In which we are bargain hunting...

[jesshartley]

Okay, so Babylon 5 (the entire 5 season series) won the "what should we watch next" award, by virtue of popularity, completeness (it's already out on DVD) and interest (we've caught some of it here and there and liked it a great deal.)

Now comes the shopping.

The best price I'm finding for it is in the mid 60$ range, unless I buy some sort of foreign knock off, which I'm not really interested in doing. Eventually we'd like to buy the whole 5 season series, but we're definately interested in buying the first series immediately, as we just watched the last episode of Firefly (sigh).

Anyone have any hot tips on finding new or used copies of the first (or all five) season? Super bargain DVD sites? Stores with great sales? Friends looking to make some extra money clearing out theirs?

Let us know.

Comments

[kirbyk.livejournal.com]

This is the lowest price I've seen them at: http://www.dvdplayground.com/index.asp

Still expensive!

It'd probably be hard to beat joining Netflix and renting the disks. It's not really that cost-effective for movies you can easily get at your local video store, but it's great for the $300+ series that you can't easily rent elsewhere. (Including things like Anime.) Also great for non-Hollywood films.

[keridwen.livejournal.com]

Where in the heck are you finding the whole series for around $60? The best I've ever seen for *one season* was at least $45, and that was used.

[jesshartley.livejournal.com]

No, no, no, that's what I meant! The first season...

I just meant that we're also interested in the possiblity of picking up the whole thing if that were become the best way to do it financially.

[keridwen.livejournal.com]

Oh! I get it now.

Damn...I was hoping that you'd managed to find some amazingly cheap site that I could take advantage of...

[winnett.livejournal.com]

Oh yea! Bab5 ROCKS!!!!!

The middle three seasons being the most amazing set of TV you will ever watch.

Sorry, no tips on DVD buying, though that is a series I would like to own. I would probably just get them off Netflix.

[jesshartley.livejournal.com]

How does NetFlix work with boxed set kind of things? They've got the first season, as a six disk set...do they send them to us one at a time? if they send more than one at a atime, does it count for more than one "movie" out of our three (if we have the three movies out at a time program?)

If we, say, order three movies, and they send them to us, can we send one back and keep the others for another bit, and rotate another one in as long as we don't hace more than 3 out at a time?

Because, for like the first season, it will take us about a month of dinners to watch all 22 episodes, but we'd like to be able to rotate other movies in and around them, so pat can watch things on evenings/weekends.

[silverhawc.livejournal.com]

That's how I understand it talking to people on the program.

Excellent choice btw. Both lasting and worth the time invested.

[winnett.livejournal.com]

The typical netflix account is 3 dvds, unlimited. So they send you the firest three disks, you watch one and mail it back, moving onto the second. Well after they receive the first one they mail you the fourth. Escentially you have three disks, not three 'movies'. So yea, three disks of Bab5 or any other series would fill up your three slots.

You can send them back at any rate you want to. You can keep two for a while, only returning one of your disks to be replaced.

So yep, it works how you are assuming. :) I really like it. They have a pretty nice anime collection too! :)

[jediskelton.livejournal.com]

Try www.pricegrabber.com. It checks several sites/companies and gives you a list to compare prices (including S/H). I did a search for Babylon5 on it for you and here are the results.

Good hunting!

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

How did I forget to recommend that to you? Perhaps because I assume I'm the only person in the world who hasn't seen it yet. Personally, I'm watching the used stuff on Amazon with half an eye.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

PS: If you go with one of those ultra cheap Asian editions, tell me what you think? I'm tempted but not yet tempted enough. (:

[mythdude.livejournal.com]

Babylon 5 rox hardcore. \nn/

Go Babylon 5! ^_^

[heartlesswench.livejournal.com]

You also might ask wayfarer_atlas if he could help out here. He has the whole series.

[eros-wind.livejournal.com]

a suggestion I have for watching bab5 on dvd...watch the whole season 1-5, then watch season 1 all over again. You get to see with greater clarity how they scripted out the whole story before they even shot the first take.

[jesshartley.livejournal.com]

And you know how much I love that. :)

[silverhawc.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's a little erie actually.
"Hey he came right out and told us at the begining!"
Covers several things...

[mlleblack.livejournal.com]

Serinity the MOVIE... is out in september... Just saw a new preview for it... I LUV Firefly