ER on Blu-ray?

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Originally Posted by BluRyan

I'd suggest you buy Season 1 on DVD, you can find it for about £6 now, online. Trust me, you will get hooked, it's my all time favorite show. I have fond memories of it, and it is the only show I have ever seen in my life that hits the tone, and feel and mood bang on. Try out the first season and you wont be able to hold yourself from watching the rest. Trust me!

Hear hear! Once you watch season 1, you'll never look back. It is worth it, really.

[tanujdua]

Originally Posted by BluRyan

I'd suggest you buy Season 1 on DVD, you can find it for about £6 now, online. Trust me, you will get hooked, it's my all time favorite show. I have fond memories of it, and it is the only show I have ever seen in my life that hits the tone, and feel and mood bang on. Try out the first season and you wont be able to hold yourself from watching the rest. Trust me!

Originally Posted by EclipseSSD

Hear hear! Once you watch season 1, you'll never look back. It is worth it, really.

That's a good idea
I think I will haha!

How long is each episode?

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Originally Posted by tanujdua

That's a good idea
I think I will haha!

How long is each episode?

About 45 mins. But you'd never think that once you start getting into it, the time just goes by so quickly.

[tanujdua]

Originally Posted by EclipseSSD

About 45 mins. But you'd never think that once you start getting into it, the time just goes by so quickly.

Damn that's going to be a lot of TV over 15 seasons . Anyway, I just bought Season 1 from play.com for £5.69 (with student discount ).

Will report back in a few days/weeks .

[BluRyan]

Originally Posted by EclipseSSD

About 45 mins. But you'd never think that once you start getting into it, the time just goes by so quickly.

Amen to that! One of the only shows I can watch without looking at the timer to see how long is left! It's just so special. And scenes like the end of the season 1 finale give you such a warm feeling. Remember once you start watching you'll definitely want to buy the complete collection and it'll go so fast!

[BluRyan]

Originally Posted by tanujdua

Damn that's going to be a lot of TV over 15 seasons . Anyway, I just bought Season 1 from play.com for £5.69 (with student discount ).

Will report back in a few days/weeks .

That's brilliant! You will love it for sure! First night I watched like the first four episodes! First episode is about 80 mins and then every episode varies from about 42-47 minutes. All in all it's about 240 hours of television!!! And yeah, let us know what you think!

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Originally Posted by KrugerIndustrial

The first 8 or 10 seasons were definitely the best with most of the original cast still on. I have very fond feelings towards those episodes with Anthony Edwards. Such a brilliant actor and his character was very likeable.

That episode when he

[Show spoiler]died was so sad.

True that. That event was very moving indeed, although I didn't like they handled some of the other events of that sort...

[BluRyan]

Aw, I loved Anthony Edwards. Truly, truly sad when

[Show spoiler] he died.

And yeah, I wasn't too happy when some of the other characters were dispatched such as

[Show spoiler] Romano vs the Helicopter

[BluRyan]

Originally Posted by KrugerIndustrial

Anyone know where to get the complete seasons 1-15 box set for around £50? I remember it was that low years ago..cheapest I've seen now was £69.85 at Zavvi. Oh why did I have to use that 10% discount code on my last much smaller order...

£5 OFF code!! 'MVCFIVE50'

And yeah, I remember when it was like £50 last Christmas.

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Originally Posted by KrugerIndustrial

Though this edition would be superb!

[Show spoiler]

That would've been awesome!

[BluRyan]

Originally Posted by KrugerIndustrial

They actually still sell those with seasons 1-15 inside. It's the same case. Just linked a wrong picture.

But it is priced around $130 + who knows how much for shipping.

Oh...Zavvi ships the box only within UK. Surprise surprise. That leaves me only Amazon marketplace(£80) and HMV(£80). Amazon stopped selling it after people were complaining about some DVDs not working(?).

edit. Here's one http://www.boxsetcollection.com/er-c...ion-p-260.html

Does that look legit? The box set Amazon was selling had like 48 discs and this Chinese import has 92?

Hmmm... tbh, doesn't really look too legit and episodes may be recorded of TV or something dodgy? And that's weird because I've played all the discs in the Amazon UK boxset and not one of them had a problem. Believe me there was nothing wrong with any of them (although I did buy it in-store HMV)

By the way, the Amazon boxset has 48 discs at 3/4 per season which are double sided with about 3 or 4 episodes on each side of the disc

Anyway, I'd definitely recommend you buy the UK box from HMV or Amazon, but maybe wait a few weeks just in case it comes down in price. There's nice packaging inside and everything and it's great quality for the price!

[BluRyan]

Originally Posted by KrugerIndustrial

I hands down dislike double sided discs.

Contacted Amazon about this issue and they responded that it is unlikely they will ever have it in stock again.

I hate them too! No artwork!! But it probably would be twice as expensive if they used 90-odd single sided discs

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I got my set for my birthday. It cost £70 in HMV when I last saw it last year.

[BluRyan]

Originally Posted by KrugerIndustrial

Paying £10 more a year later sounds rather silly then.

Yeah, I picked it up last May for £70 in store HMV. By Christmas it went up to £80! Best set I ever bought ever. Value for money!

[BluRyan]

Originally Posted by KrugerIndustrial

But then again for £80 I could buy 2 seasons of Twilight Zone on Blu-ray....

I emailed Warner tonight about the Chinese import and also if they're going to release a new set anytime soon either on DVD or Blu-ray. Let's see what they reply.

Ooh, fingers crossed they say they're considering a Blu-ray release for the future!!!!

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Yep. It will be pricey, like we said, but it'll be worth it.

[BluRyan]

Alas, the usual, bland and heartless reply from WB. But one day they will come to their senses and release ER. I might send an e-mail to them about Friends, see if they say anything...

[BluRyan]

Originally Posted by KrugerIndustrial

Agree though they were extremely nice to send me a free replacement cover art for a few films.

An unnecessary, un-selfish act of unwarranted kindness!! Wow. This goes against everything I've ever come to understand about Warner Bros. Mindf***!!!!

[BluRyan]

Originally Posted by KrugerIndustrial

Hehe. Can't afford the box set and can't wait to watch ER either. Solution? I think I'll just buy the season 1 for £7.

edit. Found it relatively cheap for only 7 euros incl. shipping.

Yeah, pick them up one at a time. That way you get to savor the excitement of opening ER on DVD 15 times!!

I had only watched a few episodes when I paid the £70 for the complete set though, bit of a blind buy for me! Worth. Every. Penny!!! I do that a lot though, ridiculously expensive blind buys, did it with Frasier and Friends too (and now awaiting Blu releases for both of them!! )

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I think I watched about 10 seasons, 10-15. The first few seasons I missed. I was 1 when the show started in 1994, but as soon as I started, I loved it. Couldn't stop watching it after that.