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Anyone noticed B5 DVD repackaging

Anla'Shok Douglas NicolAnla'Shok Douglas Nicol Ranger
in Babylon 5
I haven't been on lately due to various problems at home but I don't know if this is news or not.

First off.....B5 box sets are available cheaply.

WH Smiths in the UK have them at £24.99

HMV at £29.99

What I noticed is that the much maligned packaging has been done away with and individual slimline DVD cases for each disc are now the norm.

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  • David of MacDavid of Mac Elite Ranger Ca
    This is a little off-topic, but....

    I just picked the B5 movie collection, noticed something right off; The "banner" of screen caps on each disc is taken from its counterpart on the Season 5 set.

    Ouch.

    And there's only one opening menu movie, but each movie has its own color scheme, so the movie goes to black before going to the menu proper. And the opening movie shows several clips, all but one of which are from In The Beginning.

    Double ouch.

    And I haven't heard this mentioned yet. This seems just a tad worse than the upside-down Minbari ship, for instance. Come on, people, I thought you were supposed to be picky! ;)

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    Anyway, on topic, that sounds like good news. It'd be better if they'd done it from the beginning, though. Somewhere, some anal-retentive fan is going to pop a blood vessel because his DVD packaging doesn't match up.
  • Anla'Shok Douglas NicolAnla'Shok Douglas Nicol Ranger
    [QUOTE][i]Somewhere, some anal-retentive fan is going to pop a blood vessel because his DVD packaging doesn't match up. [/B][/QUOTE]

    Not quite, the spines of the mini DVD boxes still form up into the B5 station logo as seen before.
  • David of MacDavid of Mac Elite Ranger Ca
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Imhotep [/i]
    [B]I due believe we had mentioned already the re-use of the Season 5 DVD labels.[/B][/QUOTE]

    I looked back on some older topics to see if I missed it somehow, but I guess I wasn't thorough enough. Or maybe it just wasn't mentioned [i]here.[/i]

    Of course, I am glad to have them. Finally saw Thirdspace and A Call to Arms. I'll probably watch River of Souls in the next couple days, and then I'll get the Crusade set a few weeks later, and will have seen all of Babylon 5 that has yet been created! All will bow before me!

    Or not. ;)
  • Falcon1Falcon1 Elite Ranger
    Don't forget LOTR... we should be seeing that released at some point next year.
  • David of MacDavid of Mac Elite Ranger Ca
    Yes, but I my sister sent me that on tape when it first came out. ;)
  • eminariiortaeminariiorta Moderator
    Not that I wanna show off or anything but I've got all 5 Seasons of B5 on DVD + the movie boxset. LOTR on VHS which I had to import for £25.99 from Australia! and a limited edition Crusade VHS boxset. So not only have i seen it all but I own it all as well

    :robot: :D

    But I hated the slimline dvd case things they've done with the UK editions so I got the Region 1 versions which have the better cases.
  • Anla'Shok Douglas NicolAnla'Shok Douglas Nicol Ranger
    The slimline cases have got to be better than the ones used before where there were a hell of a lot of damaged discs.
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