Stargate SG-1 - Series 1-10 - Complete [2007] [DVD]

There's a great deal to like about this set. The huge, chunky box full of discs. The feeling when you start opening one of the binders of discs, and it just keeps unfolding and unfolding and unfolding, and then you remember that there's *another* one still in the box. The huge amount of special features, commentaries and extras. And, of course, the fact that it contains over eight *thousand* minutes of arguably one of the best sci-fi shows of all time.But then things start to go wrong. It's little things mostly, like the absence of subtitles on the early seasons, and the fact that the packaging is, after the initial awe passes, distinctly underwhelming. The discs are basically just all the series boxed sets in new packaging, so it's all there, just not as solidly packaged as it could have been. A more cohesive design on the discs and menus would have been nice too, but it doesn't really affect my enjoyment of the discs.The one major annoyance is the fact that the disc numbering is off. Instead of just marking them "Season one, disc one", they've chosen a curious mixture of "volume 54" and "season three, volume five" and all sorts of other variations. Unless you're watching the discs in sequence it makes it very difficult and tedious to find the right episode - particularly as the later discs have those interminable "You Wouldn't Steal A Car" anti-piracy videos play, unskippable, before getting to the episode listing.Oh, and just to make things more annoying, the brochure that accompanies the set doesn't match the disc numbers. You look up an episode, count out the disc number (because the brochure uses "season/disc" format), find the disc - and find that the corresponding disc is actually three discs on. And the special features are rarely on the disc the brochure says they're on.All in all, it's a set that's easy to find fault with, but I suspect most people will quickly make a note of which discs contain their favourite features anyway. The faults are many and annoying, but minor - it's still every episode of a great show, with overall very nice transfers to DVD. So if you can stand the annoyance - of course you can, though let me know if MGM decide to retool the set - it's a box well worth getting.

I'm not quite sure what all the complaints are about. I received this box set for Christmas and had been quite concerned after reading comments on here about scratched discs and missing episodes. I shouldn't have been. The discs are all in excellent condition, bar one which I can live with - it plays perfectly. I also made a point of loading up each and every disc and checked the episodes off against an episode guide, and they are all present and correct.It is undoubtedly the enclosed booklet that has caused the confusion as it omits a few episodes from its listing, which isn't very helpful at all. As has been mentioned, these are the original discs repackaged. As a result you'll have to put up with the idiosyncracies of the original releases: odd disc numbering (mainly because volume 1 was a "best of season 1" set, volume 2 was the beginning of season 2 etc - the complete season 1 release didn't happen until later, by which time the horse had bolted). At the end of season 2 we also get two season 1 episodes (Hathor and Thor's Hammer) repeated. This must have been done to "fill up" the dvd, but only occurs this once. It's no big deal. It's no surprise to find that this is also the disc that includes two of the so-called "missing" episodes, 1969 and Out Of Mind. Trust me, they're all here!Again, I'm not sure about the complaints about the packaging either. I'm not entirely sure how else they were supposed to do it short of giving us a box the size of my living room!In the end this set has done exactly what I wanted it to do - given me the whole series (excluding the movies) and saved me a hell of a lot of shelf space. I previously owned seasons 1 to 6 individually. This box set takes up about a third of the space that those six managed to use.Now I can settle back and watch seasons 6 - 10, which I have never seen. Great stuff.

Several of the discs will not play properly and the packaging was relatively poor.The episodes I could watch are brilliant but I wonder now if this was actually not a genuine product.

Ace collection.

Great tv show the price is to high not everyone can give out £70 pounnds i would get it if you had the price much lower £25 pounds lower love the series not going to pay that much

Ive ordered this set, and Im looking forward to getting it - although Im a little worried about some of the things mentioned. Can anyone comment on the quality of the actual picture from this box set? Is it full DVD quality? (PAL 720x576)Let me tell you about another box set that some are selling as a "Special Edition" set.I fell into the trap of buying the "Special Edition" variation of this box set from eBay for about £70. The box set was in a visually fancier box with a gate in the middle and blue clamp type thing around the outside - like a metal effect foil. Lookes nice in the pictures but is cheap when you actually get hold of it. LOL, on the back there is a typo in the terms of use where is is supposed to say "homes" it says "hournes".The actual disc sleves internally were better than the ones you guys are describing in the official UK box set. They were more like the one you get for software discs - anti scratch.The discs had Japanese symbols around the outside. ALL the discs had a manufacturing defect on the turn table clamp (inner) area causeing excessive vibration while playing. Some even had blemishes on the data area.Its gets worse! The sellers are advertising the sets as PAL and region free. Yes they were region free, but they were not PAL. They were in fact NTSC and very poor quality at that. Details scenes would go really blocky.So if you are tempted to buy the cheaper set that looks fancier, DONT! its cheap foreign rubbish! Pay a bit more and get the official UK set.Ive given this 4 stars because its a great series but if the sleves are card board like the other reviewers have said then it doesnt deserve all 5 stars.

one of the best spin offs ever