TV-Reviewed

When I woke up at 5 this morning, I learned of Amazon’s sale of the complete series DVD box set of Stargate SG-1. Just before going to bed last night, I was thinking about that set, in fact. I was wondering when it would be on sale. And then the next morning, it was on sale for the incredible price of just $117, that’s $11.70 a season, which is a sweet deal.

Do I pull the trigger or don’t I? Well, I did and then went back and canceled the order. Why? Nearly everyone who has purchased the set seems to complain about it. Missing discs, duplicate discs, damaged discs, etc. Some people have even received the first five seasons, twice. Poorly chosen packaging (cardboard) seems to cause a lot of damage. Deep pits to light scratches are noted by reviewers.

So here’s my question. Why on earth hasn’t MGM reissued this set?! They obviously made a poor decision in going with one particular company for the packaging and distribution of the set. Do the consumers a favor and do a proper job with another company. I’ve yet to spend a single penny on the Stargate franchise DVDs, and it doesn’t look as though I’ll be changing that anytime soon.

I may just wait until the first series gets released in BluRay. It’ll give the company time to remaster everything. I just hope they do a good job of packing everything up. The slim packs seem to be the way to go as far as packaging goes… slim DVD cases with spots for two discs. It’s become the defacto way of DVD packaging for TV sets. It’s just too bad they didn’t think of this when designing the packaging for the complete Stargate SG-1 box set. I really don’t like the idea of spending hours going through 50+ DVDs and finding out which ones work and which ones don’t and then dealing with customer service for a problem that was out of their control entirely; it’s up to MGM and the company they hired for the job to rectify the problem.