This is just irritating.

[Trekker4747]

I really wish DVD makers of TV sets would make all of the season's boxes consistant.

:glares at the Paramount DVD makers of the Frasier and Cheers sets:

 

[T'Baio]

And...

 

[Amaris]

I really wish DVD makers of TV sets would make all of the season's boxes consistant.

:glares at the Paramount DVD makers of the Frasier and Cheers sets:

The Simpsons qualify here as well.


J.

 

[Trekker4747]

I really wish DVD makers of TV sets would make all of the season's boxes consistant.

:glares at the Paramount DVD makers of the Frasier and Cheers sets:

The Simpsons qualify here as well.


J.

With the "head" boxes didn't they offer to send you a matching, consistant, box and then release further head-seasons with both boxes?

 

[WillsBabe]

I really wish DVD makers of TV sets would make all of the season's boxes consistant.

I agree, then there's the whole thing of re-issued series. I have NCIS in two formats because they re-packaged them for a less-expensive re-issue. Fine, it's cheaper but it messes up my shelves. Then there's there whole thing of different regions having different packaging. I have different packaging on my MASH dvds, too bcause some are region one and some region two. Still, once it irritated me for consistency's sake. Now I have 'em all packed away out of sight.

 

[TheGodBen]

I really wish DVD makers of TV sets would make all of the season's boxes consistant.

:glares at the Paramount DVD makers of the Frasier and Cheers sets:

I agree, I hate the fact that the first two seasons of The West Wing are different from the other five, and then they went and fixed it after I had already bought them.

I got the complete Frasier box-set so the packaging is fine, but my big complaint is that the DVDs themselves aren't colour coded correctly. Each season of Frasier had a different colour for the title and I liked that, but the DVDs don't follow his system and now I find myself getting confused.

Yes, I am extremely pedantic.

 

[Amaris]

With the "head" boxes didn't they offer to send you a matching, consistant, box and then release further head-seasons with both boxes?

I don't know. I do know that even the DVD boxes that aren't head boxes are getting progressively worse. Look at Season 11's box, it's stupid. I mean, whoever designed it apparently hates people.


J.

 

[FordSVT]

I really wish DVD makers of TV sets would make all of the season's boxes consistant.

I agree, then there's the whole thing of re-issued series. I have NCIS in two formats because they re-packaged them for a less-expensive re-issue. Fine, it's cheaper but it messes up my shelves. Then there's there whole thing of different regions having different packaging. I have different packaging on my MASH dvds, too bcause some are region one and some region two. Still, once it irritated me for consistency's sake. Now I have 'em all packed away out of sight.

Yes. Half my Stargate collection is in the old "big box" format with five DVDs per season, half is in the slender cases with only three. The 5 DVD sets (with a case per DVD) take up three times as much shelf space.

 

[Caligula]

Alias, The West Wing, and Smallville fit this category as well. The worst is the format that has the discs stacked slightly on top of one another, so that if you want... say... Disc 2, you have to lift Disc 1 out first. A minor inconvenience in the grand scheme of things, but it's still damned annoying.

 

[Trekker4747]

Alias, The West Wing, and Smallville fit this category as well. The worst is the format that has the discs stacked slightly on top of one another, so that if you want... say... Disc 2, you have to lift Disc 1 out first. A minor inconvenience in the grand scheme of things, but it's still damned annoying.

Yeah, that's slightly annoying but at least the exterior of the box is similar in design/look throughout the series (at least in Smallville's case, don't know about TWW) aside from the size of the box. The "stacking" of discs, though, is greatly annoying.

 

[nx1701g]

Alias, The West Wing, and Smallville fit this category as well. The worst is the format that has the discs stacked slightly on top of one another, so that if you want... say... Disc 2, you have to lift Disc 1 out first. A minor inconvenience in the grand scheme of things, but it's still damned annoying.

Especially irritating is that they sometimes use a glue to keep the DVDs down that gets attached to the DVD and can't be removed easily (its a blue, gummy material). Also, every so often, a DVD sometimes comes loose during transit and gets scratched to hell.

 

[Caligula]

Also, every so often, a DVD sometimes comes loose during transit and gets scratched to hell.

I've had that happen on a number of occasions. Fortunately, to date, none of the DVDs I have that came loose en route to me were scratched to the point where they wouldn't play.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I really wish DVD makers of TV sets would make all of the season's boxes consistant.

:glares at the Paramount DVD makers of the Frasier and Cheers sets:

:and the various Law & Order shows:

 

[nx1701g]

Also, every so often, a DVD sometimes comes loose during transit and gets scratched to hell.

I've had that happen on a number of occasions. Fortunately, to date, none of the DVDs I have that came loose en route to me were scratched to the point where they wouldn't play.

I'm sorry to say I've had that happen.

 

[Trekker4747]

I've never gotten a DVD scratched out of the box.

But, going back to the Frasier sets, the Season 2 set is made of suck. I don't even know how to describe the way the "pages" of the box were atached to the interior spine but, needless to say, it was broke do to a very cheap and flimsy design so the "pages" of the box don't stay in.

.................

So, the "pages" have these llittle rods that slide into these little... "spindle things" that snap into these little clips on the case itself.

Well, when I opened the case the pegs that are on the pages that slide into the "spindle thing" were broken on one side. Which means the page cannot attach to one side of the case. Which further means the pages easy slide out of the other spindle.

It's the dumbest case design I've ever seen.

 

[nx1701g]

I've never gotten a DVD scratched out of the box.

You've been lucky then

 

[Nardpuncher]

WGAS?

 

[Seven of Five]

I have so many DVDs now that inconsistent boxsets don't bother me as much as they used to. The Simpsons 11 boxset already mentioned is a total farce. It contains some of the nicest artwork out of the season sets, but the way the DVDs are stored seemed more of an afterthought.

And this really is a pedantic thread, but I really like that it's here.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Some of the Trek series DVDs have totally awful packaging. That's why I threw all of it away and keep the DVDs in these zip-up sleeve enclosures. It saves space and it's a lot easier to use.

 

[Trekker4747]

Some of the Trek series DVDs have totally awful packaging. That's why I threw all of it away and keep the DVDs in these zip-up sleeve enclosures. It saves space and it's a lot easier to use.

:twitches: