Twilight Zone 9 Disc Boxed Set@ Overstock.com$67.60

[AMDBOY]

Sci-Fi channel has a TwilightZone Marathon on New Years Eve. Made me wish for a deal on a Boxed Set. This is cheaper than most places. I pulled the trigger on The Twilight Zone DVD 9 Disc Boxed set of Collection 1. Overstock.com had them for about $30 cheaper than anyone else. $67.60 less 10% off your entire first order=$6.76plus $1.40 shipping! (to So. Cal.) and no tax for me!! TOTAL $62.24 for Collection 1, 9 Disc Boxed Set. Amazon wanted $89.99.Happy new year to all.Twilight Zone Collection 1, 9 Disc Boxed Set In addition, looks like Walmart.com has Twilight Zone collection 3 for $50.50 plus $4.97 shipping Walmart collection 3

 

[SRGilbert]

Please don't take this as a threadcrap, but those sets are old and now discontinued. All 5 seasons of The Twilight Zone have been remastered and re-released over the past year and the new sets are infinitly better than the older sets is every measurable way. They aren't even that much more in most cases, especially if you wait for DDD's next sale. I haven't paid more than $58 for mine, a couple of them less than that.

The new "Definative Editions" have the following advantages

New remasters from the original elements (old DVD's were done from same crappy masters as the VHS tapes were)
All seasons are presented in air date order (old sets were all out of order supposedly grouped by "themes")
Many episodes have commentary tracks, isolated music scores, and a bonus disk of materials (none of this on the old sets)
Rod Serlings "coming next week" promos" very cool.
New sets come in nice thinpack cases (not sure about old sets, digipack maybe?)
Season one comes with the fantastic book "The Twilight Zone Companion", by Marc Scott Zicree. Far more than just an episode guide, at 454 pages, it's the most exhaustive tome of it's kind on the series.

There are numerous reviews on the net that compare the old with the new as well, it's worth a look.


Hope this helps!

 

[Sanjoelo]

Yes, definitely hold out for the Definitive Edition. It's leaps and bounds above the original season sets. Dvdtalk just picked it as one of their Top 20 DVD's of 2005, and they don't award these carelessly.

 

[AMDBOY]

Thanks guys. Being a true enthusiast of Twilight Zone, I really appreciate the info. These new Definitive Editions are the way to go. SRGilbert, what is the site"DDD". I do need a great price to feed my addiction. Sanjoelo, thanks for the link, very nice.

 

[mscdex0]

Originally posted by: AMDBOY
Thanks guys. Being a true enthusiast of Twilight Zone, I really appreciate the info. These new Definitive Editions are the way to go. SRGilbert, what is the site"DDD". I do need a great price to feed my addiction. Sanjoelo, thanks for the link, very nice.

DDD = DeepDiscountDvd.com

 

[SRGilbert]

Originally posted by: AMDBOY
Thanks guys. Being a true enthusiast of Twilight Zone, I really appreciate the info. These new Definitive Editions are the way to go. SRGilbert, what is the site"DDD". I do need a great price to feed my addiction. Sanjoelo, thanks for the link, very nice.

Glad we could help, I know how much I hate getting stuck with an older inferior version!

As far as price, the best bet is www.dvdpricesearch.com, you will see that DDD doesn't always have the best everyday price (always with free shipping though) , but twice a year (June and November I believe) they have been doing a 20% off sale that will almost always make them the cheapest anywhere. I just got season 3 and 4 for $58.51 each, shipped. Will probably wait till June to get Season 5.
If you can wait that long, you can get all 5 seasons in a single pack for a great deal. The 5 pack is normally $345.80 but would be $276.64 on sale, or $55.33 per season.