Dalvin

I will definetly be picking this up during the 20% off sale in November. I plan on picking this up for my brother as a Christmas present along with 2 wireless controllers for his PS2.

Groucho

New DVDs of feature films with budgets well over $100 million are sold for less than $20 bucks.

Kenshiro

1 or 2 disc sets in keepcases vs. 6 or 7 disc sets in elaborate packages will never be priced the same.

Anyone who expects them to be is only fooling themselves.

Groucho

No, I was just responding to the $100 million budget comment. It's irrelevant to the discussion.

But HBO's pricing is always much more expensive than comparable box sets from other studios.

MrX

Looks awesome

M Polo

Great packaging! I'm all over this and Deadwood: Season 2.

rexinnih

Look forward to finally seeing this. Don't have HBO.

Jericho

Probably because it HBO had cheap shows to buy, people wouldn't subscribe to the channel. And if people don't subscribe, the shows aren't made in the first place.

Shagrath

I don't have HBO, and buy the majority of their series on DVD. I have absolutely no problem with their pricing, because I know the production quality is going to be way up there, all the time.

Of course I'd like to get these for $30-40 like some of the other network shows, but if you look around, or wait a couple months, you can find a good price. Most stores will have a halfway decent price on release week, and after that, you may find it used, or at Costco or Sam's for a reasonable price. Other than that, there's always rentals.

murphy54

wow ..great stuffff

Josh Z

For those who will be watching the series for the first time on DVD, give it a few episodes to warm up. It starts off a little slow, but it gets A LOT better as it goes.

JasonF

I'm looking forward to this. I started to watch it on HBO and was enjoying it, but I got really busy and wound up deleting the episodes to make room on the DVR. Now I'll finally get to catch up with everyone else.

DEGRASSIFAN1980

this is def. a buy for me , the show is so cool

Kocheese99

Just got mine today. Very impressed with the packaging. The box is very solid. I think it's made out of fiberboard or some type of wood. Very Nice. I hope to get a chance to start watching it tonight. I'll post some thoughts/reviews of it later if anyone's interested.

wennma01

how/where'd you get it?

bluetoast

At amazon, they have it packaged with a bonus disc with the first eps of Big Love, Rome, Entourage and Deadwood:

bluetoast

And those movies have multiple month theatrical runs in which them make that money back worldwide. HBO shows don't.

Jay G.

That should be "HBO and BBC spent over $100 million producing these 12 episodes." HBO did contribute the bulk of it though, $85 million.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_(T...es)#Production



As for the price of the box set, consider that HBO spent an average of $4 million an episode on the series. Consider the probably the most expensive network show, LOST, has about the same per-episode cost:
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/559/559892p1.html

Now, consider that Rome got about half as many viewers as LOST did for their premeires:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_%28TV_series%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_(T...)#First_season


Now, I don't know about the relative per-person values of advertising revenue vs. subsriber revenue, but I imagine the former is larger. So, with the same size budget as a network series but with a smaller audience and thus smaller revenue, it's not surprising that the box-set costs more than network shows do on DVD.

Ravenous

You will forever be called a liar unless you give us some pics of the set and where you got it a month early. Nuff said..

I cant wait for this show. And to hell with the price, Ill get it for $45.

Kocheese99

I got it through on trade in the Exchange forum.

Here's the link to the thread.

smackattack

I had to pick my slack jaw off the floor after that 10 minutes of television. It blows away the whole movie of gladiator.

PULLO! PULLO! PULLO!

cjp12

Has anyone else received their set and started watching yet? The video presentation is great but there seems to be a glitch, at least on my set. I have watched 3 discs so far and on all of them, during each episode, the English subtitles have turned themselves on at random intervals. This seems to be a player-specific problem as it occurs when watching on my Toshiba player but did not occur when I tested the discs on my parents' LG dvd player. Anyone else had a similar experience with this set?

bunkaroo

What model is your Toshiba? I know some of the older models were more vulnerable to subtitle glitches.

Dalvin

I'll wait for the eventual HD-DVD box set...you know its coming the question is WHEN? Also, is there any chance with the way technology is going that either format would be able to put an entire season on just 1 disc and not suffer any picture quality? Will we ever get to that point?

Jay G.

HD-DVD would show the series in HD, so no. it's doubtful that even a 50GB Blu-Ray disc would be able to hold more than 4-5 hours of high-quality HD content, hell Blu-Ray currently can't even get 2 hours of high-quality content on 25GB.

It's also not likely to even happen with the two current HD disc formats. Both sides are working on multiple-layer discs that go beyond just the two implemented now. However, if they can't implement the extra layers into the spec soon, it will probably be too late in the formats' lifespan to change the spec.