I found this series way after everyone else, bought the lot and watched it every night for AGES .... I never tired of it once.

This one? A treasure, like all of them.

Great series, not so good packaging.
Review date: 2006-01-07 Rating: 8 out of 10

As lots of people, I love Friends, and feel that Series 8, 9 and 10 take on a different tone to previous series. Series 9 and 10 in particular certainly focus more on the relationships, with many storylines coming to a head. Adding to that, the humour becomes if possible even better, and more surreal (if that can be applied to Friends!) then this is an almost perfect series. The only quibble I do have is the box set itself; perhaps I have been spoilt on other box sets such as Frasier, Lord of the rings etc, but the 3 flimsy disc sets of an individual, plain disk, is rather disappointing. That said, its not the box you'll be looking at, but enjoying 24 wonderful episodes.

Be careful - packaging and sound quality not as good
Review date: 2004-11-23 Rating: 6 out of 10

I bought this edition as the price was incredible, and owning all other 8 of the series - also thought it would be good to save some space. Be warned though - the sleeves are in ultra thin cases with no real defined spine to define them, and the paper used is very cheap - looks a bit like a good colour copy from the original. Dipping inside, we now have 4 episodes on each side of the disc which is great - but although picture quality is good enough - the sound has been downgraded from the 448kbps HQ track on the previous sets (4 to a disc with extended versions) to 192kbps of the older DVDs.

Also, the subtitles are enabled by default so I had to turn them off for each new side or disc played.

Altogether disappointing as there was plenty of room for Warners to leave the audio at high quality.

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