Just a word to those who may be considering buying David Attenborough's programmes on DVD. By all means do so, they're fantastic, but hang on to the receipt until you're sure everything's in working order. There seems to be some problem at the factory that is packaging them for the BBC. A while ago we bought
The Life of Mammals and had to return it because one of the discs was scratched and unplayable. The second copy we got was fine. But I just bought
Life on Earth and when I opened the box, an extra copy of one of the discs fell out! All the discs were there that were supposed to be, but they'd put in two copies of one -- either that, or that was the disc with all the rabbits on it.
These sets were both shrinkwrapped, so the problem must have occurred before they were shipped to the store.
Anyway, since we got our computer I've been all excited about buying DVDs. In addition to the Attenborough discs, we've got
Battleship Potemkin,
Lawrence of Arabia (I've seen the film about six times, but the DVD has loads of extras),
Black Books, and a disc of Pulp videos that is really good except for this weird guitarist that pops up a few times.
How about you guys?