This collection is not good. The dvds skip and freeze from season one ...
593589
This collection is not good. The dvds skip and freeze from season one through season five. I wish I hadn't of bought this
2149754
This series has gotten me through some dark times!  I have watched all of season one and find I have to return the whole set!  I am so disappointed several of the DVD's appear to be damaged. During some of the episodes scenes will freeze and "digital?" squares corrupt the scene. I did not pay for damaged scenes! This series is way to important!
I haven't tried the extra features yet, I expected more of them though. Artwork could be better!
1903799
I am a Friends Fanatic, as many of us are. I know every line in every show. I bought this series having given my previous complete series to my daughter when she went away to college. These DVD's jump & skip constantly & it's very annoying. Have tried the discs on different DVD players to see if it was my (new BLURAY player) that was the problem, but it wasn't. The other issue I have with these discs is that they aren't in order of season. They just come stuck in these flimsy cardboard boxes that don't hold up the more you take them in & out of the boxes. Watching these has become so unpleasant that I am now re-ordering the series again from another source where the seasons are separate.
1463224
Picture is good quality.. But the dvds skip, the sound will go out out of no where, parts where the mouth movements doesnt match the voice (delayed)... May play once or twice, thats about all i got out of this. And only from toy story 2, toy story3 never played through, skipped from the first time i watched it.

NOT recommended
958627
I am a big transformers fan.  I've been following the Transformers since Generation 1.  I am a decent Transformers collectors too.  In fact, I own more than 60 bots and all videos that are available on DVD.  However, I have to say this one is REALLY horrible.
This DVD includes 4 Armada episodes:
  * Metamorphosis (Episode 2)
  * Base (Episode 3)
  * Confrontation (Episode 9)
  * Decisive Battle (Episode 21)
First, in most people's opinion, Armada is THE worst Transformers series.  The story line is dull and the character deisngs are also bad.  However, I saw many, if not all, Armada episodes before I bought this DVD, so I kind of expected this.
Then, it comes the REAL problems of the DVD: the sequence of the episodes and the selection of the episodes.
The sequence is extremely odd.  Well, what IS the sequence?  It is NOT the first 4 episodes of the Armada series, instead, it contains episodes 2, 3, 9, and 21.  It seems like these four episodes are just chosen by random.  At least, I couldn't find out the correlations between them.
The selection is also very weird.  In the TV series, episodes 1 - 3 was a mini-series.  However, the disk only contains episodes 2 and 3.  So the story starts without a real beginning.  In fact, if you have never seen Armada before, you will be wondering what's going on.  Well, the story line should be easy enough to figure out, but you'll still lose a lot of the story line.
I bought the DVD only for the sake of having a completed Transformers DVD collection.  I really hope Rhino releases some sort of boxed set which is a REAL collection.  As of now, buy it ONLY if you are a HUGE fan and want to keep your collection completed.  After all, you should be able to get it between $8 - $9, it may not a big deal to waste the money just to keep the collection completed.  Otherwise, forget about this one.
4469999
Season 3 Parts 1 and 2 are good shows, but the quality on these DVDs is poor.  No disc menu exists.  There are no extra features.  Basically, someone dumped all the shows on a dvd and called it good.  You can't take the DVD out of your player or you will have to start from the beginning and "forward" through all the shows to get where you left off or to find your favorite episode.  My family loves this show, but the disc quality for Season 3 is not worth $30 for each part.  This was very disappointing.
3957130
This is also for Dvd and Blue Ray, For the Dvd part what a collection but hopefully they do not skip or miss episodes like the first Season did when it was Side A and Side B.
he Sound quality is not so great and it comes in a box format and if you want to change it you have to switch to wide screen on your tv remote for screen.
Good show, Great music
2074622
I ordered this item in August of 2014.  I am just now getting through the discs.  When I read the description of this set, I did not see anywhere that there were defects with any of the discs.  But every now & then it flashes on the screen that there may be issues with the quality.  So far I had one disc in the 2nd season where the picture froze totally and would not continue.  I am now in the 3rd season and have one whole disc (#3) that will not play at all.  It says disc error.  I have tried it with my dvd player and also on my computer and it won't play on either one.  I would not have purchased something this expensive if I had known that there were defects.  I do not recommend this set to anyone unless you don't care if you can watch all the shows.
1054610
Still a pretty good value, but Season 2 goes quite a ways downhill:

-1 star: The picture quality is HORRIBLE in many of the episodes, with really bad pixellation that is irritating to watch, while other episodes have the same great quality as all of Season 1 seemingly at random. Lame!
-2 stars: Something happened to Cringer's voice in this season. It raises an octave and consists mostly of a high-pitched squeal that is terribly grating. Trust me, its bad! Also, the cheese factor and goofy humor starts getting bothersome this season.
-3 stars: The packaging is the same cheap pile of envelopes as Season 1 (you get what you pay for, of course). I bought an 8-disc DVD case here on Amazon to solve that problem and got creative with the cover art to make it fit.
+1 star: One thing I really like about these sets is the graphics on the discs themselves. Each disc has a big colorful picture of a different character, and its fun for the kids to flip through once you've put them in a proper DVD case. Also, when you pop in the disc the main menu comes up in just a few seconds. No need to fast-forward, or even worse, sit through those awful 'this operation currently prohibited' segments. Thank goodness!

Really, though. Stick with Season 1 if you're unsure about the purchase. There's plenty of awesome great priced He-man content there without the poor picture quality and poor Cringer squealing like a guinea pig.
1217486
After reading the reviews on this DVD I decided to buy it because I have purchased back in 2015,  5 of her DVDs and love every one of them.  I was very disappointed in this one and 5 Boosted Miles (purchased at the same time) because both of them had at least 10 freezes/stops in them.  I could not continue playing them because I was very frustrated with the freezes/stops.  There is nothing wrong with my DVD player because I also purchased Walk to the Hits All Time Favorites (at the same time) and there were no freezes or stops on that DVD or any of her earlier DVDs I purchased in 2015.  That is why I am giving this DVD and 5 Boosted Miles one star...very disappointed.
1344714
I'm sorry, but this collection is terrible.

I ordered the ultimate uncut version because I prefer Japanese, and sure, they come in nice boxes with pretty, shiny inserts, but don't judge a DVD by its cover.

Some subs are DIC (G-rated, but at least readable.), some Pioneer (Better translation, but incredibly hard to read font, and a majority of the series is this way), and Sailor Stars, the BEST season of them all is a homemade translation of subs with missing dialogue, questionable dialogue where it doesn't belong, and disc 3 even has some of the video footage missing!!!

I can't believe someone is charging so much for this. I can't believe I paid it!!!

I doth care about the rights or licensing, I just want to enjoy this series, that means so very much to me. You're better of downloading a torrent, because that's all this is; It's just in a shiny package...
4800908
Half of the episodes do not play right. they stop part way into the episode and will not play any further no matter what you try.  I have to unplug the player to reset so I can even try to watch the next episode.  With 15 discs it was not possible to know this would happen before the return date expired.  With large sets of discs in a set there should be a different return policy so a person does not get ripped off.
1289178
Finally, my collection is complete, but this particular disk is not up to the quality of the other seven in the set. Originally conceived as a series with eight "chapters" of five episodes each, production problems led to having to create four "clip shows" to deliver the promised 40 episodes. (The actors recorded dialog for two episodes that were never animated.) These clip shows contain from 60-90% "recycled" material, but the 10-40% that's original ties the clips together into enjoyable stories.

 When packaging the series, the five daily episodes for each week were combined into a single feature-length disk, with only one intro and exit that had combined production credits for all of the episodes on the disk (sometimes 2-3 different Directors, for example.) The first six disks faithfully capture the first six weeks. The last week ("Homefront Campaign") contains the last five production episodes, but there is a missing episode (#31) that precedes the first one on the disk, and the story ends with a cliff-hanger (#37) because they never completed the last few episodes. (Another review provides a very good chronology for viewing the disks.)

 What we find on "Trackers" is the missing episode and the four clip-shows, but the DVD layout is confusing ... it appears to have one "feature" and four "extras" ... these are, in fact, the missing Episode 31 and the clip-shows that were delivered instead of 33, 38, 39 and 40. All five episodes contain their original intros and exits. (Love that music! :-) Unfortunately, unlike the other seven disks, there are no audio commentaries or production featurettes.

 If, like me, you started collecting these DVDs as they were released in order to have the Complete Series, then you *MUST* have this disk. Because each episode is only about 22 minutes long, with the complete intro music and ending credits, they are a good way to introduce friends to the series without forcing them to sit through an hour and a half in one sitting to watch all five episodes from a single week.

 If, OTOH, you just have fond memories of the show and would like to have a "sampler", then this is a very good choice as your first purchase, as the four clip shows contain some really great action sequences. The down-side is that several of those scenes are repeated in more than one of the episodes, and the way they are ordered on the disk, you'll see a flashback near the end of one episode repeated near the begining of the episode that follows it.

 I don't feel cheated by the duplication ... there are interesting stories wrapped around these clips from other episodes, sometimes appearing as flashbacks (when Ricco is marrooned in space, or Razack is being court-martialed), others as material that Higgins is trying to cobble together into a broacast for FedNet. It also looks like they may have included some scenes that ended up on the cutting room floor as script changes were made during production of the original episodes.

 In the commentaries on the other disks, they talk about the production problems that led to having to deliver the clip shows, but it would have been nice to hear them telling the stories of how they went about putting them together, as I believe at least one of them was actually a "preview", containing clips from episodes that were still in production and had not yet been aired.

 So, don't be fooled that this is just a 20 minute "feature" with four "extra featurettes" ... these are 5 episodes that should have had an entirely different menu for navigating them. They did a Very Poor job of packaging this disk, but at least we've got all 40 episodes to enjoy and share. I'm thankful to have them in any condition!
1650825
Was so excited about getting these DVD's. Love Hee Haw! Got them and literally every DVD has a place that freezes and/or skips. Also there is a DVD missing. I just noticed this as I prepared them to be returned. Where ever Amazon is getting them, they need to address these issues. If DVD's all play right and are intact, I would LOVE to reorder them. I badly want the whole series. Very disappointed...  :(
4281841
Just a fair warning for folks thinking of buying Earth 2. This review isn't about the show (which I like), it's about the poor quality of the dvds.

I purchased this a few years ago and recently pulled it out to watch again. The Earth 2 discs are double sided, and when I went to play them this time I found that at least one episode skipped on every single disc (both sides). I took a close look at these discs, and every disc looks like it has spots and pitting all over the discs. I store all of my dvds in cd wallets and have done so for over ten years, and I have never had any problems with any dvds deteriorating. These dvds have only been handled a few times over the years and the rest of the time they have been in the Case Logic wallet. There are NO scratches or fingerprints on any discs. Oddly enough, it was the middle episode on both sides that skipped on all of the discs.

Every other dvd in that wallet is fine, including the 3rd season of Sliders - ALSO double-sided discs, and also rarely played. Several of the dvds in the same wallet are older than Earth 2 and those are all fine - including the dvds that haven't been played in years. I can't imagine it's the plastic of the cd wallet reacting with the discs because the pitting is on BOTH sides, AND no other double-sided disc in any of the 20+ wallets I use has this damage. I know that dvds have a shelf life and won't last forever, but I do my best to store them properly. If ANY of my other double-sided discs were breaking down like these, then I'd suspect the cd wallet as the problem - but they are all fine. Believe me, I immediately checked! I can only conclude that for some reason these discs just aren't as high quality as other dvds.

It's a shame because I really like this show. I'm also frustrated and upset because I don't know how to fix the pitting problem OR prevent further degradation of the discs. Looks like I'm going to be spending some quality time with google.

If you like the show then you pretty much have to put up with shoddy discs if you want to own the show. Just be aware that they aren't going to last as long as they should, and that you're shelling out good money for a cheap product. You're also going to have to find another way to store them other than the box they come in. The box is the old-style box where the discs are "stacked" on top of each other - complete stupidity for double-sided discs. Add to that, these discs are so cheaply made that they would be wrecked in no time just from taking them out of the case.

Shame on the manufacturers! This was a clever, well-made sci-fi show that deserves more respect than this!
767602
I love this series - indeed I've got most of the episodes on VHS tape. I taped them probably the first time they appeared on PBS, over a decade or so ago.

Since I *do* have them on tape, I knw what they're supposed to look like. Well...the problems should be obvious to everyone. The episodes are too dark, the film grainy, the color faded, and "crisp and clear" would not be the way to describe how everything looks.

If you've got these episodes on tape, don't bother to "upgrade" to DVD, because there's no upgrade involved. If you don't have them on VHS, go ahead and buy a copy - or wait until a used version comes up for half price or less...that's really all these deplorable transfers are worth.
4117780
Love the show but I think they put too many episodes on each disc. The last episode in practically every side of every disc would freeze and then just skip ahead, so we couldn't see key parts of the story. This didn't happen with the last season where they only recorded in one side of the disc. I am going to send these back. I just don't think I should have to pay $179 to have something this defective in my library.