Ripped from blu-ray.com. Unexpected release, I wonder if it'll be worth it.

Posted July 6, 2012

The 5-season set of the popular 1960's TV series, winner of 15 Emmy Awards and staring Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore will have all 157 episodes, spread through out 15 Blu-ray discs and it has been mastered in High Definition. The series had been released previously on a 25-DVD set full with features 7 years ago. No details of what features or how many will be included on the BD set are available at the moment.

That is awesome news! I never picked up the DVD set so I'll be all over this. Hopefully I Love Lucy is next. Thank God these shows were shot on film.

Depending on the reviews, I might pick this up if it were around $100.

Unbelievable. After putting off a purchase of the DVDs for years, I finally bought the complete series box set last night from a seller on Ebay. Less than 14 hours later, I see the news of the Blu-ray set. With any luck, I won't lose too much when I sell the DVDs, but I'm sure the BD set won't be cheap. The Image site shows a suggested retail of $349.

I like the show but I don't think that i'll be getting this.

I will push women aside and step on babies to get this.

Surprised they would put this show on Blu. Most of the people interested in this show are in a higher age bracket and thus less likely to have Blu-ray. Just a thought, I could be wrong. But if they hesitate to put more current shows on Blu-ray due to poor sales, I don't see this one breaking any records

I'm certainly surprised at this news. Mind you, I'm thrilled that it's getting released; any catalog TV shows that would benefit from HD getting released on Blu-Ray (i.e. not shot on videotape) is nothing but a good thing, as far as I'm concerned. I just don't see this doing massive sales numbers...

Even with the $245 price tag?

This will be a day one purchase for me. This is possibly the most exciting blu-ray announcement I've heard all year. This should look gorgeous in high-definition.

Really surprised at this. We sell TV shows at a local flea market and Dick Van Dyke is very hard to move, unlike, say, Andy Griffith, Waltons, Little House, Lucy, etc. Considering that Image had a blow-out on the season sets a few years back (along with Combat! and several others) and they could be readily had for around $10 per season (and the series set goes on sell periodically), I'm not sure how many customers are really wanting to upgrade unless the price was drastically reduced.

The Dick Van Dyke Show - EXCLUSIVE First Look at the Blu-ray Box Art for 'The Complete Series'

Would love to have this but I have the others and can't see paying the $$. I wonder how long the blu-ray extras total in time. An hour or two?

The young affluet buyer is not the market for this show. People my age and older are. Although I remember watching the show, and consider it decent, I wouldn't want to own it even on DVD. As an example; I offered my father-in-law my extra copy of Saving Private Ryan on DVD. I upgraded to Blu. He said no, he was all set. He had it on VHS. WTF! The guy doesn't see the advantage of DVD let alone the BR. BR is a communist plot to take over the world and grab his money. I can give examples from my parents as well.

Hey I'd like to see a lot of stuff on BR but this one I think was a mistake.

yeah, if these were released individually I'll probably pick up a season or two here & there. But no way am I paying three bills all at once for this thing. I just don't get the logic of why there are so many sets (i.e. Friends, Hitchcock) that are being released ONLY in pricey all-or-nothing packages.

I'm sure the studios will see lack of sales as lack of interest. But if I have to make a choice between a car payment or a Blu Ray set, the car payment wins.

I'm hoping this will be $100 from Amazon during Black Friday week next year.

I'd pick it up if it was in that price range.

High price point or not... AMAZING release.

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/57183...te-series-the/

A few weeks ago I told my dad that there were some new John Wayne movies on blu-ray that he didn't have on dvd and he said-What's Blu-ray? Plus his dvd player is broke. He has to hold the tray open to insert dvds. Maybe he thinks spending 80 bucks on a blu-ray player is too much.

....Holy fuck do those images look amazing. Jesus.

$150.49 right now on Amazon. Very tempting, but I've spent way too much lately, and was deeply burned by the Black Friday price for Bond, so I'll still wait until this hits $100.

That is a much better price. If I didn't own all of them I would consider it. I wonder how much time the new extras total up to be.

Has anyone seen a review that addresses that?

Saw it for $153 at Costco today

Yep. It's been there for a few weeks now but I don't think any are selling.

Since the core demographic for Dick VanDyke and the core demographic for Blu-ray are different I can't say that surprises me.