Very disappointing. On the plus side: the items ordered turned up fairly quickly, and were the titles ordered, which is the best I can say about them. On the negative side: An outfit that does not appear to care about its customers nor its reputation, sending out films that have poor source material, and with barely legible hand writing all across the discs. Looks to me like a 'bedroom business' run by one person. Far superior copies of the titles I ordered are currently available to watch on YouTube, so the company's website claim, and I quote - "This is the place to come for The highest quality DVDs of old classic movies. You will find that you never need to go anywhere else." is hollow. I have contacted the company to complain and to request a refund, but based on experience so far don't think that is likely to happen. My advice is: save your money by avoiding this company.
BR
Brian
The Good with the Bad
The Good with the Bad
Start with the good - I finally have copies of a show I had searched months for online, can't find an official boxset anywhere. They start with 10/10 for that.
The bad:
The item's page on their site says this:
"The Quality Rating is 9 out of 10
100% in chronological order
Commercial free and unedited
This box set contains all 11 DVDs with Custom Artwork."
Let's go.
"The quality rating is 9 out of 10" - it is in me Sandra Bullocks. I'm 7 episodes in and the best I've seen is a 3 or 4/10. All episodes are low resolution TV rips. Nothing wrong with TV rips, the standard 350MB per SD episode was perfectly fine, and I suspect that's what these are, but whatever converting they've done to burn to disc has compressed the hell out of them. Not good.
"100% in chronological order" - true so far....and thanks I guess?
"Commercial free and unedited" - suspect this is untrue, compressing is a form of editing. You haven't cut away any scenes, but quality was cut, and I don't know why....these are 4.7GB discs, with 4/5 eps on each....no compression necessary.
"This box set contains all 11 DVDs with Custom Artwork" - well, if you consider an all white dvd surface with numbers scribbled on with a Sharpie "Custom Artwork" you're in for a treat :) Maybe there was some artistic statement about the excesses of mankind when 11 discs were shoved into 3 double-sided sleeves?
A bit peeved to be honest, paid 35 bucks plus shipping for this, the seller spent (at most) 5 bucks for blank dvds, 3 sleeves and a shipping envelope, and found the video files freely on the high seas. 30 bucks profit for burning a few ISOs, handy money if the orders are coming in.
But back to my original point - I now have a copy of one of my fav obscure tv shows, credit where credit's due, I'm still enjoying watching it :) Perhaps offer a download option in future though, would cost you even less to provide and customers might get higher quality vids ;)
