Lifetime 12 Films of Christmas

Double sided discs
Just purchased this today as I'd seen some of the featured movies and liked them. It's a great deal getting 12 movies for $18. I just wasn't happy when I opened the case and saw the discs are double sided. I've purchased quite a few movies over the last 12 or so years and in my experience the double sided discs do not last long. I have found myself repurchasing movies that came on double sided discs.

Even though my dvd set was new when I opened it the discs had smudges and light scratching.

My advice would be to find the titles you like and purchase them individually or the lifetime movies that come 2-3 in a package.

Not widescreen as listed, Poor picture quality, they look better on TV.
These are all nice movies I look forward to every year. But don't buy them in this set because they all look like crap. Seriously, these movies are broadcast in HD and widescreen yearly and look much better than the old square TV ratio and awful low resolution on these cheaply produced discs. This is NOT a bargain. They look MUCH better when broadcast on TV. I fell for this same scam last year when a bunch of these movies were packaged and listed on Amazon as being in widescreen and they were all square and low quality. Amazon lists these movies as widescreen and 1.85 aspect ratio. Every one of them here is the old square 1.33 TV ratio. They're broadcast widescreen on TV but they're not here, and the picture quality is not as good either, so they look better on TV than on these discs. Don't waste your money.

Not widescreen as advertised
This is just a repackage of a set released a few years ago. They are NOT widescreen as advertised but Amazon do not update their description to correct this misdescription. At least one of these films is on dvd in widescreen in another pack and I am sure most others are broadcast in 16:9 as made. Why does the distributor insist on releasing them in 4:3 when most TV sets are now widescreen.

Having said that, quality is good and good value but would not have bought them if I' d realised it was not widescreen or repackaged under a new title.

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