I kinda wanted more from the DVDs. Not more episodes...40 per set is fine. But more bonus features. The interviews are nice, but (having only scanned them) they are rather old, as footage from them showed up on Behind the Scenes tape and that was released close to a decade ago.
Supposedly the stars have done new interviews that will show up on later DVD releases.
Maybe 1 episode per disc could have an audio commentary from one of the actors! Or in the future, the first episode that an actor appears in could get an audio commentary from said actor.
Now that's a great idea.
I also wish there were chapter stops within the episode. Having the entire episode as one chapter stop still will mean a lot of fast forwarding and rewinding vs. a lot of nexts!
I suppose they figure that because episodes only last about 20 minutes, putting chapter stops for every act would be a bit excessive.
Anyway, I realize that all costs $$ and so is not likely to happen, but it would be nice!
Like Dean, my DVDs play fine on both my PC's DVD drive and my player (a Panasonic), so I don't really have any complaints there. And the episode transfers are really quite pristine:
DVD versus VHS
(And best of all, no video noise on DVD!)
So, no complaints there either. But I do have two fairly minor issues:
- I honestly dislike the fact that there's no way to bypass playing the menu introduction every time you put a DVD in. Don't get me wrong, I think whoever dreamed up the menu graphics did a good job - love the thunder and lightning, the rolling clouds, and how we pass through the woods to Collinwood:
And I particularly like how we zoom in on the window when we select an episode:
But I've yet to come across a DVD that doesn't let me bypass the menu introduction to go to whatever selection menu I might choose to. And being able to do that would have cost no extra money whatsoever - it would have simply been a matter of writing the code a little differently.
- And secondly (and no one who knows me is going to be surprised by this complaint at all ), I dislike the fact that Barnabas is the only character whose images cycle on the selection menu:
Granted, Barnabas is probably DS' most popular character. He's certainly its most identifiable. But to ignore the other characters' contributions to these episodes as if they don't exist and to focus solely on Barnabas is myopic at best. Hopefully a broader range of characters will be featured on future releases.
PS. This is my very 1st post....so hopefully I did alright!
You did great! Welcome to the forum.