COMPLETE I Dream of Jeannie DVD Deal
Jeannie TV Clip shot
I’m not usually one to plug products on my websites.
But a dedicated reader (Snufkin) has found an interesting deal. And since it relates directly to this comic, I figured I’ll pass the word on.
DeepDiscount is currently offering the WHOLE 20-disc collection of the TV Series, ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ for only
$29.99 USD.
So for those who want to get the whole series (or get it as a gift for someone you know enjoys the comic).
Act now, before they realize it was a mistake to discount this series.
You might like to know that I already have the complete collection (and paid a LOT more) which I use for source material. There are many elements in the comic (beyond the obvious) that is inspired/seen on the show.
The only way to keep up is to get the series.
If your a classic TV fan (as I know many of you are), they also have the complete Bewitched DVD Collection .
Now, you might be asking why I would mention a Bewitched TV series on a I Dream of Jeannie Fan Comic site?
No reason… 😉
(he he he…)
Jeannie box winging its way across the Atlantic, all the way to Norway…
(I remember watching this show on Sky on saturdays back when I served in the RNoAF back in the late 80s… I think it was Sky, at least… Half the time the dish was so messed up by all the expensive toys flying around… Yeah… )
Checked Play.com and they wanted €47 for the same box.
(With freight, it came to lightly less than $44 on DD)
Need to consider a bit before ordering Bewitched. Don’t think I ever saw an episode of that…
They must have, It is now $34.99
$34.04
Saw it at Costco for around the same price along with the bewitched one again about the same cost….:)
I like “I Dream of Jeannie”…but never cared much for “Bewitched”…
Should’a mentioned…I got my “I Dream of Jeannie” DVDs at the Barnes & Noble discount bin, I think somewhere between five and ten bucks each plus my store discount. Some may still be out there…
Amazon also has each complete series also for about $30 per series. So if you already use Amazon and not the DeepDiscount thing, you don’t have to setup with a new service to get the deal. Personally I prefer Amazon when the price is similar, good service/shipping/etc (even free shipping). This all being said, I’m somewhat skeptical as the price seems almost too good to be legal, I mean, the cheapest I usually see DVDs these days is like a 5-DVD box set for about $25, so getting a 20-DVD or 30-DVD box set for $30 like these seems insanely cheap. Almost as if they were bootleg. That being said, I can see a legit set being sold at a profit at that price, but it would be a thin profit, with materials costs still being significant.
The profit depends on many factors:
1. Workmanship on the box… Compact boxes are cheaper than a large box with normal DVD covers inside. The cardboard-backed versions that folds over and over and over… even cheaper.
2. Mastering costs. Did they bother with many interactive menus and lots of extras, or is it just the bare bones?
3. Licensing costs.
4. Projected sales numbers.
If this is a ‘compact reissue’ where they’ve already earned back the costs, and have now repackaged a whole stack of DVDs with separate covers into a mre compact packaging, well…
Lets say it would surprise me if both the Sony and DD doesn’t have a 10% profit on each set sold…
Does anyone know of a place I can see an episode or two of Bewitched?
Everything that has been uploaded on Youtube seems to have been blocked.
I now know why it was so cheap…
It’s the shoddiest packaging EVER! Even Chinese knock-offs are better packaged. (In fact the Chinese seems to take some pride in doing a proper box, so at least it’ll look good on your shelf)
The thinnest cardboard box ever, and inside, a thin plastic vac-formed spindle. Then all 20 DVDs stacked onto the spindle, with a cut-out of corrugated cardboard to hold the DVDs in place…
I suggest that everyone does the same as me; use a program such as MakeMKV to copy the DVD contents over to a HDD because those DVDs won’t last long in that packaging!
(I rip them with MakeMKV, then use HandBrake to convert them to .mp4 and reduce the file-size to something manageable)
I’m almost done ripping Season 3 now, and so far, Episode 24 of season 2 (first on DVD 4) is a no go. Hopefully I can polish away the problem…
(Running 2 DVD-ROMs at the same time… It’s needed. The DVDs are so badly mastered that it takes 5 – 7 minutes to load the chapter list)
Anthony-lion, thank you for explaining this, what you actually get. Related question, do the discs look like proper pressed DVDs, or like DVD-Rs? Pressed ones are silver on the data side where DVD-Rs etc tend to be some other color.
They’re proper pressed DVDs, yes.
Trust me, only Sony could make such a shoddy original product.
Chinese knock-offs, also pressed DVDs these days, look a lot better…
(But usually have a lot more spelling errors, both on the cover and subtitles)
The DVD I had problems with turned out to bee some sort of grease on the surface. Wiped it off and it worked OK.
My recommendation is still to copy out the contents, but if you only have one DVD reader, expect a 10hour+ disc swapping marathon.
Took me a bit over 5Hours for the basic rip. The encoding to .mp4 just passed 100 episodes, 39 left, after 20 Hours work. A more modern computer will probably do it a bit faster.
Season 1 was 26GB when ripped(excluded Spanish and Portugese dubs and subtitles, which saved around 50MB on each episode)
encoded to .mp4 it ended up as 10GB.
All in all, I expect all 5 seasons to take up about 40GB.
(Basic .mkv rips totals around 100GB)
If I encoded it to fit a Pad of some sort, it should be possible to squeeze it down to 30GB or less… (There are 32GB SD-Cards on the market… )
The bonus material and extras mentioned on the cover is one documentary, one episode with commentary soundtrack/subtext and a few movie previews. Worse is that the same previews are used several times. Nothing much to celebrate.
For the Spanish and Portugese communities; Sucks to be you…
On one or two episodes the Spanish soundtrack was missing, and the Portugese was missing on at least a dozen episodes.
No English subtitles at all. Which really sucks for the ‘hard of hearing’.
There were Spanish and Portugese subtitles on most if not all episodes.
(All episodes lacking either Spanish or Portugese soundtracks had the subtexts, though.)