Star Trek: The Next Generation DVD's...

[Psychotic Dreamer]

I've been thinking of buying these on DVD. However they seem fairly expensive. List price on each season is $130. Where as Buffy Season 2 was only list price at $59.98. While the Trek Seasons have between 24 and 26 episodes the Buffy Season 2 has 22 episodes. I'm just trying to figure out why there is such a large price difference. So I guess what I'm getting at are the Trek Season DVD's worth it?

 

[jasper]

because trekie will buy it but buffies spend too much just buy oxygen.

 

[Staffan]

The US Buffy DVDs are only $60 for season 2? Dang! According to Amazon UK, list price for Buffy is £80 per season (roughly $120 or so), with the exception of season 1 (£45). The price for a season of TNG seems to be £85 - a little more than Buffy.

Hmm... taking a look at Amazon US shows list prices of $60 and $40 for Buffy, and $140 for TNG. Weird. What is even weirder is that a Swedish store (www.sfbok.se) charges *much* less for a season of TNG than for a season of Buffy (roughly 1100 kr for TNG vs. 1400 kr for Buffy), with both being Region 2 and thus the UK release.

Hmm... perhaps I should place an order with Amazon US for seasons 1 and 2 of Buffy when I get money some time. 780 kr for two seasons of Buffy goodness - about half of what I'd pay for one season at sf-bokhandeln!

 

[Flinx]

You may want to look on ebay instead of Amazon. I picked up Season 1 and 2 for about $80 and $90, respectively. It's still a lot of money but not as bad as $130 each.

For the non-Americans who are thinking about buying the cheaper DVD's from the US, be careful about the coding. I believe all of Amazon's DVD's are encoded for Region 1 (US and Canada only). I believe the UK is Region 2 (I could be wrong but it's definitely not Region 1). Or you can see if they're encoded for Region 0 which works everywhere.

 

[Staffan]

Yeah, they're region 1-encoded, and my opinions on the region-coding system would probably make both Eric's *and* Morrus's grandmothers run away screaming (summary: me no like). However, I did find a hack on the net to make my DVD-drive region 0 which means it doesn't bother with that region crap. Of course, I haven't had the opportunity to actually *test* any DVDs since I did that...

 

[Sulimo]

You may want to look on ebay instead of Amazon. I picked up Season 1 and 2 for about $80 and $90, respectively. It's still a lot of money but not as bad as $130 each.

For the non-Americans who are thinking about buying the cheaper DVD's from the US, be careful about the coding. I believe all of Amazon's DVD's are encoded for Region 1 (US and Canada only). I believe the UK is Region 2 (I could be wrong but it's definitely not Region 1). Or you can see if they're encoded for Region 0 which works everywhere.

Of course a large amount of non-US DVD players are region free.

If you want cheap, the R4 set's might be the go. Prices range from around US$44 for S1, to US$79 for S2, to US$87 for S3 & 4. Prices were even lower untill recently when the aussie dollar started to increase a bit.

As for Trek, S1 can be had for US$114...

Checkout EzyDVD . Its one Australian based DVD retailer that sells overseas.

 

[Holy Bovine]

I've been thinking of buying these on DVD. However they seem fairly expensive. List price on each season is $130. Where as Buffy Season 2 was only list price at $59.98. While the Trek Seasons have between 24 and 26 episodes the Buffy Season 2 has 22 episodes. I'm just trying to figure out why there is such a large price difference. So I guess what I'm getting at are the Trek Season DVD's worth it?

If Star Trek TNg ever goes out of syndication for more than a year I might consider buying them. COnsidering right now I can turn the TV on to a STTNG episode (its one of the 1st season ones I can't remember the name to) I can't see ever buying these (and certainly not for the $160 CAN price tag - *GAG*!).

Now Babylon 5 on the other hand......

 

[Scribe Ineti]

When I found out TNG was coming out on DVD, I sold my Columbia House VHS version on eBay for about $400. I picked up the season 1 DVD set, and will get the others as well.

The DVDs take up way less space than the videos, I'll have every episode available to watch whenever I want (no waiting for syndication), and if I need a certain piece of info, it's all there.

And, since I'm writing Trek short stories for the Strange New Worlds contest, it helps to have all that material available as needed for inspiration and fact-checking.

Now if they would only announce DS9 on DVD....