Official: Babylon 5 coming to Blu-ray in December

[Looney]

Yes THE GATHERING was available on VHS through Columbia House (Original Cut) and the retail release (Special Edition Cut). And as I've said before, I too was a bit late to the show having only seen bits and pieces of Season One before diving in head first with Season Two and never looking back.

 

[LateArrival]

Thanks for the update. I purchased (and gave away) the Season 1 retail set, which would have been SE, and my first "successful" purchase of the 1993 pilot was the Columbia House release on good old VHS. Then stumbled over the German DVD and the Turkish "Toplanti" release, which is the German version with different wording on the cover.
...plus there is the De Agostini (1993 pilot) version on DVD, which apparently is only ever sold on the UK's Ebay site by sellers who never ship to the US.

 

[Looney]

And speaking of shipping to the U.S., I have a question for all of our overseas friends. If any of you know can you tell me if the price of shipping items to the U.S. has gone up for you in recent months? I am curious because I have made purchases of different 4K Ultra-HD and Blu-Ray Discs from Amazon U.K. and Amazon.de (Germany) in the past. I was looking around the other day and I noticed everything I saw now had shipping prices. This was not something I had seen in the past. Just trying to figure out if costs have gone up or if maybe there was a glitch somewhere? Really hope it is a glitch. Most of the prices were only $7.99 to $8.99, but that is on top of items that are often already $30.00.

 

[Springer]

And speaking of shipping to the U.S., I have a question for all of our overseas friends. If any of you know can you tell me if the price of shipping items to the U.S. has gone up for you in recent months? I am curious because I have made purchases of different 4K Ultra-HD and Blu-Ray Discs from Amazon U.K. and Amazon.de (Germany) in the past. I was looking around the other day and I noticed everything I saw now had shipping prices. This was not something I had seen in the past. Just trying to figure out if costs have gone up or if maybe there was a glitch somewhere? Really hope it is a glitch. Most of the prices were only $7.99 to $8.99, but that is on top of items that are often already $30.00.

The only thing I've shipped to the US in recent years was to your good self; I can't remember exactly how much it cost but $8 sounds about right. Though prices for postage do keep going up in the UK, so that might have something to do with any price increase you're seeing.

Going the other way I've found prices to be sky high to the point I can't really import things anymore. I used to buy special edition soundtrack CDs from the US, but the postage got as high as the CDs themselves. Same for B5Books.

Postage everywhere is just super-crazy now, it seems.

 

[Looney]

Yes if I were to ship something to you it would be ridiculous. And don't think there is not a conspiracy behind that.

 

[Looney]

Credit to Nottenst for pointing this out over on JMSNEWS

SALE Babylon 5 Complete Series Blu-Ray

Get it while it's hot.

 

[Looney]

That's NO JOKE everyone... Only 8 Left in stock at that price.

I also was grabbing items and I noticed it is currently #74 on the Amazon Best Seller list for the Movie and TV Shows category - so seriously get it. It is "hot" and almost gone!!!!!

(I'm sure it will be on sale again at some point, but this is a great deal.)

 

[Crash]

It seems like they're playing some funnyness with the regions.
I think I got mine for about £40-something, months ago.

There's not that much difference between the £ and the $.

I got mine from rarewaves, who were a bit cheaper. I'm not sure whether they're a particularly great company, but it doesn't take much to beat amazon.

 

[LateArrival]

It seems like they're playing some funnyness with the regions.
I think I got mine for about £40-something, months ago.

There's not that much difference between the £ and the $.

I got mine from rarewaves, who were a bit cheaper. I'm not sure whether they're a particularly great company, but it doesn't take much to beat amazon.

It's Thursday the 18th, so guess the sale is over? Price for the Amazon/US version is now $69.99/US, but wasn't it originally selling for around 100 when it was first released?

Seen the same item listed on different platforms from the same seller and Amazon/Ebay price is usually higher since those sites take a cut of the proceeds. Could log into one's Amazon account on different domains (Ex: Amazon.com vs Amazon.co.uk, etc) and order things, but international shipping is always something to consider. Have been times where something from the UK was cheaper to purchase via Amazon.uk - even with shipping - than to buy it via Amazon.com as an "import".

But still need those DVDs since only the DVDs have bonus features and commentaries.