{"id":7680,"date":"2005-01-18T21:36:32","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T04:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/01\/18\/a-better-farscape-price-point.html"},"modified":"2005-01-18T21:36:32","modified_gmt":"2005-01-19T04:36:32","slug":"a_better_farsca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/18\/a_better_farsca.html","title":{"rendered":"A better <em>Farscape <\/em>price point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/B0002S65LI.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\"  class=\"right\" border=0 \/>While the previously collected <em>Farscape<\/em> Season 1 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00006G8ES?&#038;tag=davedoesthebl-20\">22 eps<\/a>) will set you back $120 at Amazon, and the old partial season sets (e.g., <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000068TOM?&#038;tag=davedoesthebl-20\">4-5 eps<\/a>) used to cost you $36, or even just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0000541X6?&#038;tag=davedoesthebl-20\">two eps<\/a> for $22, the new &#8220;Starburst Edition&#8221; sets &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0002S65LI?&#038;tag=davedoesthebl-20\">7 eps a pop<\/a> &#8212; will  now also only set you back only $22.  Muuuuuuch better.<\/p>\n<p>The pricing of TV episode DVDs has been all over the map, but we might be beginning to see some sanity getting into the process.  At least as far as <em>Farscape<\/em> goes.  Good news for everyone, except the folks who already bought these &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the previously collected Farscape Season 1 (22 eps) will set you back $120 at Amazon, and the old partial season sets (e.g., 4-5 eps) used to cost you $36,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2797,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/09\/20\/farscape_news.html","url_meta":{"origin":7680,"position":0},"title":"Farscape news","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Sep-02 8:31am","format":false,"excerpt":"Over at Farscape World, David Kemper and Richard Manning held a chat last night on the cancellation and what lies ahead. 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