Remember watching the series as a teenager on BBC2 and/or Sky every week at 9 pm (before classification was slightly relaxed for broadcasting during the day), collected the VHS (yes VHS) and then the DVD's but Blu-Ray was always gonna be the end game for me. After German broadcasts in HD it seemed Blu-Ray was a step closer and now here it is! The boxset on the whole is excellent with just a few niggles which will be mention in the breakdowns.
Packaging
The nine seasons come in m-lock cases which each season containing 6 discs (season 2 has 7 discs). They are housed in a sturdy outer box with the classic Mulder/Scully walking imagery which has become common place over most of the releases and each season contains imagery which is relevant to the season. There is an additional space which could be used for the revival series or for the feature films (available separately on Blu-Ray in directors cut formats). Two issues with the packaging, firstly space, namely should the revival series spawn a second run you're not gonna have any space left for the Blu-Ray release, so you will either have to abandon the outer box, keep it separately, or for some buy a re-release of the boxset (a la James Bond) that includes the new series and more space. The second is the lack of a booklet per season with information about the episodes. The closest you have it the episode list on the reverse of the case cover, of which you have to remove a Blu-Ray and due to the dark cover and blue m-lock case makes reading a bit of an issue on certain light conditions.
Picture/Audio
As the series was only made in the 90's audio and picture quality are more than decent on the whole, in fact I was surprised by the quality on most episodes. For the release they have gone back to the negatives which has allowed a proper widescreen ratio to be applied to the disc's, as the first few series were in 4:3 ratio as per the standard back then. A few episodes show a bit of fuzziness in certain scenes and there is some grain in the blacks but this appears to be due to degrading of film elements for those scenes, of which they have been mastered as good as they could.
Special Features
The previous DVD release features have been ported to this set in HD.
On the whole a superb release, yes a few niggles but everyone will have there own. If only other cult/classic series got this sort of treatment on Blu-Ray!!!
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