Granted, some of those DVDs fix errors from the TimeLife set, but all Ghostheads would have preferred to get something that was still unreleased on physical media, instead of something we already got on DVD back in 2008. Instead, we got 10 volumes of assorted The Real Ghostbusters episodes in 20. It also means that Sony has had the entire series digitized for over three YEARS now, which makes it extremely easy (pun intended) to author them onto some DVDs, and yet Sony has purposely chose not to do a DVD release. While that's nice, it's NOT what the fans had been wanting for the past nearly 20 years. Fans could pay a monthly fee to Hulu to "rent" all 40 episodes for as long Hulu's agreement with Sony allows them to retain the series. On March 1, 2016, Sony would finally release the entire series. Suffice it to say, fans who wanted to own a copy of the ENTIRE series were slime out of luck. uses the NTSC format), they would still be missing the remaining 27 episodes. is region 1), and had a way to play the PAL-formated video (the U.S. customer imported the set, removed the region-coding (they were coded for regions 2 and 4, while the U.S. It should come as no surprise that even this release - labelled "The Complete First Season" in Region 2 and "Season One, Volume One" in Region 4 - was bungled, as no matter the name, it was only the first 13 episodes on two discs, and not the entire series of 40 episodes. Things were a little better overseas where the series finally got a DVD release in 2009 in the United Kingdom, France, Australia (and possibly other countries in that area of the world). Since Sony never released them in that box to stores, fans such as myself and the late, great Doreen Mulman (who informed me of it) had to call Sony to get this box as some/most/all tapes were just taped/shrinkwrapped together. If that wasn't enough to show how little Sony thought of the series, these tapes were supposed to come packaged in a caution-striped "gift box/3-pack" slipcase (on left in photo above). (SLP/EP speed tapes were usually the domain of bargain bin budget companies, such as Goodtimes Home Video and Kid Klassics.) This meant that not only was the video quality greatly reduced, but customers had to deal with adjusting the tracking on their VCRs. To add insult to injury, these three tapes, containing a mere two episodes each, were duplicated in the piss-poor SLP/EP speed, instead of the high-quality (and industry standard) SP speed. (Photo by Paul Rudoff from his collection)
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