Box Sets...
 

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.

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.

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.

Phil

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.

i bought the first 5 seasons of The Simpsons, and the first 3 seasons of Futurama, and they are all great with great stuff.

Ugh - I only watched one episode and was totally disappointed. Never wanted to watch it again.

It's only worth it if that's what you're willing to pay for it!

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.