They orginally sold the first season as a bestbuy exclusive with the u.k. version, and now they have the u.s. version with the special features and the mini series after i already bought them for the same price of 50.00.
Not only am i out 80 plus dollars but i have to buy the same episodes again if i want the commentary and new features.
For those who have not already both purchased the mini series and season 1 50.oo is a good deal, since they are practically throwing in the mini series for free in the new boxset.
I bought the new boxset for the original t.v. show, the widescreen movie was'nt included and the interview with john dykstra about special effects were not there either. they must've been with the limited release cylon head. and the reported digital remastering is bull, since what i watched was worse than the vhs tapes or what they used to show on the sci fi network, the only thing that looked cleaned up were the visual effects. But the video quality was very poor on the pilot episodes. have not watched the other episodes yet so don't know if the video quality improves. The film scratches on the old televison reels which they used are very evident, why not go back to the original negative and do a digital clean up after washing the original negative. Or they could do a hand frame by frame ycm restoration. the 5.1 sound sounded somwhat good but was very forced in some cases, and sounded kinda fake. not sure if the show was shot in mono sound or stereo, since it was the seventies to early eighties.