Friends: The Complete Series

UPDATE: Jan 2016 Cracked the code on the issue about some episodes being "2 min long clips." In the episode menu of every disk, there is a coffee mug bullet point be each episode listed. If you accidentally click on the mug ((instead of the title)) to select the episode you wish to watch, you will instead be shown a brief clip from the episode. To be clear, click coffee mug bullet point icon thingy for clips. Click title of the episode to view the episode. Problem solved!!!!! Just received the DVD set in the mail this week! I cannot yet confirm that all disks play well. I can, however say that all 40 disks arrived intact. I've flipped through and checked each one to insure none were missing or duplicated. Initial Impression: The box arrived in perfect condition (it's the blue and white box edition). I had no damage to the cardboard box that holds all of the DVD cases what-so-ever. Each Season is in its own respective DVD case within the box. That's a total of 10 cases. Features of note: I believe each season (not episode necessarily) has an optional voice over feature with commentary from the 3 writers of the show offering insight and tid-bits about the show. Upon opening the box set, my husband and I (both big fans) noticed this feature and decided to listen to the commentary offered on disc one. It was actually very interesting! The last disk of each season has a friend's trivia feature built into the menu. We haven't gotten to experience this but I think it's a cool idea and I like that it is built into the disk content rather than a book (which could get damaged) that is separate from the disks. I think the red box set was like that. Just more stuff to have around. Overall, it's a very clean looking set! We're working on becoming more minimalistic and had planned to scan the disks into hard drive storage eliminating the need for the physical set BUT the set is such a nice package! It's a show piece. I want this baby out in the open! It makes me smile and gives me a warm fuzzy feeling that makes me think I'm going to hold onto it in its entirety. Ah, the joy of friends! Once this arrives at your home, you will instantly know what I mean! If you know a superfan that doesn't own the series or maybe they could just use a new, consolidated set, this makes an terrific gift! I wish we new someone that's as big of fans as we are yet doesn't already own the full series that we could buy this for. We purchased this as a Christmas gift to each other because it's always nice to have a this bubbly, sunny show. Rainy day? Bad day? Break out Friends and bring on the laughs! This is a quality set. Nothing bootleg about it. I can't get over the qualify for the price. I bet this was around $250 when the show initially ended. One last point I want to make....yes, you can watch Friends on Netflix now. We watched 4 or 5 seasons through Netflix. The series as offered on Netflix is not complete. It is the edited for TV version which is shortened for commercial time frames (which is how the show was originally aired.) A lot of very funny content and great lines are extracted throughout each episode in these shortened versions. THIS SET, however, offers the uncut version of the show which is also what was offered on on the original DVDs of the seasons which were available for individual purchase. As mentioned by others, the "blue-ray" isn't true blue-ray but perhaps a higher contrast "enhanced" version. The blue-ray is also the cut version of the show. It wasn't worth it to me and I chose to go with the DVD version. I'm very happy with my purchase. I'm impressed with the presentation of the set and it exceeds my expectations. If I experience issues with the playing quality of the disks that others have described, I will update this review. So far, everything is perfect! I don't have any criticisms at all!

I remember back in 2006 or so seeing the box set on the shelf at the store for like $350 and telling my mom how badly I wanted it. She kept telling me to wait until the price went down and I kept my eye on it for months. Eventually I lost interest and moved on. Ten years later and I've finally purchased the entire series on DVD! I'm glad she made me wait, I saved a lot of money, hahah. The box set is great. I know with large whole series like this some people have defective discs, so I am carefully watching each DVD to check. So far all the DVDs are fine, I checked the discs themselves and saw no scratches and all the numbers are right. I'm mid-season 2 in watching and so far everything is great. The packaging itself is really nice and sturdy. I really like the individual seasons too because you can take one case with you and it just looks like if you bought the stand alone season. The menus are cool, the special features are cool. Unless one of the discs is defective and I haven't found it yet (I'll update this if and when I do), I give it all an A+. Totally worth the $75ish for the whole series.

It’s amazing to watch such a great series!

I was afraid of purchasing this collection (The White Box) during Cyber Monday because of the past reviews about faulty DVDs, etc. Well, my collection of discs were perfect and there wasn't any problem at all. Something important to notice is that I'm talking about the new White Box released in 2013 and not the Red one (2006). That Red Box had some problems according to the reviews posted some years ago. Sadly, The White Box's amazon page appears as a New Item of the Red Box DVDs and this has made that comments and reviews are mixed in the White Box product page. So pay attention to the details if you want to get the right product here. The White Box contains 10 separate boxes for every season with 4 discs per season. There's no a 60-page booklet at all as the previous release and this collection doesn't include the 2 music CD's with the soundtrack. However, the price is worth it for remembering good times. By the way, all episodes are presented in full-screen format and the quality is acceptable taking into consideration that this tv show was produced a long time ago. If you want high quality,however, think about purchasing the Blue-Ray collection.

Entertaining series.

Regarding the April 16, 2013 Complete Series Edition: Not only did my box show up a day early, there is nary a scratch nor dent to be found. The collectors box is in perfect condition, as are each of the cases for each series. I have only seen the first season so far, but every disc has played perfectly, with excellent video and audio. If I come across problems with later seasons, I'll update this review. But if you don't see an update, assume they, too, were perfect. Additionally, if you are wondering, the cases for the seasons are normal dvd cases, not sleeves. It looks like the collectors box merely holds the same cases you would purchase if you bought each season separately. What a great show, and a great buy. I highly recommend this version.

I bought this for my wife for Christmas and I am very impressed with the design and quality of the box set. Each season comes in its own plastic case and they all fit nicely in the larger box. She loves the show and it's one of the better complete series boxed sets I have seen.

フレンズは本当によく出来たドラマで、何度見ても、どの話も面白い！ 最初はおもしろくない、という人もいますが、 私は最初から最後までおもしろく、 これだけ回数があっても飽きないし、キャラクターが個性的で 声を上げて笑ってしまいます。 特別有名人ゲストも多数出ていてびっくりしますよ！ 吹き替えもすごくよく出来ていて、英語のギャグもほぼ 日本語のギャグに置き換えてあるので、十分笑えます。 （もちろん限界はあるので、英語と日本語字幕の方も合わせて見ることを おススメします） 英語も分かりやすいのできっとリスニング練習にもなるはず。 もう4,5回見ているので、コンプリートボックスを買った意味は十分に ありました！ このお値段で本当にお得！

Super Serie.

La box set es la foto que aparece en la publicación... es una caja con que incluye las 10 temporadas vienen por separado cada una en una caja diferente, iguales a las que salieron cuando salieron por primera vez las temporadas pero mas delgadas... cada caja trae 4 discos. En fin lo mejor es que esta edición como los DVDs originales incluyen los episodios extendidos, anteriormente compre la edición de blu ray pero tuve que devolverla ya que solo incluye los episodios que salieron por television y que no están completos (2 o 3 minutos menos por episodio)

最近Dlifeで見てはまり、購入しました。 Blue-rayは扱った事が無かったので（うちのレコーダーで映るか心配だったので）、 無難にDVDを選びましたが、まず画質は劣ります。 また音声に関して急に小さくなったりします。 そして英語の勉強もかねて見ていますが、英語字幕が結構省略されていたりします。 同じ単語でも場面によってついてたりついてなかったりマチマチです。 といっても他の海外のDVDをほとんど見た事が無いので字幕についてはこんなものなのかもしれません。 それでも内容は最高です。 何度見ても笑えます。 これで思う存分見れます。