The Monkees Complete TV Show: Did You Upgrade To The Blu-Ray Set Or Did You Stick With The DVD Set?

Sold it off. Been transferring and dumping the thousands and thousands of tapes because DVDs take up far less space.

 

Did the same with vinyl once by transferring albums onto cassettes, sadly I never listened to the cassettes.

 

DVD quality...not the show. : )

 

DVD grainy /poor?

 

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The DVD Sets Are Just Fine With Me

 

just DVD. : )

 

One of the huge annoyances for me when trying to watch the original DVD set was there was no option to "play all" the episodes. The menu screen was authored with the audio playing incredibly loud. Each episode had the audio authored normal to quiet so the volume had to be cranked up to hear it. If you either forgot, or didn't get to it quick enough, when the menu would come back on after each episode it would be blowing out the speakers because that volume was so much louder than the episode volume is. Just a constant down-up-down-up-down-up-down-up for each episode I wanted to watch. Plus having to navigate to each next episode to select it was annoying. One of the absolute worst user-experience DVD authoring jobs that I own.

Plus I still hate that packaging. What a bloated waste of money expense that had to be to get produced, and was also far from user-friendly too. I even had to provide my own sleeves to store the discs in.

 

That's not the only one-- the M*A*S*H releases (at least till the fourth season's worth, IIRC) also had it to where you had to manually navigate.

 

The only bad thing about the DVDs are the surround sound is fake and the episodes are VHS transfers from the restore 1995 rhino ones.


The blu-rays are remastered mono and HD transfers.

 

The DVD sets are fine with me. I don't have a Blu-Ray Player anyway.

 

The DVD Sets Are Just Fine With Me...because the Blu-ray is out of print and I ain't paying the outrageous used prices I see lol.

 

I'll stay with the DVD's. A little of the series goes a long way. I do watch an episode once in a while, but I don't need an upgrade on this one.

 

I went straight to the blu-rays, straight from monkees.com, a fairly short while ago (a few months). Still available at $200. Just so you know.

 

Thanks!

 

The bluray set is not out of print.

In fact, they still have so many of them left, they are now being sold at Amazon via WarnerMarket.

http://a.co/d/jdoJZuK

(So much for Rhino's old claim the set was "only available at Monkees.com".)

 

Thanks!

 

You know what Rhino needs to put out?

A single Blu-Ray of all the music videos from the TV show, all remixed from the multis, and with an option for a True 5.1 mix. I think every Monkees fan would buy that.

 

Just a heads up, the box set is on sale for $150 for the holidays.

The Monkees - Complete TV Series Blu-ray

 

Thats a lot of $$$ for a show that only ran two seasons. Think about it.....

 

Agreed, I was just putting it out there. That works out to $15 per disc which wouldn’t be so bad as 10 individual blu-ray movies. On the other hand, the complete Fraggle Rock on blu-ray is 12 discs and available for $41. So, there’s that. I dunno.

 

Their series may have only ran for two seasons, but that TV series spawned 52 years of entertaining folks.

 

I paid like $300 for the VHS boxset back in the 90s so the blu-ray set was a bargin..

 

My 2 DVD sets are just fine. I've never even watched them all the way through.

 

I didn't even do that. I transferred my VHS box to DVD when DVDR first came out.

 

Still not convinced I need it. Are the discs region-free? It would be painful, even at the reduced price, if they won't play in the UK!