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1.0 out of 5 stars
A Great Show Disappointingly Transferred and Packaged, Dec 30 2005
Okay, I've been meaning to deal with my feelings about this DVD release for some time now. Here goes...It would have been nice if other reviewers had remembered that they were rating this DVD release, not the TV show itself. As such, HBO has received ratings for this DVD release that are ridiculously high and quite simply not justified. Congratulations on telling HBO that their viewers are suckers who will pay anything for their favourite shows in any substandard format. The video quality is so grainy and poor that it looks like it was downloaded from the Internet (at a low resolution). This makes me pause to wonder what the show would actually look like downloaded from the Internet - TV static, perhaps? - but I digress. You are paying full price for 50% of the number of episodes you would get in a season of Friends, for example. So if you are missing any of the seasons of Friends, go out and buy that instead. With Friends, you'll get twice as many episodes of an equally great show, but with episodes of a professional-looking and -sounding quality, and real - actually fun - extras. Which reminds me: the extras for the Sex and the City are woefully inadequate. A few minutes of Sarah Jessica Parker speaking generally about the show and some other, even more lame and equally short craptacular feature are the "extras". The packaging itself is cheap plastic, perhaps an HBO-patented package called Craptic (TM) that will rip, dent and mangle with normal handling. And now, for those Sex and the City diehards who weren't gouged enough paying for substandard season sets, they now face the release of the complete set with a number of extras included. A slap in the face, really, although it appears that I am the exception in that I don't believe I should have to pay twice for the bare minimum of what I should have gotten the first time. All in all, with the low quality, low number of episodes per season and lacking features, HBO should have been selling these out of the back of a van in the back of an alley somewhere. I have actually refused to buy any seasons of this show after the first. I refuse to pay a premium price for substandard fare, so I borrowed them from a friend who had already been gouged instead. Happy Viewing!
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