Family Matters: The Complete Series

[Sillydillo]

Family Matters is getting a complete box set. Newly listed on YES B2B. Previous releases of this show's later seasons were MOD only.

What matters most? Family, of course. Especially if you are a member of the close-knit Winslow brood where the only things that really count are love, laughter and Family Matters.

[MifuneFan]

Was about to make a thread for this. Great news. Loved watching this as part of TGIF

[jzbadblood]

Awesome! One of my favorite sitcoms of all time. I was buying the seasons as they came out, but I felt like they were just tossed onto shelves and the fate of new seasons depended on the sales of each one. Very nerve-wracking cause of course I just wanted the whole show. I never do MOD stuff so I never got to finish the collection.

[drb999]

Did I do that?!?

[Torgon]

Nice! Looks like WB has been boxing these series up lately for their 100th: Growing Pains, Night Court, Pinky and the Brain, and Family Matters (probably others too). Too bad these and/or others weren’t put on Blu-ray.

[Walter Kafka]

[OceanBlue]

Originally Posted by Torgon

Nice! Looks like WB has been boxing these series up lately for their 100th: Growing Pains, Night Court, Pinky and the Brain, and Family Matters (probably others too). Too bad these and/or others weren’t put on Blu-ray.

I didn't know about Family Matters and Pinky and the Brain until earlier, but I posted about Growing Pains, Maverick, Mayberry R.F.D. and Night Court in a separate DVD Movies thread started something like a few weeks ago. A fellow member/poster posted in a different DVD Movies thread earlier this year that apparently the TV series Alice (the cast including Vic Tayback) will be getting the same treatment, a Complete Series DVD boxset (I'm assuming with pressed discs as well), but I have yet to see anything about that series.

I had hoped that we would be seeing some other drama series which the WAC released completely, or the first season or first few seasons of, during the remainder of this year. Still plenty of time for that to happen.

[Justin2000]

What's up with Yes.B2BWave site?

[Sillydillo]

Originally Posted by Justin2000

What's up with Yes.B2BWave site?

B2BWave is a Canadian business-to-business retailer who lists a catalog of discs. The information was readily accessible to the general public and listed new releases before they were formally announced, though it seems as of just today they now require you to have an account to view anything on the site.

[michaelhazin]

Is this going to be a bluray set?

[Sillydillo]

Originally Posted by michaelhazin

Is this going to be a bluray set?

Nope. DVD

[Dynamo of Eternia]

Well, I already have all of the seasons of Family Matters. And for the seasons released through Warner Archive, I'm pretty sure I managed to get early copies with pressed discs. I'll have to double check to be sure. But if so, then I have no reason to double-dip. But this is cool for anyone who doesn't have them yet, or has burned discs and wants pressed discs.

I may eventually grab Night Court on a good sale since I have all burned discs for the seasons released through Warner Archive.

[hasslein]

I have to check mine too. I think they are pressed as well.

[Sillydillo]

Originally Posted by Dynamo of Eternia

Well, I already have all of the seasons of Family Matters. And for the seasons released through Warner Archive, I'm pretty sure I managed to get early copies with pressed discs. I'll have to double check to be sure. But if so, then I have no reason to double-dip. But this is cool for anyone who doesn't have them yet, or has burned discs and wants pressed discs.

I may eventually grab Night Court on a good sale since I have all burned discs for the seasons released through Warner Archive.

Originally Posted by hasslein

I have to check mine too. I think they are pressed as well.

If you own every seasons and they're all pressed, I'd be wary of them being bootlegs tbh. Doubly so if you got them all in a bundle of some sort. Fairly sure bootleg sets of this show are incredibly common.

[hasslein]

I always check on computer. Mine are real , whether pressed or not I don’t remember


Edit: just checked. Not pressed.

[Dynamo of Eternia]

Originally Posted by Sillydillo

If you own every seasons and they're all pressed, I'd be wary of them being bootlegs tbh. Doubly so if you got them all in a bundle of some sort. Fairly sure bootleg sets of this show are incredibly common.

I've gotten mine through sites like Best Buy and Bullmoose. Not from 3rd party sellers. And I bought them individually.

Usually when Warner Archive has a new release on DVD, they do an initial run of pressed discs. After that run, they are DVD-Rs.

It also somewhat depends on where you order it from. If you order from Amazon, even when it first comes out, there's a decent chance of getting burned discs. The reason, if I am not mistaken, is that WB has some kind of arrangement with Amazon where Amazon actually physically replicates the content as needed.

As the seasons of Perfect Strangers were coming out, I got most from Best Buy, but made the mistake of ordering one of them from Amazon, and ended up with burned discs. So I ended up double dipping immediately, ordering the same set from Best Buy, and getting pressed discs.




Bootlegs are a problem in general these days, no doubt about that. But it's mainly a problem when buying from 3rd party sellers (i.e. ebay, Amazon marketplace, etc.). Not directly from normal retailers.

[Sillydillo]

Originally Posted by Dynamo of Eternia

I've gotten mine through sites like Best Buy and Bullmoose. Not from 3rd party sellers. And I bought them individually.

Usually when Warner Archive has a new release on DVD, they do an initial run of pressed discs. After that run, they are DVD-Rs.

It also somewhat depends on where you order it from. If you order from Amazon, even when it first comes out, there's a decent chance of getting burned discs. The reason, if I am not mistaken, is that WB has some kind of arrangement with Amazon where Amazon actually physically replicates the content as needed.

As the seasons of Perfect Strangers were coming out, I got most from Best Buy, but made the mistake of ordering one of them from Amazon, and ended up with burned discs. So I ended up double dipping immediately, ordering the same set from Best Buy, and getting pressed discs.

Bootlegs are a problem in general these days, no doubt about that. But it's mainly a problem when buying from 3rd party sellers (i.e. ebay, Amazon marketplace, etc.). Not directly from normal retailers.

Was not aware there was any consistent way to get a pressed run of a MOD release like that, that's pretty neat actually. From my experience it's always been somewhat of a shot-in-the-dark, out of the ~20 MOD DVD releases I own, I think like 2 of them have pressed discs.

I try to be especially careful when it comes to bootlegs, a lot of collectors I've met just absolutely have no idea what to look for and then insist their complete series set that's a bunch of standard DVD cases saran wrapped together for $30 is totally real.

[Sillydillo]

Early listings are starting to go up at retailers, such as Walmart.

[Sillydillo]

Cover art is up:

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[meremortal]

Surprised this show wasn't a bigger ratings hit during the height of TGIF. Only the second season cracked the top 20 in ratings, anyway.