TV Series DVD's- the most absurdly priced

[Anakin Flair]

Coming out of some remarks about how expensive the HBO show DVD sets are, what are some other TV shows you see at Best Buy or wherever that are so overprices, you wonder who actually buys them? My vote would hae to go to the CSI franchise. I think it was the last season to come out was priced at $90-something dollars, for what- 6 discs, 24 episodes? Who actually buys that? And why would they price it so high?

 

[vivisectvi]

Most Bluray TV sets are WAY overpriced. $70 each for the first three seasons of LOST, really? C'mon..

 

[Mattdotcom]

Thanks to the substandard service of Comcast 'round here, a lot of my friends have switched to DirecTV. And thanks to their super secret special channel 101, we've been introduced to Trailer Park Boys. So far we've seen the movie and a couple of seasons, albeit out of order. Naturally, I went to MovieStop to try and track down some DVDs. Not my first choice, but Circuit City swindled Best Buy out of a new location a few months before they went out of business, so the Best Buy still isn't open. I establish all of this beforehand because the fact that a two disc DVD of Trailer Park Boys costs SIXTY DOLLARS is so astonishing by itself that, had I not, someone would have wondered where in the hell I did my DVD shopping.

You can get the entire series from an independent seller on Amazon for seventy dollars.

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

I never watched LOST outside of the first 3 episodes. so I don't know about them, but a show like FREAKS AND GEEKS is so expensive because the company has to pay for the rights to release the episodes with the music on it. That's actually the rason THE WONDER YEARS has never been released. With the rights to the music they would pay for, to recoup the money, the sets would be over $100 each season. Last I read they were trying to work that out, but nothing new.

DARK SHADOWS is still over $50 a season. I try to catch them on sale on AMAZON. Last time I got season 1 for $14.

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

Thanks to the substandard service of Comcast 'round here, a lot of my friends have switched to DirecTV. And thanks to their super secret special channel 101, we've been introduced to Trailer Park Boys. So far we've seen the movie and a couple of seasons, albeit out of order. Naturally, I went to MovieStop to try and track down some DVDs. Not my first choice, but Circuit City swindled Best Buy out of a new location a few months before they went out of business, so the Best Buy still isn't open. I establish all of this beforehand because the fact that a two disc DVD of Trailer Park Boys costs SIXTY DOLLARS is so astonishing by itself that, had I not, someone would have wondered where in the hell I did my DVD shopping.

You can get the entire series from an independent seller on Amazon for seventy dollars.

I would just Amazon.ca to look for Canadian DVDs. Makes sense, right?

I mentioned in the DCAU thread about seeing JLU for $72 at Best Buy last week. It's apparently supposed to be a box set of all JLU episodes, but it didn't look like it.

 

[Exslade ZX]

Season 3 of Veronica Mars will seemingly never go down in price. In stores everywhere, I can never find it below 60$. Even though the other 2 seasons are usually cheap/on sale. I can't even find it on ebay for cheaper then 50 which is pretty surprising.

 

[fazzle]

seasons of Farscape were always like $90-$100 too. Bitch.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

The Star Trek DVD sets IMHO are nerd price gouging. I don't see them often for less than $50-60, even Enterprise and Voyager!

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

Cartoons have odd prices. Why are Pinky and the Brain volumes so expensive? We're not dealing with 24 twenty two minute episodes here. Yes, there are about 22 episodes per set, but they vary from as short as 7 minutes.

Fake edit: As I was making this complaint and went to verify the outrageously high prices on Amazon.com, I see they're actually on sale for under $30 US. That doesn't excuse the fact I've seen them being sold at HMV for $65 Canadian, though.

 

[Smues]

Agreed on the Star Trek sets. They came out at a price of around $100, and even after they've all been out for YEARS they still aren't usually affordabley priced.

 

[Conspiracy_Victim]

As a huge fan of the show, I was rather upset when the seasons of Babylon 5 were about $100 per. Ridiculous.

 

[Star Ocean 2]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. They're like, 10 dollars per volume, which I guess is an absurdly good value.

 

[ChrisMWaters]

I find it annoying that each MST3K set that's released costs almost 50 bucks...for just 4 episodes each time.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

DBZ gives you an absurd value for the price. South Park is becoming a bit of a rip, though with the licensed music I can understand. Still, 40 bucks for 12 episodes is a bit steep.

 

[Smues]

14 episodes, but yeah. As to DBZ, it may be a great value NOW, but it was a COMPLETE FUCKING RIP for those of us who didn't wait eight years for them to start releasing season sets, since they didn't seem to have any intention to ever do so. They released everything from the beginning of American season three to the end of the series (~230 episodes) 3 episodes at a time, with some discs containing 4 episodes. Retail price of $24.99 usually. That's right, 3 or 4 22 minute episodes for $25. Star Trek never fucked the fans that hard. Oh and they also started back at the beginning once they got the rights to those, releasing like seven discs of those episodes before they decided to be nice and release the season sets.

...

And why yes I did collect the entire series, episode 68 or whatever it was, thru 291, plus the first 18 or so, on those individual discs. Oh no I'm not bitter at all or anything.

Fuck.

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

If it makes you feel better, a lot of people hate the box set cropping. I don't and I think it looks great on a widescreen TV, but some people do.

On that note, original DB is getting the boxset treatment too, so hooray to that.

 

[Smues]

Original DB at least had more reasonable DVD releases already. I never got around to getting all of them, so I'll probably get the season sets at some point, but those were at least much more reasonably priced than the DBZ ripoff.

Oh and I don't have any problem with the box set releases. It's not likely that my 3 episodes per disc discs will get much use in the future. And now that I've already dug up the repressed rage, I'll also mention the fact that it took them several releases to get it right, so the early discs are pretty bad. I don't think the Ginyuu discs even had the 'last time' recaps. And it had the opening credits from one of the movies, though I forget which one. Ugg.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

You're telling me about DBZ. Sure, you get a LOT of episodes in a season set for the price, and I've been buying up the seasons, but I also own (well, used to own) the entire Funimation VHS release of the series. That's a lot of VHS tapes, when you consider you only got 3 or 4 episodes a cassette. At least each story arc made a cool pic when you lined the boxes up together. The sucky part is to get the "uncut" episodes, you had to drop an extra $5 on each tape, and at $20 each, thats a lot of cash I dropped on those things.

 

[Vigo]

Cartoons have odd prices. Why are Pinky and the Brain volumes so expensive? We're not dealing with 24 twenty two minute episodes here. Yes, there are about 22 episodes per set, but they vary from as short as 7 minutes.

Fake edit: As I was making this complaint and went to verify the outrageously high prices on Amazon.com, I see they're actually on sale for under $30 US. That doesn't excuse the fact I've seen them being sold at HMV for $65 Canadian, though.

HMV is like that. A lot of their stuff is way overpriced, which is why thanks to online shopping I rarely buy any TV shows from them. The last time I bought a TV show from them it was various seasons of the X-Files and that was only because they were being sold for $20.

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

I was on Amazon today and saw DINOSAURS is still over $30 for both season 1 & 2 and 3 & 4.

 

[KingPK]

I find it annoying that each MST3K set that's released costs almost 50 bucks...for just 4 episodes each time.

If you look around online, you can get each set for around $35-$45. Amazon is selling the Limited Edition of new set (due 12/1) for $45.

 

[DerangedHermit]

I like since Fox and ABC/Buena Vista decided to overhaul their packing to fit a single case, the price has dipped dramatically for a new release. I was able to get the past season of 24 the week it came out for between $20-25. I got S12 Simpsons for ~$20, Heroes S3 for ~$30 (bought with a $30 Amazon GC), S8 Scrubs for $15 on eBay and S5 of House for $25. (Sure, both Heroes and House are NBC Universal.)

I think the most I paid was $45 for one of the 24 volumes back in the day when it first came out (normally wouldn't have spent this but had a metric butt ton of Amazon GCs at the time thanks to their MTurk program) - of course it's more reasonable now.

I also spent $40 on the entire Summerslam Anthology and $50 for the used version of the first two volumes of the WM Anthology and the entire Rumble Anthology.

 

[kkktookmybabyaway]

Nowhere near the prices you people are talking about, but I always thought The Shield DVDs were a rip-off at $40-$50. I wait until they go on sale for around $20, which is a fine price for me.

 

[Red Baron]

ER is fucking expensive.

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

Yet people are opposed to Obamacare.

 

[Anakin Flair]

ER is fucking expensive.

I've actually been seeing ER on sale a lot, either at Walmart or Best Buy. I keep meaning to pick it up, but never hae money at the time.

Another in the series of pricey...series.... would be anything from the BBC. Dr. Who and Torchwood are both $60-$70 bucks a season.

I wonder if the reason CSI is so expensive is the music rights deal- but still, I see CSI Miami and NY for somewhere between $20-$40, so go figure.

 

[Youth N Asia]

Seems like everything eventually goes on sale now for $20. What I don't like are 6 disc boxsets coming out in regular single disc looking packages. I know they're trying to cut production costs and save shelf space...but it looks so cheap.

 

[pochorenella]

I'm sorry to say that back in the day I did shell out $99 for an X-Files box set (either season 3 or 4 I don't recall), and I even tought I was lucky that I got a $75 price tag for another at Costco some other time. Never again did I spent that kind of cash for a box set.

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

I think one of the worst ideas that a studio had was putting out a M*A*S*H boxed set. They had already put out all the season on DVD. The only thing the box set really had was the final episode on a disc by itself with extras. They then put it out so you could buy it if you didn't want to buy the box set.

 

[Conspiracy_Victim]

Yet people are opposed to Obamacare.

Well, then it'll be free but you'll have to wait 9 months for it to arrive and you'll only get to watch 3 or 4 episodes.