Hill Street Blues The Complete Series

DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:

The Hill Street Blues show series itself is great, which is why I was glad to find a box set to purchase as a gift for a fan. The disk packaging and box looks good. Unfortunately, many of the disks have problems. The playback stalls, skips or freezes in spots. Some of the disks affected have no visible marks on the surface. A few have visible scratches, and at least one has a small chip. The packaging was intact and sealed, and the disks all in place in their cases, so it does not appear to be transit damage. So far about a third of the disks are affected. Otherwise the disk playback looks okay.- Vaanth

If you are old enough to have enjoyed HSB when it aired on TV, you will enjoy revisiting it in this collection. The DVD’s all work and have good picture definition and sound. I can’t get my 19 year old daughter to watch it, but my wife and I are enjoying seeing it all again, and there is something to be said for watching a 7 year series in the course of a month or so of evening viewings. We have discovered all kinds of plot twists and characters we were not consciously aware of when it aired on tv.- Farmer Jud

Great series but a very flawed release. The series itself is top notch and it is good to see it again. But this release is very flawed. While the video quality is very good, the audio is poor. It sounds a bit “muddy” and if you raise the volume sufficiently to hear the dialogue clearly, the moment you hit an action scene with gunfire, sirens, screeching tires, etc., they come through at a very elevated volume that will deafen you and make your ears “bleed”. That sends you scrambling for your control to crank the volume back down, but then the character’s dialogue is “muddy” again and hard to understand until you crank the volume back up a bit.
This release also seems to discriminate against the hearing impaired because it does NOT give you the option for English subtitles.
While I am glad to finally have the complete series, I am disappointed at the poor audio quality and the lack of consideration for the hearing impaired with no subtitles option available. This makes it difficult for other family members to enjoy this great series.-Gryphon

DVD Wholesale Main Features:

Actors: Daniel J. Travanti, Taurean Blacque, Bruce Weitz, Joe Spano, Kiel Martin
Directors: Gregory Hoblit
Format: Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles for the Hearing Impaired: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Number of discs: 34
Rated: NR-Not Rated
Studio: Shout! Factory
DVD Release Date: April 29, 2014
Run Time: 6900 minutes
ASIN: B00GSTHCHQ