NYPD Blue Season 5
DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:
If you’re looking for special features or fancy packaging or anything beyond a collection of the Season 5 episodes of NYPD Blue, you will be disappointed. I don’t worry about special features–I usually don’t even watch them–so that wasn’t a problem with me. I am just relieved that this season is finally out on DVD, and looks like the others will be coming down the pike. There has sure been a range of quality in how this series’ DVDs have been presented (I have seasons 2–5). Season 2 is fancy, with lots of disks, lots of special features, and a little booklet describing all the shows. Great, no problem. Visually, fine. The audio was somewhat disappointing–it sounds like it is meant to be played on a stereo system (probably alongside a big screen tv) and since I have just a laptop, the sound came across like…hm, kinda like a speaker phone. Distant sounding, and none too loud. Seasons 3 & 4 were both put out on double-sided discs, and I hate them. The visual and audio quality are ok (at least we’re off the speaker phone) but the discs make me nervous to handle, since there are two vulnerable sides (plus it is just irritating trying to read the itty-bitty markings to try to figure out which side is which). So this season, going back to the one-sided discs, is a great improvement over *those*. Quality of video and sound on these are fine (I was concerned after reading some of the early reviews, but my concerns seem to have been unfounded).
I would have appreciated a booklet, like the one in the Season 2 set, that describes the shows a little better (the included descriptions in this set are very difficult to read in some places) but I am mostly just pleased to have the show, to be able to see the stories again–the stories are what the show is all about, after all.
-C. J. Attwood
DVD Wholesale Main Features:
Actors: Dennis Franz, Jimmy Smits, Kim Delaney
Directors: Mark Tinker
Format: Full Screen, NTSC, Color
Language: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Number of discs: 6
Rated: NR-Not Rated
Studio: Shout! Factory
DVD Release Date: January 21, 2014
Run Time: 960 minutes
ASIN: B00FM4S8H6
