The Best of Rocko's Modern Life Volume 3 (2 Disc set)
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DVD Reviews of The Best of Rocko's Modern Life Volume 3 (2 Disc set)
DVD Review: How does Amazon justify asking so much for so little?
Summary: 1 Stars
Rocko's Modern Life is one of my favorite cartoons from my childhood, it's strange, crude, clever, and absolutely hilarious.....and I would love to own the show on DVD, but I refuse to pay so much for sets that contain such little content. Right now we are in a golden age of TV on DVD, where you can buy full season sets of just about any show at very reasonable prices, so for Amazon charge $25 each for what amounts to only six full episodes worth of content is laughable. Also, what really perplexes me is that they are only doing this with the Rocko's Modern Life sets, not any of the other Nickelodeon "Burn on Demand" sets that they've released over the last year.
Let's use Hey Arnold! as an example:
Amazon is currently charging $35.99 for the complete first season of the show, and what does that get you? Well, that gets you all 20 episodes of the show's first season on four discs. That's right, you get more than 3x the amount of episodes for only ten dollars more than a single Rocko's Modern Life set. This proves that Amazon is willing to take a more reasonable approach to the pricing of these sets (similar examples could be used for Doug and Rugrats) yet they choose to adhere to charging such a ridiculous price for Rocko's Modern Life. Not only does this give the fans less content for more money, it also affects how long it takes for these sets to become available. Over the course of just over a year Amazon was able to release all 5 seasons (100 episodes) of Hey Arnold!, and in the same time frame only a season and a half of Rocko's Modern Life (roughly 18 episodes) has been released, and at the current pace of about 6 episodes per set it will take another 5 sets to finally get the entire series on DVD.
Until Amazon either lowers to prices of the current sets (I think $9.99 is more than fair for 6 lousy episodes of a TV show, even though iTunes is currently selling the same set for $5.99) or re-releases these with more episodes per set at a reasonable price, I will refuse to purchase these DVDs.
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