I've not paid too much attention in the past to the DVD releases of DS. Paying for cable in order to get DS the past few years and buying tapes to record the entire series was a significant financial commitment for me, and to then begin buying the DVDs has seemed out of the question. Now I'm getting worried though, since I've been reading recently that VCRs will be phased out very quickly in the next couple of years once HDTV becomes the standard. Already it's difficult to even find blank VHS tapes to buy at places like Best Buy and I was told that everyone now has TIVO, which I don't really even know what it is.
Last week I received a catalogue in the mail from MPI and took note of the DVD releases. A comment and a question come to mind. I roughly added up what it would cost to purchase all the DVD sets of DS listed in the catalogue, and it came to about $2,000 -- and that's only about midway through the 1897 storyline. So the entire set would be at least $4,000. Or substantially more, since: the DVD collection apparently begins with the Barnabas storyline! I had thought that they started at the beginning of the series, but those were not listed in the catalogue!
It's disheartening to learn that all the videos I've carefully selected over the years and the things I've taped will do me little good in the near future.