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Old 11-24-2005, 06:47 PM
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I've just bought a box set for Buffy the Vampire Slayer 39 discs i think for £129.99, do you think box sets are value for money and worth the wait in them dropping the price as the Friends box set is £170 and LOTR box set is £50. Do you buy box sets, are they over priced and are they value for money?

The buffy box set is definitely worth the money.
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Old 11-24-2005, 06:54 PM
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Generally I don't think TV show boxsets are worth it, before the big Buffy boxset each season was around £40 and not worth it, but for £130 for 7 seasons on 39 discs I think that is well worth it. I don't think any TV season as a boxset is worth more than around £20, unless it has more than the standard 22-25 episodes.

I think that the most I paid for one was when I got the Taken boxset, it is only 10 episodes but each one is around 90 minutes, that was around £35 at the time of release I think.

I have seen the Lord Of The Rings extended boxset for around £27 though, but it is simply the standard 4 disc sets in a larger box I think. I haven't yet seen a boxset of all 3 giftsets, the ones with the 5th discs per set and the book ends and such.
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I generally buy TV DVD box-sets alot more then movies, and I think they are fantastic value for money. If you buy a drama series on dvd, what you're getting is 3 hours of footage per disc, the same as a movie, and 6/7 disc per set.

One movie usually sets you back in the region of 15-25 euro, therefore 7 movies would cost you anywhere from 100-175 euro.

When you can pick up any top drama series from between 30-70 euro a set, that is incredible value, especially because, for me anyway, I would watch tv shows again and again, compared to a movie which I'd watch rarely after the second time.

Comparatively they're much better value, and you also get more variety, 24 differents episode compared to one movie for a price not that much higher, is far more attractive to me.

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I generally buy TV DVD box-sets alot more then movies, and I think they are fantastic value for money. If you buy a drama series on dvd, what you're getting is 3 hours of footage per disc, the same as a movie, and 6/7 disc per set.
Yeh same here really. If I like a comedy series il nearly always buy the boxset. Its better value for money and it looks better in my collection . I wasnt absoutely mad over "Joey" but I can get the whole series for £18 on DVD and thats 24 episodes so its well worth the money.
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Old 11-24-2005, 11:26 PM
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i bought the first 5 seasons of The Simpsons, and the first 3 seasons of Futurama, and they are all great with great stuff.
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I wasnt absoutely mad over "Joey"
Ugh - I only watched one episode and was totally disappointed. Never wanted to watch it again.
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It's only worth it if that's what you're willing to pay for it!
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Perhaps the issue isn't so much the price of boxsets (be they tv, movie or music) but more the over-pricing of single feature films. I have paid more for a 2 disc special edition of a film than I have for a 4 disc TV series boxset. VHS tapes cost more to manufacture but cost a lot less to buy than the DVD equivelant (though few VHS are sold now I expect)

I think that £15-20 for a boxset of a TV show is reasonable, but £15-£20 for a single disc film is not. I try to buy mine from the US or Canada when I can because they tend to be a few £ cheaper, but still more than they fairly should be, the same goes for CD's.
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