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Remember that friend back in the day that when you went over to their place, they had DVDs & CDs laying out on top of each other all over the place? These boxsets are made for that friend.
My parents used to do that.
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Only problem with the Anchor Bay release of Roseanne is that every episode is the syndication edit.
Mill Creek actually has the original broadcast version.
Man I have the Roseanne, That 70's Show, and Married with Children sets and I agree: the absolute WORST packaging.
Mill Creek has been doing packaging like this for years now. The biggest complaint from collectors was always their packaging, and they for whatever reason made it worse.
Mill Creek packaging is pretty bad, I agree, but I have yet to have any damaged discs/discs that don't work. Some people really act like DVD discs are as fragile as a house of cards and overreact.
Also, Mill Creek skimps on the packaging because they are a budget priced products company. My Married with Children Complete Series set from Mill Creek has shitty packaging, but then again I only paid $25 for it.
The Married with Children and Miami Vice Box Sets are a different kind of Mill Creek Garbage Packaging
As are Knight Rider and Quantum Leap, among others.
Everyone watched Murder, She Wrote with their Grandmother...😂
I agree man Roseanne is definitely my favourite tv show ever. Can’t beat the Halloween episodes either
That is exactly how they did 7 seasons of Hunter. My discs are fine, but I am always extremely careful with them.
Mill Creek uses the same boxes for their public domain movie sets.
Great video. You should do another one focused on scratches. I’m constantly getting crap discs out of the shrink. I hate to request replacements but we’re paying good money for this stuff! As collectors, not only should the packaging be hassle-free but our discs should not be arriving scratched either. It’s all coming out of that single pressing plant in Mexico.
Mill Creek & VEI have done this for years. I have everything from Married With Children to Hunter to The Commish to Poltergeist: The Legacy to Matt Houston to Viper. They're all like that. I baby them and they still get slight scratches.
This is exactly why I specifically paid extra for The Three Stooges: The Ultimate Collection, VS the regular set.
Because the Ultimate Edition has each volume in its own slipcover box and cases, while the regular set has all the discs stacked on top of each other in spindle-like packaging.
I learned my lesson the last time when I bought the complete series of Bewitched, and it came in stacked spindle-type packaging.
Mill Creek also released "Mad About You" and "Wings" the same way as "Married : With Children".
I picked up "Sliders" complete series, it was like your Married with Children with cardboard sleeves. I went ahead and moved them over to standard dvd cases of some sort (been years, and I currently don't have access to my collection) - someday I'll make some of my own inserts (kept the original box/sleeves though). I'm pretty confident I have a 'Married with Children' set that isn't in cardboard slips.... I think it was like your Mill Creek Roseanne set.
The That 70’s Show boxset sucks too. I hate the cardboard sleeves
Buy it blu ray, it’s 70 times better
I have a friday the 13th set where the disc are jammed in cardboard slots and they stick and rip apart pulling them out
King of Queens complete series was originally stacked on a spindle and had flimsy box as it’s only means of protection…box got destroyed and lost all the discs.
Haha I bought that set and ended up putting them in a zipper case. Terrible packaging.
It is rare - very rare - that I comment on a youtube video. But I will comment on this one.
I have an ungodly number of Mill Creek sets. Many of them are the Rosanne packaging, some are even the old cardboard velcro box sets that came just before the Rosanne packaging. Unlike yourself, I can live with them. Somehow my discs have *not* been damaged and they take up precious little space on my shelf for all they contain.
BUT.... (...and yes, there is a "but" here...)
When they switched to the Married With Children packaging, they lost me as a customer. When I saw the title of this video, I watched it thinking it was way unlikely it would be the same packaging. (In all honesty, I thought it was going to be the Showa era Godzilla set packaging - oh boy was that bad. I'd have it if not for the packaging.) Seeing we are on the same page, well, halfway, I do feel your pain. There is much in that MWC packaging that I would love to have, but I won't buy it. Not with that horrible packaging.
Years ago they released "Are You Being Served?" in packaging that took up half or more of the shelf. I wanted it but couldn't justify the space. Later they released it in a set that took up the space of two regular DVD packages. I bought it, surprised it even had two discs of nothing but extras. So far I have not had a problem with the packaging.
Packaging isn't everything, but it is something media collectors do take into consideration.
Sanford and Son is probably the the worst ever. There was like 20 disks and all of them were on a single spindle.
The married with children set I have is like that but has 2 of them
I have it too. I just put it in a 20 disc folder and put a “Sanford and Son” sticker on it lol
@kchrules775 try the good times set season one is on 1 disc and the rest each season is on 2 discs, Millcreek ent. Releases are junk quality.
Oh god, my copy of S2D1 in that set barely works.
I feel you,man. My copy of Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland 50th anniversary boxed set is also problematic packaging. The 4 discs have fallen down into the packaging just like your godzilla boxed set.
I feel your pain, bro. I hate shitty, cheap packaging in box sets, and the envelopes are the worst. I tend to buy individual season sets instead of box sets just for this reason. The Mill Creek individual season sets for MWC are actually pretty great, & they have the original theme music & unedited episodes, unlike the original sets put out by Sony. Sure, it's more expensive, & takes up more shelf space, but the peace of mind is worth it.
Great video, Christian! Mill Creek has definitely put out some major stinkers with packaging. I wish Shout Factory could handle all tv series physical releases because they typically do a great job handling tv shows.
Very true-- I have Shout!'s all-in-ones of Hart to Hart and T.J. Hooker, and all discs are well-protected in individual seasonal cases.
I have Mill Creek Entertainment's horror classics collection, and my god when I first opened it and saw the packaging I felt like I saw suffering in a box
I bought the Mill Creek "must watch television" releases of Airwolf, Miami Vice & Rockford Files.
Cheap packaging and every disc had freezing picture issues.
Then they insisted I had to pay all postage fees for a return
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Mill creek is just godawful. I noticed a few years ago that a complete series box set was released of news radio, one of my favorite shows of all time, put it into my Amazon cart, then noticed that the box set was made by mill creek. As soon as I saw that I instantly deleted the thing from my cart.
Ohhhh, not the sleeves 😣
They did that to Sliders too. Thankfully, nowadays, I basically just use DVDs and BluRays to backup the discs
Yep I have the Knight Rider and Astro Boy complete series plus That's 70s show Blu-ray thier discs are also stacked.
Medium Rare's release of the 1960s classic The Outer Limits blu ray set has abominable packaging also, which is terrible and hard work just to get the discs out. The discs just stacked on top of each other. Cheap packaging. The only saving grace is that the transfers are very good.
I think the worse DVD box set I've seen is Sanford and Son. All 5 seasons come stacked on a single disc spindle. What's worse is I think it was released directly by Sony.
6, to be exact, but yes, that's how it was.
I actually like the paper envelopes more than the weird, hard to remove, fragile, stacked plastic things most other companies use. I always feel like I'm about to break the disk when trying to pull it out of the stacked plastic cases.
Paper envelopes used to be fairly common on computer software; never had any trouble with them there. Except for that one time I lost a Roller Coaster Tycoon disk at the bottom if my laptop bag, but that was on me, not the manufacturer.
Got the same deal with a two case noir film set one was about mobsters and another about detectives. So I went to Cheapo Discs in St. Paul, Minnesota and got one of those disc storage books from back in the day.
Ha, I remember season 1 of Renegade (also by Mill Creek and gotten out of the Walmart discount bin) being packaged like Roseanne. Didn't have a problem playing the episodes. Mill Creek also put out Quantum Leap after Universal. Universal "cheaped out on the music" (Bakula's words), replacing most of it. Mill Creek packaged Quantum Leap like Married With Children BUT also paid to re-license all of the original music. I haven't rewatched the entire series but rather all of the "lore" episodes. No problems so far.
I hate any package with overlapping discs, where you have to take the top one out to get the one under it. Also wish they had used 2-sided discs more often which would’ve required half as many discs.
"I hate any package with overlapping discs, where you have to take the top one out to get the one under it."
This is something that CBS and Universal have done with quite a few shows, like Have Gun Will Travel, The Untouchables, The Streets of San Francisco, Columbo, Emergency!, The A-Team and Murder She Wrote (I have a few of those).
Worst packaging I own has to be Sony's Three Stooges box set. It's a cardboard box with a plastic tray, similar to the Roseanne set but the discs are stacked without sleeves or anything to separate them. The whole thing is a cheap mess.
OMFG!!! You own a Murder She Wrote boxset!
Sorry I can't help laughing.
I hate FRIENDS, not a Fan of most U.S. sitcoms. I own 4 Mill Creek Horror boxsets, back when they were Region Free, now they're all Region 1 which pisses me off, I live in Europe. Cool video 😃
I miss the early 2000s they used to make nice TV box sets on dvd
Roseanne is definitely my absolute favorite show too ❤
Mill Creek released a bunch of 50-200 packs of horror movies around 2008-2011, packaged similarly Rosanne… but even worse. They were in cheap ass cardboard boxes that closed with little Velcro tabs
Mill Creek is awful. They just stack their DVDs in big, flimsy boxes. They don’t even care about physical media collectors.
I don’t have a lot of disposable income and love physical media so for some things Mill Creek is all I can afford. To combat the shitty packaging I go to an office supply store and buy some DVD cases for cheap and I’m set!
Not always
These are terrible, but the absolute worst are the stack-packs, multiple discs stacked on top of each other on the same spindle. Like Mill Creek's DVD release of The 10th Kingdom. Three discs chilling on top of each other, no space between them, cursed to scuff each other until the end of time. An anime series Princess Tutu was released as a stack pack three separate times, and that series had SIX discs sitting on each other. I also found this on the 4K Steelbook of Forrest Gump, the left spindle has two discs and the right spindle has two or three. Steelbooks have room to install two disc slots on each frame, but they took the absolute worst route possible. I hate these packaging designs so bad 😭
That's funny. I have the Married with Children set with that same artwork but mine came in the same packaging as the Roseanne set. The plastic case with the discs stacked on top of each other. I was hopping that there was an alternative case from a 3rd party on ebay to replace it but couldnt find anything
Yeah. I purchased the dvd set for that old show "Miami Ink" off Amazon. When it arrived, the set is a long folding cardboard snake with each disc double stacked in a sleeve style. EVERY disc was destroyed 😅.
this is how all their dvds are packaged now just get yourself a spindle for them
Quantum Leap from Mill Creek is even worse. It's those shitty cardboard slips with 2 discs each, just sitting in a box with a thin flap that won't stay closed. The cardboard things aren't labeled so to find the disc you need you have to pull each one out. It's complete garbage.
But I'd also like to send an honorable mention to the Wall-E DVD. That sucks too. A thin crappy cardboard pop out slip box that just falls apart and scratches the DVD all to hell.
Discs and paper: never a good couple. i hate all type of packaging when you need to slide the disc into a paper, envelope, or cardboard tray. paper attacts mold far easier than a proper plastic casing. the first Star Wars complete saga on Blu-ray (2011) or the Titanic 4K boxset (2023) terrible decisions.
the boxet with plastic sleeve could be just fine *if* they use an actual CD binder so we can flip through the discs safely, and no paper involved: theres a reason no CD binder, since day one, uses paper to host the disc.
4k collection of a TV show? That’s going to be a lot of disks lol. Also super expensive!
and likely in the incorrect aspect ratio
Every single multi disc mill creek release I own has that envelope bullshit and the discs are all ruined from regular usage, haven’t bought anything from them willingly in years
As much as I hate Millcreeks tv dvd boxsets... I have the Roseanne one and bought my own cases and made artwork to have on my shelf instead.
I will say that Millcreek has done well on their bluray boxsets ie: That 70s Show, Dawson's Creek, and Community
Mill Creek has been doing packaging like this for years now. They had the license to That 70s Show and the Ernest movies. Packaged them the exact same way. The only time I've seen them use regular packaging was with episode compilations.
Yeah, I got hosed on the married with children one myself.
The moment that monstrosity (pun not intended) appeared briefly sideways at the bottom of the screen I KNEW it was Godzilla 😖
I got, maybe, an even worse dvd box of ’allo ’allo. A brittish sitcom being a parody on a series about the french resistance during WW2.
The discs are in pockets on paper pages and many fall out on opening the case. So its even hard to sort them after season and episodes since you have to redo it after each view of a disc. They end up falling and rolling away and getting scratched.
Cheapest release yet I own. So angry.
Unworthy is a word that coms to mind. Disrespect another.
Cheers!
I hate those big DVD cases. I usually pass if I know that is how it comes. Sometimes you don't know till you get since they don't show pics beyond the front.
My Quantum Leap collection is like that Married With Children set
Mill Creek the Rockford Files packaging is a disaster, also Miami Vice. They should just package them in Ziplock sandwich bags!
My universal classic monster blu ray box is horrid! But nothing compared to this Millcreek 😂😂😂
I have some boxsets like that Godzilla one. First thing I always do is take out the discs and put them in regular jewel cases.
My most hated boxset is the Network release of Homicide: Life on the streets. You know how recordable media comes stacked on top of each other in so called cake boxes? Now combine that idea with the "Murder she wrote" packaging. Sheer lunacy.
Oof, I saw that Godzilla set online before. When I was trying to get some of the movies for my collection.
Took one look at it
, didn't even see it opened, and said "........Nope". I'm even more glad I made that decision now.
And that's why, IMO, videos that show how these releases are set up are very useful to find out what you'll be dealing with, and might even save you money.
I had the sliders season1&2 dvd boxset that the discs didn't even come in cases they stuck the discs in a block of foam to be displayed
Aw gotta love DVD releases where the discs are slid into tight cardboard cut outs. Great examples you shared!! I collect the Simpsons box sets (mainly for nostalgia and artwork) and for a few seasons they decided the discs directly slid into the box was a good idea. Very annoying when DVDs are so prone to scratches.
Wings complete series came in 16 individual DVD paper sleeves. I recently bought a 16 disc case and replaced the sleeves. Well worth it and the case artwork fit perfectly.
Those packagings are truly terrible especially when things get damaged just by normal usage. I'm not keen on my criterion NOTLD blu ray with the packaging being all cardboard. Another thing I hate is those double sided dvds.
Mill Creek is notorious for having the worst packaging out of all of the physical media companies. Normally you should avoid their products if they exceed more than two discs and always do a review for the audio and video of their products. A perfect example was their release of Like Father Like Son and the aftermath of that release.
Used to watch Murder, She wrote and Matlock with my Grandma back in the day! Great shows!
Haha, watched Murder, She Wrote with my grandma as well. 👍
As for Matlock they’ve remade and gender swapped it and it’s coming out this fall starring Kathy Bates, if I was gonna watch Matlock obviously I’d watch the original version with Andy Griffith. Kathy Bates is wonderful but make some new ideas for Christ sake.
@@RT7411 Ridiculous! They could have just made a new character for her along the lines of... However it seems like the Panderverse is still growing and getting more whack by the day.
I had the old releases from anchor bay from Roseanne too. Then only purchased the ones from Mill Creek because they had the uncut versions, as opposed to the cut syndicated episodes that the anchor bay versions had. It sucks!
3rd rock from the sun was the same way with the cardboard sleeves. Mill creek is making these sets as cheap as possible for a premium price. Really pisses me off. I’ll send the shit right back to em. I’m glad you called them out on this. Great video man!
My collection of Roseanne from Mill Creek is like your Married with Children. Terrible packaging
The packaging for the _Futurama_ DVDs/Blu-rays is also garbage. Some of the cases for _The Simpsons_ are terrible, too - especially those character head boxes. Anything that's like a digipak is a waste of money.
I definitely can relate to you when it comes to Mill Creek. My Wings Complete Series set is exactly like the Roseanne set you have. Plus my The Rockford Files set is exactly the same as the Married... With Children set you have. For my Wings set I have been meaning to replace the case with a better one so I could use the artwork with the new case but haven't had time to.
I had to buy Sanford and Son three times before I finally got one where all of the discs worked.
I have a set like that Married with Children. I think it was Quantum Leap. Knightrider set was similar to the Roseanne set.
I have a DVD of the complete series of "Heathcliff and the Cadillac Cats" released by Mill Creek that's just like the "Married With Children" set you showed off. Why Mill Creek made a case like that thats super easy to damage the case and disc is beyond me.
Sony/Columbia sees this and says "hold my beer." I bought their "Studio Classics Collection - 70s" box set. I think they had an overstock of certain DVDs and decided to put together nine-DVD sets to clear their inventory. The box is made of the same flimsy cardboard that your "Married With Children" DVDs came in. Inside the Sony set is a single flimsy plastic tray. All of the DVDs stack on top of each other on a single spindle. They don't even have the individual slip covers that Mill Creek provides. They are held in place by a cardboard cutout (that is sturdier than the cardboard box it came in) that is cut to a size that stays in place by being almost too big to fit in the holder. You should buy one of these boxes just to see this mess.
the mill creek versions of married with children and Roseanne have at least one good thing over every other version. they are the complete episodes(mostly) and not the edited syndication versions.
And there's the rub, which version you want-- do you want the generally full outings with absolutely horrible packaging, or syndie versions with somewhat better packaging?
I hate 3 forms of packaging.
1. All discs stacked, (especially a whole series of a show worth of discs stacked).
2. Discs slid into a Cardboard pocket.
3. Discs put into paper sleeves.
And, for some reason, I dislike how mill Creek puts their name on the disc.
I have that same set for Married with Children.
I own the entire series of Roseanne and Married... With Children. I have the individual seasons of Roseanne (same ones you have). My copy of Married... With Children is different than yours though. The copy I have is actually like the first copy of Roseanne you showed. Big dvd case with each disc in black slips on the inside. I'm not a fan of it, but I really haven't had issues with the discs getting damaged.
I own multiple of the mill Creek entertainment, and they do have these big cases, but with sleeves
Agreed on the Godzilla box. Why does criterion hate functionality and aesthetics? The box with the envelopes has a variation that puts a flap on the envelopes so the discs stay inside. I have actually had this work well. Ok I do have even worse packaging. It's for the UK 21 disc DVD set of hammer films. It was so bad I switched discs to envelopes and tore out the guts. I will post a picture. The hammer set had spindles that were stacked 5 each tight. Really tight on the spindle. I had to really be careful to not break the discs when removing. It couldn't possibly be used as a holder for the discs. It's so bad....😂
Mill Creek is the worst. They always take the lazy way out. Their transfers are also half-assed. Nothing is supposed to touch the surface of the disc because sooner or later, the discs will be rendered unplayable. I put any movies or TV shows that came in sleeves in a proper DVD or Blu-Ray case. I’m shocked that Criterion did Godzilla like they did! I make new art and put them in a multi disc blu-ray case. I took my Rosanne seasons (mine came in those dreaded cardboard sleeves) and put them in 2 multi-DVD cases. I’m always shocked when major studios or boutique labels slide their discs in those awful cardboard binders. It always compromises the discs sooner or later.
Mill Creek is a budget label. Presumably, they do that kind of packaging to cut costs. My question is, how is it cheaper to design and pack that custom crap, over using the industry standard plastic cases with flip trays and spindles?
Also, the Universal Monsters 4K UHD Limited Edition set comes in the exact same packaging as the Criterion Godzilla set, except they added plastic nubs for the discs to sit on, instead of sliding in between the layers of cardboard. A simple thing that works much better!
i have the Mill Creek DVD set of The Greatest American Hero. While it is packaged similar to the Rosanne set with the cheap sleeves, its 3 seasons on 9 discs so there is enough room that they don't come flying out when I open the box, so... yay me, I guess...😐
Yeah, agreed on the Godzilla set. One of the disks kept getting stuck in the glue. So I eventually got an 8 disk case and move them in there. The book still looks good on he shelf though.
Great video. Just to share some suggestions (about your playback issues) and thoughts on the topics discussed...
I want to be clear that I am NOT defending Mill Creek's horrible packaging in any way. I agree with you about how much it sucks. I have some TV show sets that came in the same kind of packaging as that Married With Children set, and OMG I hate it so much! I also have some sets similar to your Roseanne set, and I hate that as well.
But have you tried playing the discs is anything other than the PS5? The reason I ask.... and this is VERY anecdotal, so take it with a huge grain of salt.... I've seen some comments online (reddit threads, etc.) about the PS5 being finicky when it comes to watching movies and TV shows on discs. A lot of people commenting on having issues, even with brand new well packaged discs. It could just be finicky in general with that sort of thing for some reason.
I did see a comment from someone saying that they didn't have problems watching movies/tv shows on discs for the longest time on their PS5, and then suddenly it started and happened with several discs that never gave them problems previously. What they realized is that they still had a digital game that was open in the background. Apparently the PS5 will allow a DVD/Blu-Ray/4K disc to be put in and played while the game is still open and in standby mode, but doing so was interfering with the disc playback. When they shut the game down, they no longer had problems. I saw a few people reply saying that they did the same after reading his comment and it worked. Maybe that is not what your issue is, but it is worth checking. Whether or not that fixes it, if you have any other players, you may want to test them out that. If you have a disc drive for your computer, you can also scan the discs for errors.
Scuffs and scratches can certainly cause playback issues, but sometimes they are just cosmetic. As obnoxiously terrible as Mill Creek's packaging is, I would think that if every instance of this kind of packaging (or even half of them) was resulting in discs skipping, they would have A LOT of discs being returned and would be forced to change their packaging. So you may want to rule out if it really is the discs (which maybe it is), or something with the PS5.
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Regarding the Married with Children sets, the one pictured that was in the goldish colored packaging was the complete series set that was released by Sony before Mill Creek got the license. Sony originally released the seasons individually and then the complete series set. The problem with the Sony releases is that they didn't want to keep paying for the rights for the "Love and Marriage" song. I think only the first two seasons had the correct theme song. After that, they opted to not pay for the licensing and the subsequent season sets had a crappy generic replacement song instead.
The Mill Creek releases actually have the proper theme song on all seasons. Granted, if the cause of your playback issues is genuinely scratches on the discs and not something to do with the PS5, then it's sort of a moot point in that watching the episodes with a different theme song would be better than not being able to watch them at all, but if the discs do work (or if you can get a copy that is fine), the Mill Creek version is better for that reason.
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On a separate note, while I would agree that the Mill Creek packaging is worse, I must say that I still also REALLY hate those large clear cases. In general I hate cases where they overlap discs, in which it is necessary to remove one disc to get to another. Also, that are instances of those cases where discs hub are not only positioned where the discs overlap, but they ALSO stack more than one disc on the same hub. It drives me insane! And I've had some of those sets where because of that, a disc or two (or more) come loose, move around, and the discs get scuffed and scratched as a result.
I will say that I do appreciate packaging that tries to be be reasonably compact and not take up more space than is necessary. Looking back on the early days of TV shows on DVD (which I still have a lot of those early sets in my collection), when shows came in more premium packaging, sure there were some sets that came in really nice looking packaging (like the fold out digi-packs, etc.). But many of them are very inefficient when it comes to shelf space and take up WAY more room than necessary. They put them in that kind of packaging to make it feel like people were getting more value for the higher prices that were being charged back then.
I personally prefer packaging that strikes a good balance between taking up as little space as needed, but while still prioritizes protecting the discs and making them easy to access. One disc per hub, no overlapped discs, etc.
While I've dabbled a bit in printing up custom artwork in the past, at some point I'm going to have to transfer these series that come in all these types of terrible packaging to better cases and make/print up custom artwork as needed.
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And on one final note, regarding that TMNT set....
I agree about what a mess the individual releases were. Going from Volume 6 to Season 4 was very confusing. Plus there was a lot of weird, inconsistent packaging with those releases (the Season 5 pizza box set was odd.... as was releasing the Season 7 discs individually, then later as one set).
That being said, at no point were the episodes rearranged or the discs re-authored with the Lionsgate complete series set (neither the Van packaging release or the version you have there). The only difference is the outer labels on the discs themselves (with different art and numbering to reflect the complete series disc count). The on-disc contents are identical, and in all instances it is a total of 23 discs. When watching the discs, the on screen menus still reflect the volume numbers for the earlier releases, and the Season/disc numbers from Season 4 onward.
To clear up the confusion over the volume releases.... Volume 1 was all of Season 1 (plus some episodes from the final season as bonus features), Volume 2 was all of Season 2, and Volumes 3 to 6 add up to all of Season 3 and the first episode of Season 4 for some reason (so that episode is repeated on the first disc of Season 4).
At one point after the complete series was released, they also released a Season 3 set.... which is just Volumes 3 to 6 with the labels on the discs showing "Season 3, Disc #", but the on screen menus still showing the volume numbers.
So, no matter what form anyone has these releases in (the individual volumes, seasons, the complete series, etc.), the on disc content are unfortunately identical..... including those early volume releases cramming too many episodes on a single disc (with the later seasons giving them a bit more room to "breath"), and the prime time specials (like Planet of the Turtloids) being bonus features on the final season disc, instead of placed where they belong in viewing order within the rest of the series.
Of note is that there is a new release of the original 80s/90s TMNT cartoon coming out in October, this time being released by Paramount. It will be interesting to see if these will be new encodes or not. I'm not holding my breath on it, though. It is still 23 total discs, and currently up for preorder for less than $30. I can't see them putting much work into it at that price. I'm going to guess that it will more or less be the same on disc content, with them maybe replacing the Lionsgate logo with Paramount. If would be nice if they at least update the menus to reflect the proper disc numbering, but even that I won't hold my breath on.
While not the exact same thing, this seems like it might be similar as the Blu-Ray releases of much of the Miramax film library. At one point Disney/Buena Vista owned it and was releasing discs (including but not limited to Kevin Smith's movies Clerks, Chasing Amy, and Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back). They sold it off and at some point Lionsgate re-released them, and then later Paramount released them again. As far as I know, there's nothing different about the transfer of the movies and on disc content in general.... just a change in who is distributing them.
"If you have a disc drive for your computer, you can also scan the discs for errors."
That's what I did when I first got that SDS (Studio Distribution Services) all-in-one release of Emergency! in 2022-- I was running the discs through, making sure everything was kosher, and then discovered that the fourth disc of the sixth go was cracked! I never expected that, and it took me out of the mood somewhat, so much so that I had to get that sixth go in full individually to replace that last disc (EBay's disc replacements [where you can find them] are generally for more modern shows, and not so much for the classics which I enjoy).
I have a Sanford and Son series set like these, and i think that was actually put out by sony. All the dvds are just stacked on top of each other. Like stack of DVD-Rs with a disturbingly cheap piece of cardboard to "hold" the dvds down.
My worst packaging experience was the I Spy season sets from Image Entertainment. The discs were held on so tightly to the packaging, one disc snapped from the inner ring to the outer portion while trying to remove it. Some of the later Simpsons sets were pretty terrible too, the discs were held in cardboard slots that completely covered the discs. you had to hold the discs on both sides and try to get them out without scratching them. I have the Mills Creek set for Sliders, flimsiest packaging ever.
I got Grounded For Life by Mill Creek, and it's the same package as Rosanne. Surprisingly though, I just recently picked up a steelbook of Mothra from Mill Creek and it's actually nice.
I got Futurama the complete series and it's hard for me to take the discs out but when I do it freezes on me when I put a disc in my PlayStation 5
I own that Godzilla set! I knew of the issue from Criterion reviews, so I was very careful with it. I bought a nice case for the discs. The art book is just on its own from the discs now.
Check the upcoming Friends 4K release to see if it'll have the extended versions of episodes. Those were released on DVD but not on Blu-ray.
I have 2 copies of That 70s show from Mill Creek because the discs are stacked and they are scratched
There's a seller on Etsy with a nice custom case for the Godzilla set. Hopefully Criterion will never do anything like that again.
Great Video CHH. and I knew you were going to bring out the Godzilla set. damn shame.
All of my Mill Creek Ultraman releases are fantastic.
I ended up getting custom boxset cases on Etsy a while back for the Godzilla set, just so I didn't have to deal with the book of doom!.
There's still some available through various sellers now.
I've Mill Creek's Knight Rider DVD set is packages the same way as Married With Children.
As someone who has at least 10 Millcreek box sets (public domain movies I assume) I can tell you this is how they package all of them. Actually the packaging is better than the quality of the movies all of which look like they were ripped off a 3rd generation VHS tape & in some cases it's obvious the source material was recorded off TV & then ripped from a 3rd generation VHS tape. However...I expected much better from that Criterion Godzilla set. Shame on whoever decided those discs should be stored like that.