User blog:Scottlukaswilliams/R1 DVD Reissues

Seasons One of both Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess have been re-released on DVD for Region 1 by Universal.

I love the new box art! and I really like that these releases use slim DVD cases instead of the huge fold-out digipaks of the previous releases.



I'm not sure about the content though:


 * 1) The HTLJ set does NOT include the 5 TV films like the original season one release does. Hopefully they'll be re-released separately still.
 * 2) Neither of these sets have any bonus features. I understand the rights to the original bonus features are owned by Anchor Bay and/or Davis-Panzer but I bet it wouldn't have cost that much to include them or to create some new ones.  I really hope future sets will have some bonus materials.
 * 3) The audio is only 2.0. This may not actually be that bad since that was how the audio was originally.  The Anchor Bay DVDs upconverted the audio to 5.1. somehow.

The one great thing about these re-issues is that they include subtitles for the hearing impaired where the originals did not.

At this point, I haven't decided whether or not it's worth buying these. Sure they'll take up much less space and I like the cover art but I think I'd miss having all the bonus features.

Thoughts from anyone else?