love Weeds - disappointed in BD format
595835
okay, I got in to Weeds on a recommendation from a friend...I am totally addicted.  This review is not about the show but, about the format.  I went with Blu-ray format so I could check it out on my new LED television and BD player.  I am a bit disappointed in the quality - it is little better than a standard DVD that has been up-converted.  I was able to get seasons 1-3 on sale at Amazon for same price as the regular DVD so, at least I didn't over-pay.  But, if I had shelled out the full-price, I would be upset about it.  If you can get it on sale, go for it.  But, don't expect a lot of WOW factor.
4273532
I was looking forward to this product to use in my classroom for an astronomy class, but it will not play in my Sony Blue-ray player because evidently it is coded for all regions and not region 1. Amazon states as it's troubleshooting policy that it sells only region 1 blue-ray discs, but this is not region 1 and it says in the product description that it is all regions. I shouldn't have to buy an all region player just to view this dvd. I am hoping amazon will let me return it opened because this Blue-ray goes against their stated policy. I would like to know how all the other reviewers were able to play it. Is there anything I need to change on y Blue-ray player in order to play this disc?
378619
First I have to say, I'm a huge fan of Sunrise Earth which used to air in the mornings on Discovery HD Theater before it became the Velocity channel. I own all the Sunrise Earth releases and often spend a weekend morning with a Sunrise Earth blu-ray and a cup of coffee. The aim of these programs is to provide an as-if-you-were-there-at-sunrise experience in super clear HD with only ambient sound. No music, no voice-over, just as close to a first-hand experience as possible.
After watching Gaiam's preview video, my guess is that this blu-ray will be a re-package of four previously released Sunrise Earth episodes, "Island First Light" (Acadia National Park, Maine), "Yellowstone Geysers", "Yosemite Dawn" and "Everglades: River of Grass". These are all excellent Sunrise Earth episodes, visually stunning in gorgeous HD. I recommend this video to anyone who doesn't already own these episodes.
I am also HOPING that this disk will include "High Desert Arches" (Arches National Park) as the cover suggests and perhaps the Morning Drive episode featuring Acadia National Park. I will update this review once I receive it.

Also sending out a plea to Gaia to offer on blu-ray, or on Amazon Instant, the rest of the 27 Sunrise Earth episodes that were never released, most especially the "Viewer's Choice" episodes from Season 5. These episodes are too good to keep in a vault somewhere. Thanks to Gaia, Discovery and Compass Light for these amazing programs.

UPDATE:  I received my copy today and, yes, this blu-ray is a re-package that includes the following episodes: "Island First Light" (Acadia National Park, Maine), "Yellowstone Geysers", "Yosemite Dawn" and "Everglades: River of Grass". No other content is included. My recommendation is that if you do not already own these episodes, then please pick up this blu-ray today. The presentation is stunning with top-notch HD photography and these are some of the very best Sunrise Earth episodes.
But while I am excited that a new Sunrise Earth blu-ray has been released, I am disappointed that all the episodes on this disc have been previously released. Discovery and Gaiam missed an opportunity here to include some episodes that long-time fans of this show would like to own, particularly "High Desert Arches" which, strangely, is pictured on the (very nice) cover but is not included. Even one new episode would probably have enticed fans who own all the previous releases to buy this one as well. Here's hoping this new package sells well, creates many new Sunrise Earth fans, and that Gaiam will follow up this release with more either on disc or through Amazon Instant.
4102418
I have it on every other format. Why not digital?
4917341
B5 is my favorite sci-fi series, and that's saying a lot coming from this hard-core nerd.

I so wanted to love this release. But despite fabulous effects sequences and good acting it's all talk and no action. It was nice to see my favorite characters again. But they spend all their time talking about what the could or might do and mere seconds doing anything at all.

On the plus side, the production values are superb. This "enhanced for widescreen TVs" DVD looks amazing on my 50" hi-def plasma screen. It looks almost as good as actual hi-def HD DVD movies. This disc is as good as any standard-def DVD will ever be.

Another disappointment is the content to cost ratio. This release costs more than double any other B5 release. And it's nearly six times more expensive than any of the 22 episode seasons. Here's some examples of what I mean.

$17 /  72 minutes = 0.23 - Lost Tales
$15 / 132 minutes = 0.11 - Legend of the Rangers
$48 / 471 minutes = 0.10 - The Movie Collection
$38 / 960 minutes = 0.04 - Any 22 episode season
$48 / 576 minutes = 0.08 - B5 Crusade - 13 episode series

For what you get, this release would be fairly priced at $3 to $7. For $17 I was expecting a movie, not an episode just over an hour. Buy this only if you have already bought every single other B5 release and you feel you must own everything.

Sorry, JMS. For the first time in your wonderful franchise you let me down. I'll be renting and not buy future releases of this straight to DVD series.
2660571
The DVD is fine but once again like the documentary "We are twisted f****** sister" [BD] that I also ordered, the blue disc in this package does not play in my [BD]player. Is this some kind of encryption issue? Somebody explain this to me, because all my other Blu-ray discs play fine in my player many of them are brand new as well.
2651688
I just bought companion title to this disk, on Bali.
Also Living Landscapes Blu-ray.
The player I have is a nearly new Sony Blu-ray player about 3 months old and I have played many other commerically produced Blu-ray disks by regular film studios and they all play until this Blu-ray disk on BALI.  It says cannont play the disk on the screen.
Why is there a compatability issue if the disk is Blu-ray and the machine is a Sony, the main backer and maker of Blu-ray format and machines.
Very upset about this and I have called LIVING LANDSCAPES twice on the phone number on the cover of the disk and they do not return my calls.  I get the feeling they are a very small time operation and who knows about the quality control of their disk burning.  I could not tell from the outside of the cover if the disk was really Blu-ray as no place on the cover does it say Blu-ray, but it was in the traditional Blu-ray BLUE PLASTIC disk cover.  Inside package the actual disk DOES say Blu-ray but when placed in machine the Sony player says cannot play disk!!!!!!
NOW WHAT?<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Living-Landscapes-HD-Bali-Blu-ray/dp/B000PTYKB6/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Living Landscapes HD Bali [Blu-ray</a>]
2136504
I'm disgusted with New Line releasing this version on BluRay when the format can have both versions on one disk.
Blatant attempt the bleed the market. I just hope there aren't too many stupid people around to fall for this.
***PLEASE DO NOT BUY THIS VERSION AND WAIT FOR THE EXTENDED VERSION***
2987101
Please make a format for USA and Canada region specific Blu ray specific areas!! I've been waiting for years...how hard can this be as there is a market for it!!! This is so annoying!
320258
I orded the blue ray edition only to find that instead of all 78 episodes it only contained 52. Furher more the Blueray case it self was cracked on both sides of the binding and though the pokedex box was very nice. It seems like a drastic oversight that they left out half of the series on blueray but gave all 72 episodes on DVD! I mean really WTF?! I paid extra money for quality and all I got was what I saw on netflix already.
1886688
I would love to see a BD of this second Dune movie, I order it, and find out it can not play on my Blue Ray cassette machine. What a disappointment. It would have been nice for Amazon to tell us this version will not play on US machines!
2239644
I loved this show back in the 90's when it originally aired. So much so, that I waited years to see the last episode, after it was released on DVD, since the show's air time was moved around so many times by the network and sometimes wasn't aired at all. The episodes on the DVDs were out of order, entered by air date and not in chronological order. But that was easily fixed by manually selecting each episode I wanted to watch. I'm not sure if the download version has addressed this problem yet, as I'm only three episodes in.

I was hoping the download would be better than the DVD, but sadly, the first episode was really dark and grainy and I had to "Pop Out" to another screen to see it at all. By the way, my laptop is only a few months old, so I know that isn't the problem. Besides, I haven't had this problem  streaming anything else. The quality of the second and third episodes was better, but I also "Popped" them out, too. I'm also disappointed that there isn't a Closed Captioning option. Maybe there is, but I haven't found it yet. I stream on NETFLIX all the time. Their options are easy to find and use and the video and sound quality are great. This is my first streaming experience on Amazon and there are some problems that really should be simple to fix.  For example, it should automatically play the next episode of any show. I don't like that I have to go back to the library to choose the next episode. There should be a way to set this feature to auto-play all the episodes back to back.

I don't know if the quality issue is unique to this show, since it predates most of the digital age, or if this is an indication of Amazon's general download video quality. I was thinking of signing up for Prime, but now I'm having second thoughts. Then again, maybe this problem is unique and other people who buy this show won't have the problems I'm having. It's a great show. I've always wished there were more episodes. And I will watch all of the episodes I have now, despite the quality issue. So if you've missed it and wanted to see it again try it out. Maybe you won't notice the tech issues. Or maybe you won't care.
1891914
Bummer.  "Weeds" was good and "The Price You Pay" had an interesting twist.  The others were mediocre to bad.
4111379
Apparently "Specially formatted digital edition! " means "cheap, cranked out by an intern" edition. Why on earth did they release the remainder of the Bloom County collections in such a sorry format? Oh, wait, I forgot: to  make a lot of money with as little effort as possible, hoping that enough people will buy it and not say anything to have made this shoddy effort worth risking customer dissatisfaction.
4602324
Netflix version of this Blu-Ray disc won't play in a BD390 Blu-Ray player.  Tried two different copies.  First disc I've seen that won't play in this player.
1038831
Packaging is a pain when looking for a particular disk. Basically there are two really deep disk holders with half the disks piled on each one, so you have to pull off every disk before the one you want to reach and set them somewhere until you can fish out the desired disk. Definitely will move into a movie binder later on.

Would have preferred black and white, but you get used to the colorized version. It's funny though because you can see when they switch from colorized to natural color.

Some episodes did have a little trouble loading, and out of nowhere some disks had advertisements in the beginning, but I can deal with it for the price as all of them do work.
2896559
THE SHOW GETS A 5/5 but the publishing is what made me rate it 3/5.

While I'm happy that I have a copy of Free! on home video, I find myself regretting this purchase the minute the disc loaded. I'm really disappointed that Crunchyroll didn't publish this anime on Blu-Ray because this animation really deserves it. So if you get a copy, EXPECT STANDARD DEFINITION DVD QUALITY!

Here's where I'm gonna get picky:

 The DVD comes in a cardboard sleeve with what looks to be a traced version of official artwork. I mean, you can see the product image on this page...it looks like a bootleg design. I legitimately thought this was a bootleg until I saw it on Crunchyroll's site. There are literally DOZENS of official artwork images that could have been used for the cover and I'm finding it hard to believe that Eastern Star (the packaging and design company) didn't obtain rights to use ONE of those images or receive some from Crunchyroll or Discotek.

 The top menu...leaves much to be desired. There's a stretched out image as the background with the 6 episode titles on the lower half, along with subtitle options. All on one menu. It's a bit hard at first to realize what words you're highlighting as the "hover" color is just a lighter blue color. I mean, it gets the job done, but it's another reason this makes it look bootlegged.

 The subtitles look awful. Yes, they're legible, but couldn't they have chosen a better-looking typeface? The subtitles are large and pixelated, and look blown-up. If it didn't look like a bootleg from the cover, then the subtitles sure seem to do the trick.

 The video quality itself is sub-par. It's most definitely not 1080p, as the image has a bit of a blur to it and not as crisp as the quality seen on Crunchyroll itself. And for some reason, the DVD picture has a blurry black border on the sides of the video, almost as if the video was not cropped correctly. (This appears on my PS4, PS3, iMac, and DVD player).

I left a photo with full screen screen-caps showing the differences between Crunchyroll's stream quality VS. DVD quality (both screen-capped from an iMac). There you can see the major differences.

So unless you feel like you need a physical copy of this series in your hands, do yourselves a favor and watch this series from Crunchyroll, provided that you're willing to pay the premium membership to get HD quality.