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Another 24 episodes of "Northern Exposure" and the last
of the seasons featuring Rob Morrow. As with all other Universal
titles here there is a significant amount of replaced music.
While there were certainly some great episodes during season
five the show began a long slow march towards the ocean
and jumped the shark with the next season. Still, there
was plenty of fun during the fifth season for fans of the
show. ***
Universal is so inconsistent. First they saddle fans
with the horrible dual sided dual layered discs that they
had so many manufacturing snafus with and to add insult
to injury they replaced music and charged fans that purchased
the first season set (which wasn't even a partial season)
the same full price as later sets. Clearly Universal has
problems treating their customer's right on a regular basis.
Perhaps someone should send the head of Universal's home
video TV division over to Warner Home Video to see how it's
done right. ---
Image & Sound:
Why the rant? Universal has squeezed five episodes per
disc on some of these discs impacting the overall quality
of the images and sound. Why Universal always seems to take
the cheap way out. While I'm all for making a profit I'm
not interested in it if it's at the expense of the consumers
that Universal so brazenly disregards with many of their
releases. They have to be the worst when it comes to home
video of the major studios. ***
All of that said the images are occasionally soft and,
yes, the image quality does suffer by all the additional
episodes squeezed onto a single disc. Audio sounds fine
but there are artifacts that crop up all over the place
with this set. ---
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