Do Your Dallas DVDs Skip?

[Bobby Southworth]

I just thought I'd also mention that my seasons 3 and 4 DVDs skipped and froze straight out of the box. It wasn't due to time or age. They were defective from the start. Thank goodness now for streaming.

 

[Mustard]

Thank goodness now for streaming.

That can go wrong too. Buffering issues.

 

[Matthew Blaisdel]

I just thought I'd also mention that my seasons 3 and 4 DVDs skipped and froze straight out of the box. It wasn't due to time or age. They were defective from the start. Thank goodness now for streaming.

Never count on streaming! Those are ALWAYS time restricted licenses and once they run out and not enough people watched it lately, it is unlikely they get remewed and your favorite show will just completly vanish. Happened to me several times aleady and i was SO glad i had them on DVD or even Bluray.

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

Never count on streaming! Those are ALWAYS time restricted licenses and once they run out and not enough people watched it lately, it is unlikely they get remewed and your favorite show will just completly vanish. Happened to me several times aleady and i was SO glad i had them on DVD or even Bluray.

Much better to have the DVD boxsets.

I'd love to have the series on Blu-ray, all cleaned up and remastered. There's less chance of Blu-ray's skipping.

 

[Matthew Blaisdel]

I'd love to have the series on Blu-ray

Me too, but there is no chance for old Warner distributed TV shows anymore, they stopped almost a decade ago with updating their back catalogue.
Not even new shows that already exist in HD make it on Bluray anymore, like TNT Dallas.
The whole Bluray market is slowly dying anyway, even Sony, the inventors of Bluray will drastically reduce their Bluray titles stock from 2022 to only 500 titles still available. The chance for new releases of TV shows on physical media (including DVD) will sadly die out completly in the next few years, because of streaming.

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

Me too, but there is no chance for old Warner distributed TV shows anymore, they stopped almost a decade ago with updating their back catalogue.
Not even new shows that already exist in HD make it on Bluray anymore, like TNT Dallas.
The whole Bluray market is slowly dying anyway, even Sony, the inventors of Bluray will drastically reduce their Bluray titles stock from 2022 to only 500 titles still available. The chance for new releases of TV shows on physical media (including DVD) will sadly die out completly in the next few years, because of streaming.

A shame as I much prefer physical media to streaming.

 

[Matthew Blaisdel]

Yes, but they don't want us to have our favorite shows on our shelves, they want us to pay for the same content every month until we die. That's the future.

If anyone still has those double sided DVD sets of Dallas, i STRONGLY recommend to update to the single sided version RIGHT NOW, even if the old double sided discs still play fine. But there is a problem with the glue they used to hold the double sided discs together, it escapes into the data-structure-layer and thus making the DVDs unreadable, and that's just not a matter of "if", but "when". That WILL happen!
So please do all update to the single sided discs, as even those are discontinued already and are NOT beeing produced anymore. Once they're all out of stock, that chance is gone for good ... and prices will rise incredibly high for those remaining on ebay or similar platforms, as they will become very rare in future.
Time to upgrade is right now, do not wait, you will regret it one day.

And as J.R. would say: You have been fair warned!

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

Yes, but they don't want us to have our favorite shows on our shelves, they want us to pay for the same content every month until we die. That's the future.

If anyone still has those double sided DVD sets of Dallas, i STRONGLY recommend to update to the single sided version RIGHT NOW, even if the old double sided discs still play fine. But there is a problem with the glue they used to hold the double sided discs together, it escapes into the data-structure-layer and thus making the DVDs unreadable, and that's just not a matter of "if", but "when". That WILL happen!
So please do all update to the single sided discs, as even those are discontinued already and are NOT beeing produced anymore. Once they're all out of stock, that chance is gone for good ... and prices will rise incredibly high for those remaining on ebay or similar platforms, as they will become very rare in future.
Time to upgrade is right now, do not wait, you will regret it one day.

And as J.R. would say: You have been fair warned!

This is the one with the single sided discs. However there's just cardboard slots for the discs so you have to be careful taking them in and out.

 

[Matthew Blaisdel]

...or just store them savely elsewhere.

 

[Mustard]

Streaming will never catch on with large sections of the public. They want physical media that they own, not "have access to".

Mind, the speed of VHS vanishing off retail shop shelves in 2003 and early 2004 really caught me by surprise. 2002 was the first year that DVD overtook VHS. So, 20 years ago at this point, VHS was still more popular than DVD, just about.

 

[Matthew Blaisdel]

Streaming has already caught on with the majority of the popularity a few years ago, a hundred times more than physical media ever did.
I don't know ANY person who doesn't have at least one streaming service. But i know a lot who never collected DVDs. Hell, even my Mom has Netflix now!
Sad, but true.

 

[Bobby Southworth]

how much is the complete series on single sided discs?

 

[Miss Texas 1967]

how much is the complete series on single sided discs?

You can buy the season sets individually or the box set which is less than $150 USD. For what you get (14 seasons + 3 movies + 1 special) it's a good deal (less than $10 per item within the box)
https://store.hmv.com/store/film-tv/dvd/dallas-the-complete-series or https://www.amazon.com/Dallas-Complete-Collection-1-14-Movies/dp/B007N0IKKM/
As @Via The Void says below it appears to be cardboard slots which is disappointing. The earlier release which I have (pictured below) is all single sided discs in plastic containers. The only downside to these is the first few seasons are in the wider boxes with flippy things which is perfect whereas the later seasons are in smaller boxes with overlapped discs. I don't think I own anything doublesided however, in any form.

This is the one with the single sided discs. However there's just cardboard slots for the discs so you have to be careful taking them in and out.

 

[Miss Texas 1967]

Streaming will never catch on with large sections of the public. They want physical media that they own, not "have access to".

I wouldn't call myself a collector of much except physical media. Whether that be books or DVDs, if I like it then I own it. There's so much that just isn't available on streaming so DVD is the only option (especially outside the US) and the idea of paying for access to something without actually having it bothers me. I've been caught out knowing something was on Netflix because I watched it there and then the next time I go to find it it's gone because the licence expired. I like looking at the pictures on the case and I like the access to special features too, it's all part of the experience.
Then again there are people in my life (I'm "young millennial") who probably haven't bought a DVD for more than a decade. DVD sales are surely dropping but there has to be a market there too.

 

[Seaviewer]

...or just store them savely elsewhere

Swapping them over into the old cases could work, unless...
If they're single-sided does that mean there are twice as many?

 

[Matthew Blaisdel]

Swapping them over into the old cases could work, unless...
If they're single-sided does that mean there are twice as many?

Yes, that should be the case. Actually those dreadful, double sided discs are nothing else than 2 normal but slightly thinner DVDs glued at each other with the sides that usually carries the label. But that glue is like poison for the data layers, as it leaks through (chemical reaction) with time and slowly destroys the data and so they become unplayable over the time, even if they still look like new with no scratches at all. That will happen one day with no chance to avoid it, it's a ticking timebomb!

And one could store all the single sided ones safely in for example something like this: https://www.amazon.com/-/en/dp/B075H9M7NC/

 

[Barbara Fan]

I don't know ANY person who doesn't have at least one streaming service.

Well Hello, let me introduce myslef, Im @Barbara Boo! and I have a smart TV but only the basics that come with it, i cant even watch ITV, Channel 4 or 5 again, just BBC iplayer

Dont have any streaming service and dont know that I really want it either so netflix, Sky, amazon prime, disney plus are just names to me
:eck:

 

[Sarah]

Well Hello, let me introduce myslef, Im @Barbara Boo! and I have a smart TV but only the basics that come with it, i cant even watch ITV, Channel 4 or 5 again, just BBC iplayer

Dont have any streaming service and dont know that I really want it either so netflix, Sky, amazon prime, disney plus are just names to me
:eck:

Just out of curiosity is it just not something you’re interested in?

 

[Barbara Fan]

If I want to see anything from ITV, C4 and 5 I watch on computer or lap top

I dont find that I watch a huge amount of TV these days although I love Chateau DIY, and Phil and Kirsty and when I was off work got rather addicted to Four in a bed and Homes Down Under

I dont feel Im missing out too much and If i fancy something I can buy a DVD if available

After Dallas i swore I wouldnt let a TV show dominate, and dictate my life ever again!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Seaviewer]

Dont have any streaming service and dont know that I really want it either so netflix, Sky, amazon prime, disney plus are just names to me

I got Amazon long enough to watch Picard but otherwise Tubi and my local catch-up services are enough for me.