# The best thing with DVD.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 30, 2003, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-thing-with-dvd/178416 "2003-05-30T00:58:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-thing-with-dvd/178416/1 "2003-05-30T00:58:16Z")
I was just browsing the site where I purrchase almost all my DVD’s, when I realized that the things I’m buying are TV-shows. It started with **Buffy**. Then **Angel**. Then I started buying **Red Dwarf** and I recently got **The Prisoner** (lame DVD, BTW). Sure, it’s fun to have some movies, but the thing that’s the best for me is that tv-shows, that was never available, are being put on DVD and sold for a bargain. Back in the days of VHS, it was basically Star Trek and maybe some other Sci-Fi shows. Buying it on VHS was bulky and awkward. Now, I get a whole season of Buffy in a package the size of a paperback. So… How about you guys - are you buying TV-shows or movies? ---
**Author:** ![Eternal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-thing-with-dvd/178416/2 "2003-05-30T01:00:29Z")
I’ve only bought the **Family Guy** season one, because I know I’ll never see that show in syndication. It also helps that it’s fantastic, even if the extras are scant. ---
**Author:** ![Eternal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-thing-with-dvd/178416/3 "2003-05-30T01:01:49Z")
Actually, it’s Season One + Two. Sah-wee ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-thing-with-dvd/178416/4 "2003-05-30T01:33:37Z")
**Eternal** , if you get Cartoon Network, they’ve been showing Family Guy weekdays at 11:30 EST for quite a while. I love teevee shows on DVD. I’ve got a bunch of seasons of The X-Files (right up until it began to really suck), every season of Star Trek TNG, and some Simpsons and Family Guy episodes too. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-thing-with-dvd/178416/5 "2003-05-30T03:42:56Z")
I love TV show DVDs! So far we’ve got Simpsons Season 1 and Season 2 Jeeves and Wooster Seasons 1, 2, and 3 Blackadder I, II, III, IV The Mr. Bean Box Set Fawlty Towers Family Guy Seasons 1 and 2 Red Dwarf Seasons 1 and 2 MST3K Volumes 1, 2, and 3 and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-thing-with-dvd/178416/6 "2003-05-30T08:19:02Z")
**peter kays phoenix nights** on DVD. all round excellence ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-thing-with-dvd/178416/7 "2003-05-30T09:54:19Z")
I swear my DVD sets are breeding behind my back. _Space:1999_, _UFO_, _Sapphire and Steel_ … and there are some really good obscure shows coming out, too, like _Moonbase 3_ and _Children of the Stones_… I’ve built up a worryingly large library. (The _Prisoner_ set is notoriously afflicted with encoding artifacts, though … ) ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-thing-with-dvd/178416/8 "2003-05-30T11:17:38Z")
They’re not encoding artifacts. They’re messages to your spinal cord. THEY seek to subvert the subversives… ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-thing-with-dvd/178416/9 "2003-05-30T11:42:37Z")
I guess this is a slight hijack, but I got miffed by the Prisoner package. The only extras are “The bells of Big Ben” in an alternative version + a really crappy documentary (from the 80’s?) about the prisoner, which only consisted of clips from the episodes and a boring narrative. I don’t count the stills galleries. Why not an Interview with McGoohan (I don’t feel he resents the whole thing), more about the phenomenon. It was just crappy, especially for such a famed, controversial, almost mythical TV-show. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-thing-with-dvd/178416/10 "2003-05-30T12:43:20Z")
Although I have 230 DVDs (not counting box sets), few of them are TV series collections because there arenot that many TV shows I’m so enamored of that I’m willing to drop $50-80 on. So far, I have **Babylon 5 Seasons 1 and 2 Simpsons Seasons 1 and 2 Futurama Volume 1 Family Guy Volume 1 Buffy Seasons 1-3** I foresee buying **Buffy Season 4** (coming June 10) plus **Babylon 5 Season 3** and **The Simpsons Season 3** (both coming in August). There are some shows I would like to get, but I refuse to pay $100-150 dollars for ( **Star Trek: Deep Space Nine** and **The X-Files** , for example) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-thing-with-dvd/178416/11 "2003-05-30T12:51:11Z")
Just got Futurama Season 2 the other day, to add to my growing TV collection. I also have, as a couple of hidden gems, Count Duckula and Danger Mouse collections. ---
**Author:** ![sirtonyh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-thing-with-dvd/178416/12 "2003-05-30T17:11:32Z")
I’ve got the first 4 seasons of the X-Files but gave up buying them after that because the show got too repetetive. Also, I have the first 8 seasons of Friends, and I’ll buy the last 2 when they are available. Same goes with Sex and the City; I have the first 4 and will buy the rest when they are available. I’ve bought the first 2 seasons of The Sopranos and I’m still contemplating whether to continue buying them or not. I heard some not too great things about series 3. I also have the first seasons of 24 and 6 Feet Under and the first couple of South Park. I heard a rumour that maybe Seinfeld was coming out. I’m guessing that show ran for about 10 or 12 years so my bank manager should expect a heart attack when that is available 😃