I haven't bothered freshjim... had a look at it in HMV though. Unbelievably thin packaging considering the amount of discs. I revisited my R1 DVD boxset with the Encylopedia and couldn't justify the cash with X-Men: First Class and Batman: Arkham City on my wish list!

BDs are more scratch resistant than DVDs and, so far in my experience, do not appear to be prone to the dreaded "disc rot" as has happened with several of my DVDs (Sleepy Hollow being a recent one I discovered, forcing me to buy it again on BD).

As I said previously, if I'm buying BDs then I'd prefer for the extras to be on that format regardless of how much space they use? It just adds a bit of quality/value to the package in my eyes whereas a DVD does exactly the opposite, especially as I consider it to be an cheap, inferior format. It's not like other BD movies haven't shipped with a BD full of SD extras.

It annoyed me somewhat when the Lord of the Rings extended editions were released with NINE DVDs full of extras which would easily have fitted onto THREE BDs. I wonder how long it'll be before those and the NOES extras disc start to rot...

The disappointment comes from not expecting a DVD at all but for the special features on the fifth disc to have been presented in HD. I don't know about anyone else but if I buy a BD boxset then I'd prefer it if all the discs were actually BDs even if the content on them is SD. This is supposed to be an upgrade after all.

I got my boxset today from HMV and disappointingly the fifth disc, strangely numbered '8' (?!?), is a DVD not a BD. Otherwise the package is unexceptional and nowhere near as nice as the 7-disc DVD set which came with a booklet (this one doesn't).

Still, it's the contents of the discs that matter, right? Off to watch the first movie now (I suspect the disc is identical to the one already released).

There's no reason to have any new extras now that we have the Never Sleep Again documentary.

I managed to get a few more disc details. Having said that, this has been released already in a few places and it's supposed to have a lot more than is listed here. This site has more info, but it's unconfirmed as to whether it's all on the UK set as it's not in the press release (would seem odd if we got a different release to the rest of the world though):

http://www.ghoulbasement.com/2011/09/rumored-ex...

Another example of Blu Ray box-art butchery. Will be nice to see it all in HD though.

This *should* be the cover, if they gave a flip about fans anyway - http://www.wrongsideoftheart.com/wp-content/gal...

Hmmm. If I find myself in extra money I'll have to get this. There doesn't seem to be any plan to do a full series release in the US any time soon.

wonder why they didnt include the 8th movie. but outside the mtv thing and the tv show episodes, those extras seem to be stuff from the 1999 encyclopedia disk so thats too bad.

but considering the north american release of Part 2/3 did the same, not too big a surprise. i imagine if they ever make a new collection for north america, it'll just be the individual releases shoved in a lame box. i think the 1999 box set was the first and last time the series will ever be collected and treated properly.

MMmmmmm? Can I really be bothered about this?