this is how a legend rightfully begins..., June 9, 2011
CarlThe 1st Season of Xena was addictive, mindblowing and, like all beginnings, had some kinks to be worked out. The casting of Lucy Lawless and Renee O'Connor was phenomenal from day one; Lawless (as most of you probably know) plays a profound, regretful, blue eyed, powerful former warlord who, thanks to help from Hercules, sets out to thoughtfully atone for her past reign of terror.
The difinitive update on the picture quality issue, June 9, 2011
LukeAfter over a week of cycling through Anchor Bay representatives, most of which were unresponsive, (no response to emails or voice mail), I was shuffled over to a company called Crest National, the actual manufacturers of the DVDs. Here I spoke with a technical rep who understood the problem, and his explanation made perfect sense. The reason why the Xena Season 1 box set has poor picture quality often referred to as "grainy" is do to that season being shot using 16mm film. The representative then went on to state that the following seasons (2,3,4,etc.) were all shot using 35mm, a much higher quality film. He promised me that the next box sets would reflect this with much more appealing picture quality.
This will become a Classic, June 17, 2011
ManuelMy kids grew up watching Xena with my sisters daughter, my sister, and myself. It is so wonderful to have such a fun and family friendly based series available to purchase. I kept waiting for the price to drop and finally caved when it broke $190. I bought this as a gift for my sister who has been an immense help to me in my life. Not only did she love this gift; she has had my other sister & numerous friends see the collection at her house and want to borrow them. It never ceases to surprise me how many people know about the Xena series - it was/is wonderful and hopefully the DVDs will work forever!
Great Set!, June 17, 2011
ByronI've been a Xena Fan since season 1 and I am so glad I waited for the DVDs to come out. I was fortunate that I bought my set directly from Anchor Bay as part of their promotion after season 6 was released. The extras are not that different from what my GF has when she bought each set individually so if that's the only thing that's weighing your decision, it may not be worth it. The series was excellent and I'm glad that I can watch it whenever I want. Now it's on to buy the 10th Anniversay Set. Battle On!!
Pretty good but needed a great setup to work right, June 29, 2011
GregoryI picked up this collection, since Im a big Xena fan, and immediately noticed the problems that people were complaining about for the graininess, and I also had some blurring problems on character's skins while watching the DVD on my 10 year old GE 25" TV and using my PS2 as a DVD player. I knew this might change when I got my new TV setup of a Sony 32"HV600 HDTV and a Panasonic DVD Player/Recorder EM50 with component cable hook-up. Sure enough the blurriness problem went away, and though you could still see some graininess in some of the scenes, it wasnt that bad, and maybe attributed to what film the original season first used til midway through the second season. So, many of the problems might just be what you are using to watch the series. It is unfortunate that they couldnt have cleaned up this collection better but I still found the DVD's worth owning.
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