I am a big fan of the whole Buffy-Angel universe, and have collected all of the season sets of both shows on DVD.
Actually, watching them on DVD was the first time I watched most of the episodes, as I didn't really give Buffy much of a chance when it originally started airing, and by the time that show was on for a few years and Angel had spun off, there was so much history on the show that I knew nothing about that it would have been kind of hard to just jump on board.
Then one day a few years back (this was around Oct/Nov of 2002, when Buffy was in the early part of it's final season on TV, and Angel was in it's 4th season) I picked up the first two seasons of Buffy on DVD and marathoned them over a couple/few weeks or so, and I was hooked. I think that January and February respectively, they released Buffy season 3 and Angel Season 1, and I marathoned those as they came out. I then started watching the newer episodes of both shows on TV. There were still plenty of blanks to fill in, particularly on Angel since the cast had changed pretty dramatically between Season 1 and Season 4 (and I hadn't yet seen anything inbetween). As the further sets came out, I bought them and marathoned them each time (while watching newer episodes on TV where applicable), eventually seeing the entirety of both series. I think my record for most episodes watched in a day was with Angel season 2. At the time I had a day off of work during which I had nothing to do, and over the course of that day I watched 12 episodes.
I've been wanting to watch them again for a while. I really want to watch them they way they are "meant" to be seen. Meaning after the first 3 seasons of Buffy, I would go back and forth between Buffy and Angel episodes, since when they were on the same network they would show them both together when they were new, and sometimes things that happened on one show would crossover into the other, and it would be better watched in that order.
But then things get complicated during the separate network era. While not as often, they do somethings on one show that at least kind of/sort of effect the other, but the specific interval of one episode of one show, then one of the other no longer works out exactly like it used to, so I will have to figure out some plan of viewing to account for that. But I do want to do that at some point.
As for a Blu-Ray release, I wouldn't be against it, but I also don't know if I would buy it. At least not for what it would likely cost. While the quality would most likely be a lot better, that would just get very very pricey to rebuy THAT MUCH of something I already own. For me to buy them, they would have to come out at a REALLY GOOD (meaning low) price, which isn't likely with the format currently.
Though, if they are going to do it, I think they should wait a couple of years when Blu-Ray has a larger audience and the general price of the discs go down. They would have to release them for a really low price though to convince most people to double dip.
It's one thing to rebuy a series of 3 movies or something, but to rebuy entire TV series is something else entirely.
I will say though, that of the relatively long running TV series that I've collected on DVD, I would probably consider rebuying Buffy and Angel more so than most any other series I've collected.
|
All countries
Argentina
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Bulgaria
Chile
China
Colombia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Estonia
Denmark
Finland
Greece
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
Indonesia
Ireland
Israel
India
Latvia
Lithuania
Malaysia
New Zealand
Norway
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Singapore
South Africa
South Korea
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
Hybrid Mode
