What a great show and great DVD set, at a very reasonable price (currently $29.99 at Amazon). Nearly 12 years since it first aired, I am very glad to finally have this DVD set, first time it's ever been available in any format. Six DVDs, very well packaged in a plastic box. Each DVD is securely in place and easily accessible, yet the entire box is only the width of a normal DVD. The only downside to the packaging is that the episode guide is covered up by DVD #1 and DVD #6, so you have to remove those to read the guide, or else open the package wide and pull out the insert to read the guide. But who wants to read the guide anyway, when the enjoyment here is from playing all the DVDs from beginning to end? I'd rather be surprised than read the DVD guide ahead of time. A guide like this is only valuable for identifying favorite episodes to re-watch anyway, as far as I'm concerned. I say just watch the episodes from the beginning, without looking at the episode guide ahead of time.
As far as the picture and sound quality here goes, it's great. I was a little surprised that the 6 DVDs are one sided rather than double sided. Although double sided DVDs can have quality problems, so maybe it's best that these are one sided. There are 23 episodes here, each of about 45 minutes (that's the "hour" without commercials), so most of these have a little over 3 hours of content (there are also "trailers" for each episode, but I did not watch those). I thought that putting 3 hours of content on one DVD would result in over-compression, but the picture and sound still are really good. On my PC if I looked extremely closely I could see an ultra-tiny bit of graininess (most movies I've seen on DVD have this too), but that's extremely minor. I'm especially happy about the quality given the age of the show, 12 years to put this to DVD. The sound is really good and clear too, which as you recall is important - the famous title music is well preserved here.
As to the show itself, that's been well discussed by others. I'll just add that this is one of those programs where character development does matter, so it's great to be able to have this from the beginning. There are a lot of recurring characters throughout the four years of Early Edition. And don't get too hung up on little things like the date of the newspaper in the pilot vs. the other episodes. The date of the paper in the pilot episode shows November, while the later episodes refer to Gary getting the paper starting in September. Apparently the origin of the paper was changed to September to coincide with the first airings of those episodes (i.e. also in September). So when the pilot episode says "November" on the paper, just think "September", and it works. Especially given that the first episode refers to the Chicago Cubs, which would not have been playing in November anyway. Hey it's a tv show, a unique and terrific one. And I'm very happy with the way these DVDs turned out. Now if we can get the other three seasons, I'll be even happier. But even if season 1 is all we get, it's highly enjoyable, so I definitely recommend it.
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