Friends: The Complete Series (Repackaged/Blu-ray)

First and most important, the video of this entire series is luxurious, gorgeous. The colors are deep, rich, and beautifully saturated. The quality is fantastic. Second, the video is not in the original full screen 4:3 ratio, but instead in the more common wide screen 16:9 that we are used to now. It is NOT letterboxed but instead reveals for the first time the full video that they captured at the time, apparently thinking forward to the time when 16:9 would be the standard. Some complain by saying that video at the edges are too revealing, but I watched both versions of the disputed scenes and found no problems with them. As for the audio, it is 5.1 throughout. It might have been nice to suppress the audience laugh track, but it did not really detract from the viewing experience. Still, the quality was high throughout the series. The packaging is not cheap even though they aggregated all of the Blu-rays into two sets of 20 discs (plus the bonus disc). Each season is packaged on two Blu-rays, and each disc typically had a couple of commentaries, with the second disc containing extras like gag reals. The bonus disc included more gag reels and some retrospective videos along with interviews on TV shows. Now my confession: I never saw a single episode of this series prior to now. Not one. I got this set so that I might fill in some of the cultural references that I missed out on at the time. I certainly got those, like "taking a break," but also grew to appreciate the show as the years advanced. I thought that the last three years became funnier over time and truly appreciate the jokes and characters, especially the Joey reactions and Phoebe proclamations. Altogether, it was a wonderful series.

Dang, 190$ bones was a lot to drop on a set of a TV show that isn't even my favorite, but i love Matthew Perry and Matt LeBlanc. I didn't own the show yet so i decided to go whole hog on it and i am glad i did. This is not a review of the show but the quality of the 4K release, specifically. To start off, the actual packaging is delightfully slimmed down so two seasons are in each separate case and it is so much better this way to reduce clutter. There is a separate standard blu ray case with two full discs of additional bonus features, and an included booklet with an episode listing for all the discs and chapters for the bonus discs. Now for the real wow part to me-the video quality of the show itself. It does not use DolbyVision, however, they are in HDR and i must say, for a relatively older show, WB clearly gave love to one of their most popular series. The colors and sharpness even in the early seasons are instantly noticeable and gorgeous! Fantastic job, i must say, as a techy kind of guy who has a large physical media collection, this is one of the best looking TV shows out there, even going against something newer like Better Call Saul. The other wonderful part of this set, is that unlike a lot of 4K discs, you can stop this, turn off the player, and come back to it later. It instantly pops up with a "Resume where you left off" button! Yay! No trying to fast forward to where i was before. Great stuff. Ultimately, if you are a Friends fan, this is the best possible set for you but that price is kind of ridiculous, even though it is well made. Also, if you already own the DVDs or Blu Ray releases, this becomes less palatable. It really is a beautiful release though.

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The Quality,condition and appearance where perfect. Shipped and recevied quickly. Great Value.

I love this show & finally I got one.

I am very happy I decided to upgrade my series of Friends from DVD to Blu Ray. The series has never looked better than it does here! All ten seasons have been formatted from the original film negatives to widescreen instead of it's regular 4:3 aspect ratio,and scanned in HD. The results are stunning! There are details I had never even noticed before in the apartment and various sets. Colors pop and are very vibrant, textures are very noticeable, and clarity is very strong! I never thought the DVD's looked that great to begin with. The picture was a bit murky and washed out on all the seasons in my opinion. On the Blu Ray release, that is no longer the case. It's almost like watching the series for the very first time! The Audio is 5.1 Dolby Digital and all the episodes sound great. Each season contains the bonus features ported over from the DVD releases, plus a bonus disc of all new bonus features and a nice book that serves as an episode guide for the entire series. The only downside to this set for hardcore fans, is that it does not contain the extended versions of certain episodes like the DVD releases did. Bonus features on season 7 on the blu set has the extended versions for four episodes that season, but that is the only season on the blu set that has the extended versions. For me that doesn't really matter because I have them on the DVD 's and after watching the Blu Ray set, I will probably never look at the DVD's again. This will always be my go to because the show looks so amazing in HD and widescreen. I can't reccomend this set enough for fans of the show who want to have this great series in their collection!

This Review is for Friends Complete Series in 4K: Friends Complete Series in 4K is pretty good, but for some strange reason my set was missing Disc 3 of Season 9! There were actually two copies of Disc 2 of Season 9 and both had the episodes that one would expect with Disc 2 on them! My other complaint was that the holders for the discs aren't very good, and it was hard to solidly put the discs back into the the disc holders! In fact many of the discs were loose inside the disc holders, because the center holders don't grip the center of the discs strong enough that they keep on becoming loose! Other than that for the most part the colors and sound of each episode are very good! I had the complete Blu-ray series, but I never opened it up so I couldn't make a proper comparison of the 4K versus the Blu-rays, as I ended up giving the Blu-rays away as a gift after upgrading to the 4K complete series. The oddest thing I found with the restoration and up-conversion of the video portion of the 4K's is typically as a separation between each act and the start of each disc are images of the city of New York or the supposed exterior of the buildings where the Friends live. These openings appear not to be up-converted to 4K resolution, appearing to be only 480p at best. Why Warner Bros. didn't do a complete restoration of these parts of each episode confounds me! I also found in some of the earliest seasons including the Pilot episode that some of the background was more in focus than the actual Friends' characters. There's one scene where an ornate green metal support of Central Perk is more in focus than the Friends' characters sitting on the couch, which is the foreground of the scene, not the background, which this green pole is! I found this very odd! I will have to go back to the original complete series DVD's to see if the same problem exists some day... One thing I have to compliment Warner Bros. is the placement of each tab for each act, the opening title sequence and the end. One can quickly tab to the beginning of each title sequence, many of which varied within a season, the end of the title sequence, between both acts and the end sequence. The tabs were perfectly setup! Sometimes I have found the tabs of other shows arranged in weird places like eight minute into an episode instead of right after the title sequence, which cause a person to either to fast forward from the beginning to get to the end of the title sequence of rewind even further back from the first tab. Other than that, as I previously wrote the colors and audio are very good and worth the upgrade to 4K in my opinion despite the few shortcomings I found with the disc holders and having two copies of Disc 2 from Season 9! PS. As of writing this I've not watched the Blu-ray disc with the Special Features...

¡La mejor forma de asegurarse de que Chandler, Joey, Monica, Rachel, Phoebe y Ross siempre estén ahí cuando los necesites! No hay mucho más que decir: es mi serie favorita de todos los tiempos. Tener la colección completa en Blu-ray me da la tranquilidad de que, si algún día dejan de transmitirla en plataformas como Netflix o HBO Max, siempre la tendré a mano para verla una y otra vez. La calidad de imagen es excelente, y además trae unos extras muy 'cool' que cualquier seguidor de la serie va a disfrutar al máximo. Es una compra obligatoria para tener la colección completa en casa.

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フレンズ大好きなのでいつでも見れるようにブルーレイ買いました。 ただ、日本語字幕が出ないんですが仕様でしょうか？他の方のレビューで日本語字幕があると見ましたが、英語や中国語などの字幕はありますが日本語が出てきません。機器の設定でしょうか？英語字幕で見てますが、できれば日本語字幕で見たいです。

海外のドラマにハマっているので、ブルーレイは収納にもコンパクトに収まり、画質がいいので気に入っています。

英語も日本語も字幕あり。

Excelente! Aunque la calidad de imagen no es tan buena, si es la version original con todos los subtitulos y audios para escoger. Me llego bien empaquetada aunque por alguna razon los discos estaban un poco humedos como sudados como si ya tuvieran tiempo guardados en alguna bodega. Pero limpiandolos se quitan facilmente.