Customer Reviews

The Larry Sanders Show : Season 1

5 star:		(47)
4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(9)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

I agree that this is one of the worst looking DVD's I have seen in a long time. (I don't have top of the line equipment either) The picture looked as if it were constantly raining. The digital artifacts are ever present, and annoying. I found myself so distracted, on several occasions, by how bad it looked, that i actually lost my place. I would not recommed this to anyone. Unless, like me, you missed the first few season on HBO

I have to agree with many other opinions that the quality of the transfer to DVD is poor. Only an interview with fat, gay television critic, Tom Shales. I only hope that it is decided to release the remaining seasons with more thought given to the process and the medium. I would hate to give my money to the bootleggers rather than Shandling and Co. but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.

The Larry Sanders Show is one of my favorite comedy shows. Excellent comedy writing -- this show still makes me laugh. BUT this DVD is of poor quality. I can get a better picture recording off my VCR. I have to say I was very disappointed in this DVD. There is only an interview of Gary Shandling and I was hoping there would be other bonuses on this disc.

Let's get one thing straight right off the bat: I love the Larry Sanders Show. I can't get enough of it...I think it's probably one of the funniest, most brilliant and wonderful shows ever to have graced television (which I generally hate otherwise). However, this DVD is such a shockingly horrendous offering that it's not just an insult to the fan/buyer, but a huge one to the show as well. The video and quality both are just so poor that it's completely ridiculous. I can't believe they even had the gall to release this product in this condition. As has been stated by others many times already, the video is easily the worst I've ever seen on any DVD, to the point where dated, VCR-taped episodes are better. And the audio is average at best. Just appalling. In my case, I am such a rabid fan of both the show and of DVDs themselves that I had to buy this, even knowing in advance of the product's shortcomings, but most others are probably better advised to balk...aside from the poor presentation quality, there are no extras here at all aside from one interview. None of the possibilities that make the DVD medium so exciting was realized...no extra languages, no dolby digital, no bios or "making of" info or anything.

This is a spectacular show, very much undeserving of the slap in the face that this first DVD represents (both to it and its buyers). I truly hope Sony (who has now taken over, apparently) does right by this show and its customers with the subsequent seasons.

Love the show. Hate the DVD. Until now, the DVD release of Pride & Prejudice was at the top of my all-time worst DVD transfers list. But this title has replaced it. The image is astoundingly soft, and there is a mind-boggling amount of compression artifacting and pixelization. On my 57" set, it is virtually unwatchable. When there's a long shot of a character, the image is so pixelized and blurry, I often can't tell who I'm looking at. To top it off, colour levels are low, and contrast is poor. Shame on Columbia TriStar and Sony! Everyone who bought this title deserves a refund, or a replacement copy (once CTHV smartens up and releases the "special edition" version of this set, with improved picture).

Drew

I can only echo the sentiments already expressed.
The single star is for technical merit.
The shows deserves 6.0 stars.
What a waste of silicon.

Let me start by saying that this is not a review of the show. Larry Sanders is a great show and deserves five stars. The DVD of the show, however, is awful. The picture is grainy and fuzzy -- as if the DVD transfer was made from a videotape created when the show first aired on HBO, and which was recently discovered while cleaning out the basement. A major selling point for watching a DVD is that the picture is noticeably better than cable tv or VHS tapes. With this DVD, the opposite is true. Reruns of Larry Sanders on HBO look better than the DVD.

The 1st Season of this outstanding show (one of the best HBO and sitcoms in general) has been out for several years now. BRING OUT THE REST OF THEM ALREADY, PLEEEEAAASE!

LOVE The Larry Sanders Show...it's a gem. But I can't believe Columbia Tristar couldn't have done a better job with the first season DVD set. The picture quality is dreadful. The menu design looks like something you'd see on one of those B-movie DVDs you can fish out of the Wal-Mart bargain bin. There are no chapters within the episodes, so if you have to stop the DVD player in the middle of an ep, you have to FF through the ep to find your place again. Ridiculous!

I can only hope that the delay in getting Season Two out on DVD means that Columbia is putting a little more attention into the production and design this time around. This is one of the funniest, best-written shows that has ever graced a TV screen--it deserves SO much better!

Outstanding story lines and characterizations. The cast is wonderful (especially Rip Torn and Jeffrey Tambor). When will the remaining seasons be released???