Digimon Limited Edition Collectors Box Set: The Complete First Season | 
 enlarge | Director: Minoru Hosoda
Category: DVD
Buy New: $75.00
Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 16834
Format: Dolby, Ntsc, Dubbed, Limited Collector's Edition, Ca-import
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 6
Running Time: 1080 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: DigiS1
ASIN: B000UUQG2Q
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
Publication Date: 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Contains the complete first season 1 (episodes 1-54) | | • | Limited Edition Box Set | | • | 6 Disc DVD Set |
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Product Description
The story begins with seven young children (Tai, Izzy, Matt, T.K., Sora, Mimi, and Joe) brought together under extraordinary circumstances. During a trip to summer camp, an earthquake envelops them all, and sends them to a realm known as the Digital World. They meet creatures called Digital Monsters, creatures (some friendly, others aren't) that are capable of evolving (or Digivolving) into more powerful forms. They immediately befriend the children, becoming their partners and helping them survive the many perils of the Digital World. However, as their journey continues, they learn that the world they are trapped in isn't a game, and learn of the true reason they were sent there. The Digital World is threatened by a great evil, and the children learn of their true destiny as the Digidestined. In order to suceed, they must realize the true potential of their Digimon and themselves. They also receive different crests of virtue (courage, friendship, sincerity, love, hope, reliability, knowledge, and light) to help in their mission. But, the danger is mounting and the Digidestined's battle to save the Digital World will soon spill into their own....
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Real deal! Finally have it and loving it! January 8, 2009
Ranting Irish (Minnesota)
Its been years since I've seen this show and wanted it on DVD so bad!. All that Canada fake purchasing stuff made me very nervous when i first heard about this set!! My girlfriend bought me it for Christmas and i kid you not it's the real deal! I had one disk that had some issues but other then that the whole show was perfect and the way i remember it! Very worth the buy!!!!
digimon!!! December 26, 2008
Hayley Ivey
Well I'm not sure about the fuzzy animation but the quality was quite sharp with the box set i received. Even with all the rumors of this set being bootlegged it's the best quality bootleg I have ever watched. On the other hand on disc two it stopped for a second and I'm am not sure if it's because of the dvd it self or the people who sent it but so far so good i guess. The limited screen select is all right, the episodes flow into one another and i can read the episode titles fast enough so i know where I'm at. At first I didn't realize that it has a scene select but it turns out it does as long as you want to start at the beginning of an episode. Well, over all I am quite pleased with this buy especially because it took so long to find a Digimon that wasn't low quality or over priced for sale.
 Good and Bad August 10, 2008
Timothy Newman (ID)
So it arrived within a decent time and before the day it said it would arrive and I was SOOOOO happy! BUT! Warning, the cds are a tad difficult to get out and also I paid a lot to get a new set and almost none of the episodes work. They freeze up and glitch and jump to random places and its just weird and annoying and I'm very irritated. For what I got, I should only pay maybe 10 bucks. Everything else is broken. If it wasn't broken I would give a great review. Also the menu for each dvd is pretty plain with no special features or anything. Just play and scene selection. Just thought I'd let you know. Enjoy!
Great Series, Great packaging, Poor presentation July 28, 2008
C. Koukol
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When I first saw this, I bought it without hesitation. I was a huge fan of the digimon series and was waiting a long time for a full season release. All 54 episodes from the first season are present. The outside packaging is eye-appealing as well.
Now onto the bad. My first gripe is the menu screen. I have 2 options: Play movie (movie huh?) or scene selection. If you choose scene selection (which I can only assume is an episode selection), small circles playing short clips from the episode appear. Besides the small clip, you have no other way of knowing if it is the episode you want. They are not titled and are numbered 1-9 on each disc, leaving you only to reference the actual box set to figure out what episode you want to watch. Not very convenient and only a little bit of effort would have solved this.
My second problem is the video quality. Now, I do not know if this happened in translation, or was always there but I just did not notice due to the quality of cable TV, but any moment when there is actual movement on the screen (or when the frame changes), you get a slight fuzzy look at that part. For example, if a character moves his mouth, his mouth becomes fuzzy. Slowing down and freezing this frame by frame, it seems like it meshes the image of the current and previous frame in alternating bars. It really bothered me to know they messed this up. I endured, and got used to it after 9 or so episodes.
I love the series, and I saw that season 2 was recently released. As much as I want the content, I am hesitating to buy season 2 based off of the way season 1 was presented. Buyer beware.
Obvious bootleg, but very high quality June 25, 2008
PC (Missouri)
I was pretty curious about this release, and once I picked it up, realized immediately it was a bootleg. A high quality bootleg, but a bootleg nonetheless.
Whoever made this did a great job. Superb looking box, sort of a clamshell look to it with the discs folding out. Menus feature karaoke versions of Japanese insert music and are a bit awkward to navigate, but fairly professional-looking.
Now, why's it clearly a bootleg? For one, the video footage is of the Japanese version, with all the Digimon analyzer screens and such in Japanese. The episode titles and "To be continued" texts are digitally inserted by whoever made it, since the Japanese version didn't have those at beginning and end of their episodes, at least not on the video footage. Finally, while scenes that were cut from the English version are once again removed here, all digital paint is gone. For example, the scene where Puppetmon and TK play "hide and seek" has the English dialogue with the edited scenes of Puppetmon shooting at things taken out, but his gun still intact in scenes where Saban painted it over. It's pretty awkward, but doesn't detract from the show, at least not for me.
So yeah, that's it. A high quality attempt at Digimon's complete 54-episode first "season". If you can get past the fact that the episodes are simply Japanese footage with English dialogue overlayed (which non-hardcore fans probably wouldn't even notice very much), you have a great release. Hopefully someday we'll have an "official" release of Digimon "seasons", but with Disney just sitting on the rights, I don't see it happening anytime soon.
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