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lyd · Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Posts: 390 Location: Lake Mills, Wi

Am I the only one who wishes they would stop with the excessive "box set" packaging? Most of them are just that, boxes, inside a box, with the normal DVD packaging inside that.

Just give me the DVD's, shrink-wrapped together or secured with a big rubber band or whatever.. I don't want the silly boxes. Whatever I might be saving buying a box set, I could save even more if I wasn't paying for all that extra packaging and printing.

I throw the boxes away. I don't like how they look in the rack. They spoil the whole aesthetic, imo.

lyd

**Joust** · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:45 pm Post subject:

sell them boxes.
or donate them to a friend.
do you have the one for the MASH box set? (all 11 seasons.)

lyd · Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Posts: 390 Location: Lake Mills, Wi

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 12:24 am Post subject:

Wow you are the absolute opposite of me. I want the box set, give me a bigger shinyer box and I will pay extra for it. I even keep the stickers they put on the celothane wrap.

Zebu Fellenz · Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 2567

I don't really like the boxes and I rarely buy box sets anyway as the Tv series don't interest me and there is rarely a box set without at least one bad movie (if they were good movies I bought them as they came out)

Erik

**kal** · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:04 am Post subject:

This is another reason I like Blu-ray: The cases are thinner so you can fit more on a shelf, and the tend to stick more discs into one case then with what they used to do with DVD.

Even after selling off 200-300 DVDs, my shelves are starting to run out of space (and this picture was about 3 years ago):

Kal

garyfritz · Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 12026 Location: Fort Collins, CO

My biggest beef with most box sets is not the boxes themselves, but the utterly vapid waste of bits inside. Who cares about the in-depth personal details about the foley man's girlfriend's landlord?? Sheesh.