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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | A bit pricey but this looks like it could be a nice set. HERE | | | | Hal |
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| Registered: May 8, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,945 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thought about this too, but its so damn expensive  | | | | www.tvmaze.com |
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting DarklyNoon: Quote:
Thought about this too, but its so damn expensive Likewise. I'm still contemplating whether or not I can afford it. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,774 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting DarklyNoon: Quote:
Thought about this too, but its so damn expensive Compared to the crappy german DVDs, where you have to wait until this fall to buy a splitted third season for about 30€ (so it costs you 60€ for the complete third season) which also misses most of the extras... And BluRays are not even annoced. They would have a price of about 60-80€ for every season, too. And season 4 won't be released in germany before fall 2010.  At the moment the exchange rate is not bad, so this set would cost me about 180€ and I say: YES!  |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 452 |
| | Posted: | | | | Why is this expensive? It's the complete series on Blu-ray! |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,745 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Peter von Frosta: Quote:
Why is this expensive? It's $245 for 3 full seasons, 1 half-season, a movie and a mini-series. | | | Karsten
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| | Posted: | | | | Quoting DJ Doena: Quote:
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Why is this expensive?
It's $245 for 3 full seasons, 1 half-season, a movie and a mini-series. Compared to the pricing here in germany I don't think it's too expensive. Just saw the following prices at a "Saturn": Lost Season 4 (only 14 episodes): 64,99€ Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (only 9 episodes): 54,99€ Band of Brothers (only 10 episodes): 89,99€ (!!!) Sure, you get them a bit cheaper when ordering online, but one a pure "price per episode"-level the BSG-set has a more than fair price IMHO. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,745 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting SpaceFreakMicha: Quote:
Compared to the pricing here in germany I don't think it's too expensive. Just saw the following prices at a "Saturn" C'mon, Saturn? Everybody knows that you can't find a store in Germany where you pay more for anything than in a Saturn. You still pay a hundred dollars more for the Blu-ray than for the DVD: BSG at Amazon UK for 89 GBP (140 USD)The entire show has an approximate runtime of 3600 minutes (60 hours). The DVD costs you 2.33 $/hour; Blu-ray 4.08 $/hour. | | | Karsten
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,774 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting DJ Doena: Quote:
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Compared to the pricing here in germany I don't think it's too expensive. Just saw the following prices at a "Saturn"
C'mon, Saturn? Everybody knows that you can't find a store in Germany where you pay more for anything than in a Saturn.
You still pay a hundred dollars more for the Blu-ray than for the DVD:
BSG at Amazon UK for 89 GBP (140 USD)
DVD costs you 2.33 $/hour; Blu-ray 4.08 $/hour. Don't know about the BluRays, but the UK-DVDs are missing most of the extra features. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 452 |
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Compared to the pricing here in germany I don't think it's too expensive. Just saw the following prices at a "Saturn"
You still pay a hundred dollars more for the Blu-ray than for the DVD:
That's to be expected, isn't it? | | | | Last edited: by Peter von Frosta |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 452 |
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Compared to the pricing here in germany I don't think it's too expensive. Just saw the following prices at a "Saturn"
C'mon, Saturn? Everybody knows that you can't find a store in Germany where you pay more for anything than in a Saturn.
You still pay a hundred dollars more for the Blu-ray than for the DVD:
BSG at Amazon UK for 89 GBP (140 USD)
The entire show has an approximate runtime of 3600 minutes (60 hours).
The DVD costs you 2.33 $/hour; Blu-ray 4.08 $/hour. The box is only that cheap for us because of the weak GBP. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,745 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Peter von Frosta: Quote:
That's to be expected, isn't it? No it's not. Why should it? Is there work involved in creating a Blu-ray instead of a DVD that's worth a hundred dollars more? The Blu-ray has a bigger storage capacity so the authoring guy has to lower the compression rate. That's about it. Quoting Peter von Frosta: Quote:
The box is only that cheap for us because of the weak GBP. First of all I made a GBP/USD comparison. Second of all the dollar isn't on a high either. | | | Karsten
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| Registered: February 23, 2009 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 1,580 |
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That's to be expected, isn't it?
No it's not. Why should it? Is there work involved in creating a Blu-ray instead of a DVD that's worth a hundred dollars more? The Blu-ray has a bigger storage capacity so the authoring guy has to lower the compression rate. That's about it. Well, for starters, BD discs are still more expensive to produce than DVD discs. More importantly, for all we know, the studio will add a new lossless audio remix and clean up the image to get a good 1080p visual (and not a crappy upconverted picture). BD specific extra's like PiP, BD Live and such is also a possibility. All that is worth the extra money for me. | | | Blu-ray collection
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,774 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting DJ Doena: Quote:
C'mon, Saturn? Everybody knows that you can't find a store in Germany where you pay more for anything than in a Saturn. Cheapest online prices according to dvd-palace.de: Lost Season 4 (only 14 episodes): 62,99€ Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (only 9 episodes): 39,95€ Band of Brothers (only 10 episodes): 62,97€ BSG - Complete = 74 episodes (not counting "MiniSeries" and "Razor") = ~180€ divided by 74 = 2,43€ per episodein comparion to: Lost Season 4 (only 14 episodes): 62,99€ divided by 14 = 4,50€ per episodeTerminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (only 9 episodes): 39,95€ divided by 9 = 4,44€ per episodeBand of Brothers (only 10 episodes): 62,97€ divided by 10 = 6,30€ per episode | | | | Last edited: by SpaceFreakMicha |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,745 |
| | Posted: | | | | Micha,
explain to me why you compare the US Blu-ray market with the german DVD market? It's like comparing the gas milage of a Toyota Prius with that of an M1A1 Abrams tank.
I totally agree with you that the german series DVDs are heavily overpriced. That's the reason most of my stuff comes from UK or US.
But if you want to be fair, you have to compare the prices in the same market, for example:
Lost S4 costs $36.99 on Amazon US. That makes 2.64$ per episode.
The BSG box (245/74) costs 3.31$ per episode
I paid 25.56€ for the fourth Lost season (Ama UK) -> 1.82€/ep
And when I bought BoB as a gift for my cousin, I paid 19.99€ for the uncut version in a MediaMarkt.
All I was trying to say was that it is too expensive in my opinion. I paid only 80 dollars for the entire Buffy series (7 seasons, 144 episodes) or 90 pounds Friends (10 seasons, 236 eps). | | | Karsten
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