Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda: The Complete Collection

I really enjoyed this show when it aired weekly back in the early 2000s, which is why I bought the Blu-ray set for the entire series run, seasons 1-5. For that reason alone I am pleased with the purchase.But why did "they" produce this set in Blu-ray? According to my player's info panel, the video is presented in 480i format, the same as broadcast television when the series was originally aired. I am NOT happy with spending more than the regular DVD set would have cost and getting NOTHING in return.My preamp-processor also shows mixed readings for audio. Sometimes I get Dolby Surround, sometimes not. In fact, during season 3 (which I am currently viewing) I get no sound from my front left speaker at all. Seems as if the dubs over time have suffered so much that channels drop out completely. Even when get sound from each of the 3 front channels, it never rises to the level of "quality" surround sound. The manufacturer should have just recorded it in mono, and TOLD the potential buyer. If I'm being honest this entire set looks like someone played the original episodes on a simple video recording setup and dubbed the Blu-rays from that system.The only pro I can find for this set is ANDROMEDA was one of my favorite scifi shows and now I have the complete series. End of pros.

I love Andromeda, and am very happy to finally have the entire series on Blu-ray. Overall, this is a really solid collection, although there are a few minor issues to talk about. The selection menus on the Blu-rays are a little buggy and will occasionally malfunction, preventing you from making a selection, but popping the disc out and back in always seems to correct this. There's also no support for resume-playback, so if you walk away long enough for your Blu-ray player to fall asleep, you'll have to start the episode over from the beginning and fast-forward back to where you left off. But these are really just minor gripes. The most important things are all here; all of the episodes intact, with great video and audio quality. The cases containing the episodes are also of a nice quality, and the box containing the entire set is also of a decent design. So despite any minor issues I've had with this collection, I am still very happy I bought it.

What I dislike is that not all of the episodes are all that great. Over-all, most are good, some just okay with a few bad ones. But enough fantastic ones to make up for all the rest. Trance Gemini is and was my favorite character in the series. I think the story line and stories are some of the best ever written Syfi to date.I'm a really a super fan of all the Star Trek series made for T.V. from Captain Kirk, Captain Janeway to Star Trek: Enterprise being the best of them all. But I feel Andromeda was Roddenberry's best work.

I never found a reliable review, so here it goes. I have a 65" plasma that has been calibrated by THX. The outer box is rather flimsy, but the disc boxes are solid. They have swing trays, which I like. None of my discs were lose. On loading the pilot, I found the menus looked nice and loaded quickly. The picture was pleasing. The upscaled and cropped SD CGI effects hold up better here than they do with Babylon 5. I noticed a few jagged edges, but not frequently, and it held up really well in later seasons. Colors were tight and accurate. Plenty of detail. A sampling of other season 1 and 2 episodes were similar. Then I loaded a couple episodes from season 3, and was rather disappointed. The picture was rather flat and soft. Similar, but less soft was season 4. I didn't sample season 5.Then I loaded up my DVDs. These were 4:3 season sets, not the Slipstream collection. The season 1 DVD case was terrible, by the way, with an atrocious way to hold the discs, which almost invariably leads to lose discs and scratching. It has a butterfly thing on each side, which you compress, then release. So there is an upgrade to the packaging from what I had before. But I didn't notice a significant difference in overall picture quality. The main differences are that the blu ray offers all episodes in 16:9, where most are 4:3 on DVD, and the colors were a bit different. Not better or worse, just different. I suspect the blu rays are upscaled from PAL format, which has about 25% more resolution than (American) NTSC. Given they had to zoom in about 30% to provide the 16:9 picture, that would explain why the quality is similar while zoomed, as well as the slightly different color space.So overall, the packaging is better, and it comes in 16:9 from start to finish, but there is unfortunately no otherwise significant upgrade in picture quality from the DVDs.

I love this series. Started watching because A. Kevin Sorbo who before this was Hurcules..... B. Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda.... had to be good right ? C. A living ship... The Andromeda.... with the Superfine Lexa Doig as Andromeda Ascendant, Laura Bertram ( Loved the Trance Gemini Character she portrayed),Lisa Ryder as Beka Valentine and later Brandy Ledford as Doyle. Not only were the ladies beautiful, they were all bad asses, yes even Trance.....Now for the guys. Just really like Kevin Sorbo as Dylan Hunt (Highguard Captain), as an actor and a human being. Keith Hamilton Cobb as The Nietzschean Tyr Anasazi, great acting you really wanted to punch his smug Nietzschean face. Gordon Michael Woolvett as Seamus Harper the Kaylee Winnit Frye counterpart from Firefly, the Ships mechanic/engineer and Brent Stait as Rev Bem. That makeup must have been murder. Just an awesome show.The UK versions I usually buy always seem to be better quality than the US versions..... why is that ? Anyway very happy with this purchase