Person of Interest: The Complete First Season - September 4, 2012

[KilloWertz]

Warner Home Entertainment will bring Person of Interest: The Complete First Season to Blu-ray in the fall. Created by filmmakers J.J. Abrams (Super 8) and Jonathan Nolan (The Dark Knight), this weekly procedural stars Jim Caviezel (The Thin Red Line) and Michael Emerson (Lost) as two outcasts working on society's fringes to stop violent crimes.

Warner's ten-disc Blu-ray/DVD/UltraViolet Digital Copy combo pack presents the program in its 1.78:1 broadcast ratio. The discs also have the following bonus supplements:

Commentary on original broadcast version of the pilot
Unaired, extended pilot episode with optional producer commentary
Living in an Age of Surveillance behind-the-scenes featurette
Gag reel

Person of Interest: The Complete First Season streets on September 4th.

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[Dalsk]

A Blu-Ray/DVD combo for a TV show? No buy for me!
I'm okay for a movie, not for a TV show.

[hardtosayx]

Why? You don't have to pay extra and you don't have to use them.

[KilloWertz]

Originally Posted by hardtosayx

Why? You don't have to pay extra and you don't have to use them.

While I'm not exactly thrilled about Warner doing this for their shows (including HBO) either, it's not going to stop me from continuing to buy their shows also. It's more of an annoyance than anything else.

[hardtosayx]

I might not use the DVDs but I'll use the digital copy. It definitely wouldn't stop me from buying a show because of something like that

[KilloWertz]

Originally Posted by hardtosayx

I might not use the DVDs but I'll use the digital copy. It definitely wouldn't stop me from buying a show because of something like that

I won't use either. I have yet to actually watch a single digital copy. That obviously doesn't matter though.

[critterdvd]

Originally Posted by hardtosayx

I might not use the DVDs but I'll use the digital copy. It definitely wouldn't stop me from buying a show because of something like that

This.

The Digital Copies will definitely come in handy while traveling. As with the DVDs, I'll just give them to my parents like I always do...

[Dalsk]

Originally Posted by hardtosayx

Why? You don't have to pay extra and you don't have to use them.

The price is the same as an all Blu-Ray set?
I think $62 is a bit steep.
But if this is a normal price, so I apologize for my reaction

[hardtosayx]

Originally Posted by Dalsk

The price is the same as an all Blu-Ray set?
I think $62 is a bit steep.
But if this is a normal price, so I apologize for my reaction

Most blu-rays, especially shows, start out high and lower closer to release day. It will not be $60+ and most likely not even $50. As I've said multiple times already, if True Blood, an HBO show, is $35 release day as a "combo pack", there's no way a WB release will be that high. So far Nikita is the only one that was above $50.

Even without the DVD or digital copy people think TV shows on BD (or even DVD) are too expensive (I completely disagree), it wouldn't make sense to add more that not too many people are interested in and start charging more. If anything it would make it worse.

[critterdvd]

Warner Brothers TV-on-Blu release week prices are always between $39.xx - $44.xx. I see this being no different.

[Extremis]

Great price. Might pick it up soon.

[FilmEntertainment]

Really wanted to see "Person of Interest" since it premiered on CBS. It's a blind buy for me but for 21.99 and J.J Abrahms is involved in this show. I know it's going to be great.

Cheapest place to buy it at Best Buy since Amazon is out of stock.

Now time to buy a great action/thriller show, NIKITA blu-ray for 21.99 too at wbshop.com.

[PNeski]

This set is excellent ....But why we need dvds too?? why no resume play ?

[KilloWertz]

Originally Posted by PNeski

This set is excellent ....But why we need dvds too?? why no resume play ?

Don't know, but Warner thinks it's a good idea to do combo packs for TV shows now. I'm still happy just to be getting the shows on Blu-ray, but doing this has created jumbo cases that are ridiculously delicate. My third copy of this is arriving tomorrow from Amazon because the first two were unusable.

No resume play? Doesn't this bookmark your spot automatically when you play all like their other shows?

[Cplhicks]

Does the case actually snap closed for anyone? Mine doesn't, so the only way to keep it closed is in the slipcover box.

[MoulinBlu]

Originally Posted by KilloWertz

Don't know, but Warner thinks it's a good idea to do combo packs for TV shows now. I'm still happy just to be getting the shows on Blu-ray, but doing this has created jumbo cases that are ridiculously delicate. My third copy of this is arriving tomorrow from Amazon because the first two were unusable.

No resume play? Doesn't this bookmark your spot automatically when you play all like their other shows?

I had to get amazon to replace my copy too - pictures of the damaged set I received are in the retail forum under the "pictures of damaged amazon orders" (not verbatim) thread. I think the problem is the case is too fragile for the number of discs it holds. Even single disc Viva Elites are a little too fragile, much less 10 disc. I think the discs flopping around inside is too much weight for the hinge, as my bottom hing completely broke off taking a large chunk of the spine with it. It was busted in a couple other places too, but, very oddly, the outer slipcover looked pristine. I suspect the design is probably strong enough if it's just going to be sitting on a shelf, rarely used; but for shipping, I can only imagine how many returns amazon might be getting from this type of mega case. It must have something to do with the transparency, because dvd cases aren't nearly as fragile as BD.

I kept my first copy until the second arrived, so I could pick the best discs too. All of the BDs looked fine, but out of the 12 dvds, there wasn't a single disc that wasn't scratched up - not small, inconsequential blemishes mind you, I've seen ex-rentals that looked better than a few of them. And most of the scratches were round, in the direction of how the disc spins, which are the worst type of scratches for playback problems. DVD production standards have REALLY gone to pot, judging by the dvds in combo packs I get.

It was also odd, that both sets, and different quality screen printing on the BDs. The screenprintings on the dvds all looked identical, but the screen printing on the first BD set I received had a shiny, pearlescent finish; the second set was very flat tones of gray, more like a cheap sticker was put on the discs. I'm keeping the discs from the first set. Hopefully the difference in art is just because it came from a different replication facility, rather than there being some sort of running change, in which case I wouldn't know which is better.

Edit: Actually, I just noticed that the second case has a light fracture in it too. But it's not very noticable and doesn't affect case function, so I won't bother exchanging it again, even though I could probably exchange it on the condition of the dvds alone, if I cared anything about useless low def discs of the show that I'll never watch.