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The Sopranos - The Complete Seasons 1 - 5 & Season 6, Part 1 (6-Pack)

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First, with DVDs you should be very careful of third party or eBay sellers of box sets like this for heavily discounted prices. Some of them are legitimate, but some of them are Chinese knockoffs with DVD9 discs cut down to DVD5 in non-retail packaging. That means they are illegal copies and the quality and completeness of the content (like special features) are lacking. It may be their website and you may have protection from Amazon after the fact, but don't mistake the third-party sellers with buying directly from Amazon.com and don't think that they have the capability to thoroughly screen these sellers before they get on the site. Again, I'm not talking about everyone, just look at the vendor reviews and ask some specific questions and get an answer before you buy.

Second, you might want to wait on this one. The model with Six Feet Under was to offer a complete series package consisting of the individual series sets after the end for $379 list (although this is always discounted). About a year later they came out with a Gift set with special packaging with additional sound track CDs (this could be a good one for the Sopranos with their music) for $279 list and readily available for $200.

The Sopranos had one additional long season so it will probably be more but that set might be the one to have. It also might be more fun to revisit the complete series a little more in the future.

Just my 2 cents.

Make sure you email the seller first. If they are all seasons in one box they are definately bootlegg copies. If they say "region free" I checked and HBO has only made Soprano's DVD for Region 1. Also, HBO states they have never issued the box set of all DVD in one box. They are good buy if your not too worried about quality. But don't pay anymore than $100 for the set, they usually only cost $25 - $50. There are some buyers selling them for around $90.

First off, let me just say that I love each and every season of the Sopranos. Along with "Goodfellas", it is just about the cleverest piece of entertainment ever done involving the mob. Tony Soprano is the definitive Rennaissance mobster. He ponders the contents of "Sun-Tzu: The Art of War", yet he easily flies into a rage and beats a man to death with a frying pan over the death of a horse. Season four is my least favorite season because it was too slow and just too focused on Tony and Carmella's marriage. However, even that season I would give at least four stars. That being said, why would you purchase such an overpriced collection when we are nine episodes shy of the entire series being over? You know that if HBO made a complete gift set for "Six Feet Under" that this show is also going to get the royal treatment, probably very shortly after part two of season six airs. Thus, I would advise waiting.

Too bad HBO will take another year at least to release the upcoming season 6- part 2 on DVD, then theyll wait another year..say Christmas '08 to release the whole box set and prolly charge us at least $300-$400 for it.I just got this set and its great, why would I wait for 2 more years for another box set and then pay a ridiculously high price.Get this while you can, it prolly wont be around very long!

It seems that either HBO or Amazon are really shaking the Sopranos fans down with this set? I live in New Zealand and have been working my through individual seasons that my local bookstore is selling for $39.95 NZD each. That works out as getting at least seasons 1 - 5 (haven't seen season 6 pt 1 for sale yet) for $150 USD?

Six of the 24 discs did not play properly. Some seasons did not have subtitles and the subtitiles for Season 6 did not match the script. The order was late in arriving and three times the seller, Angel Express, said that they were sending replacemnt discs but didn't. I finally reported these matters to Amazon and they issued a full refund.

This item it is NOT an US version release (it is a fake because the audio is in english only without subtitles) Read the Amazon's description for each season and you will verify that this item is not an US version relase.
I visited the Best Buy site to know the details of each US release Season.
Season 1: Language E/S
Season 2 to 5: Language E/S/F. Season 6, Part 1 and 2, Language E/S
Subtitles: Season 1,4,5 and 6(P.1,2): E/S/F; Season 2: E; Season 3:

A great series. I'd buy it again.

There's no gettin out.

The very best package of DVD's I have ever recieved. Thank you