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Rating:  - Great Show, Horrible New Packaging
I'll skip the glowing praise for the show in this short review, and instead address something I feel has been largely ignored: the packaging.
Seasons 1 and 2 came in a nice fold-out boxed set and ran at 6 DVDs. They played great on all my DVD players and were as beautiful as the content on them. Unfortunately, someone decided to save money by using 2-sided DVDs and reduce the count to 4 (and smaller packaging as well) with Seasons 3 and 4. For those of you not familiar with dual-sided discs I say this . . . Ordinarily, if they are used it's to have a 1-side is fullscreen (pan and scan) 1-side is widescreen movie disc. This is in itself no great hardship, since the main issues with such discs (there's nowhere to safely touch but the inner ring and outer edge, which is damn difficult putting it in or taking it our of a case) is mitigated by the owner's preference of 4:3 or 16:9; That is, you'll always play one or the other so the inevitable fingerprints are not that big a deal, since you'll touch the 'top' you never play.
Unfortunately, the episodes in NYPD Blue are on both sides of all the discs, so the inevitable fingerprints (and I imagine scratches, sooner or later) prevent you playing episodes. Not to mention that out of the box I had issues playing them on one of my DVD players. I don't know if it's bending the spec on compression, oversized discs, or some exotic new copy-protection mod, but I will say this: I resent buying discs that appear designed to fail and cost me to replace later on. I, for one, would gladly pay extra for the single-sided DVDs and larger packaging they used previously. I'm Extremely unhappy with the new packaging\discs and would advise anyone looking to get the series to think twice if they have problems with newer or dual-sided DVDs.
Short form? Horrible changes I suspect were just to boost a profit margin at the fans' expense. Not only am I unlikely to pick up Season 5 or later if they stick with the format, I'm seriously considering unloading what I already bought.
Rating:  - nypd blue - 3rd season
excellent packaging and dvd quality. excellent series. look for more seasons soon.
Rating: - Great Series, BUT!!!
I want to thank you for the trouble you went to, but it seems that the dvd's from the 3rd season are troubled! I got 2 different shipments of the third season, and none of them would play in my dvd player; not just one player, but 2. I love this series, and wish I could get more than just 5 seasons...do you know why they don't offer more of them??
However, seems the 3rd season is lost to me from you, so I will have to go elsewhere to get one that works. I am very sorry for this. I love Amazon and their eithics, but this just isn't working.
Thank you and IF you have an answer about the later seasons of NYPD Blue, I would love to know it. I can't find any after 4 anywhere.
Thank you,
Denise Taylor
Rating: - Blue Review
As an avid fan of the NYPD Blue show, I was very pleased with the complete third season. I would definately recommend it to all NYPD Blue fans as well as anyone interested in this series.
Rating: - Bravo Dennis Franz and Gordon Clapp . . .
This third season has fully lived up to my expectations - thank you cast and production crew particularly Dennis Franz, Jimmy Schmidt and Gordon Clapp or Medavoy for whom my wife and I have a softspot. I am not too keen on the doublesided DVD's but I guess I'll get used to them - as a 75 y.o. I find it difficult to read the tiny titles around the centre ring of the discs . . .
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