impressive.
I'd be willing to give the US dvds the benefit of the doubt and blame their seriously wonky performance on a combination of the region difference and my admittedly less than stellar equipment, except that (a) my dvd player IS multiregion and hasn't had any problems playing any of the other region 1 discs that I own and (b) there was a lot of concern in the reviews of these particular dvds about the poor quality of the picture. Series 3 has 24 episodes crammed onto 4 dvds, which apparently means that the discs have to run at a slower speed than normal, and maybe that's what my dvd player couldn't handle. The UK release spreads the same episodes over 7 dvds. I think that says something about the quality of playback that can be expected.
I think Play.com will ship anywhere postage-free. Including the US. Might be worth considering, especially since there are no extras on the US-box sets while the cover for the UK series 3 says that it includes "brand new documentary, commentaries and much more exclusive to this set." Setting aside the marketing hype, the documentary is probably Southbound (which I found really disappointing), but "commentaries" in the plural? That sounds like it might be interesting. And then there's the "much more." Yeah, right. *g*
Twenty minutes later and the dvds for series 2 (second half of Vecchio - whee!) and series 3 (ALL the Kowalski episodes!) are on order from Play.com. Hurrah! Both series boxsets for less than the cost of just one from Amazon!! All three series are currently priced at £17.99 each i.e. 70% off. With free postage. FTW!!!
\o/\o/\o/\o/
I've been meaning to post about the US vs the UK boxsets. The recent US releases (the company is called Echo Bridge) are very reasonably priced, and I bought the series 3 boxset recently for US $19.99 plus postage, a grand total of US $26.97. Which would have been fantastic value except that I got jerky playback both on my dvd and tv set up and on my pc. I tweaked the playback settings on the pc, which improved things a lot, but the picture quality isn't great and I'm not exactly happy about not being able to watch the episodes on my tv set. (Note to
brynnmck: Do NOT worry about this! PLEASE! I view it as a worthwhile experiment. *g*) So then I thought I'd try out the UK release of series 1, and to my relief and joy, they play perfectly and the picture quality is impressive.I'd be willing to give the US dvds the benefit of the doubt and blame their seriously wonky performance on a combination of the region difference and my admittedly less than stellar equipment, except that (a) my dvd player IS multiregion and hasn't had any problems playing any of the other region 1 discs that I own and (b) there was a lot of concern in the reviews of these particular dvds about the poor quality of the picture. Series 3 has 24 episodes crammed onto 4 dvds, which apparently means that the discs have to run at a slower speed than normal, and maybe that's what my dvd player couldn't handle. The UK release spreads the same episodes over 7 dvds. I think that says something about the quality of playback that can be expected.
I think Play.com will ship anywhere postage-free. Including the US. Might be worth considering, especially since there are no extras on the US-box sets while the cover for the UK series 3 says that it includes "brand new documentary, commentaries and much more exclusive to this set." Setting aside the marketing hype, the documentary is probably Southbound (which I found really disappointing), but "commentaries" in the plural? That sounds like it might be interesting. And then there's the "much more." Yeah, right. *g*
