Battlestar Galactica The Complete Series (Re-imagined) Blu-Ray Review

I will admit that I didn't watch the series until about a year ago, at that time it was on DVD and on an old tube TV. Since then I have re-watch the series on Blu-Ray, on a proper 1080p HDTV, I have an insight into how the show looks on both formats.  Now instead of talking about the show itself, I will be reviewing the Blu-Ray complete series that was release in April 2010.

VIDEO: 5/5

     Battlestar Galactica is a show that definitely benefits from being on Blu-Ray. The video received an MPEG-4 AVC transfer and it looks absolutely amazing, you can see every dimple on Adama's face. One of the thing that sticks out to me when watching the series on Blu-Ray that I never had notice on the DVD is the film grain, most people don't like film grain in video but it adds to the greedy feel of the show.

AUDIO: 5/5

    Every "Frak", FTL jumps, engine roar, and explosion sounds crystal clear. Battlestar Galactica delivers a 5.1 Master Audio, that sounds breathtaking clear and draws you into the universe.

EXTRAS: 4/5

     Most of the Extras from the DVD release have made it to the Blu-Ray. There is one extra that I notice that didn't make to the Blu-Ray release for some reason, the season one DVD release had a TV special that the Sci-fi channel had called "Inside Sci-fi" where cast and crew talk about the show. The DVD and Blu-Ray release are still missing "Face of the Enemy" webisodes, which is odd since it has the other webisodes. The Blu-Ray release does come with exclusive extras, their is picture in picture track that plays during the miniseries, two trivia tracks, and BD-Live.

PRESENTATION: 4/5

     The box set of Battlestar Galactica comes with all four seasons of the show on 20 disc,"Razor" is part of season four set. Also include in this box set is the movie "Battlestar Galactica The Plan" to bring the total number of discs to 21. Each season comes in it own box  and "The Plan" comes in standard Blu-Ray case.  This is my only problem with this set is "The Plan" looks like it was just thrown in at the last minute, I wish they would have put it in a nicer case that fill out the remaining space in the case. The other issue with the "The Plan" is on the season disc of the show, the disc have image of Cylons, the ship, and space but "The Plan" has the standard Universal disc image.
     Moving onto the layout of the disc menus, Battlestar Galactica uses Universal's standard disc menus that they use on every Blu-Ray release, in my opinion are uninteresting. "The Plan" has advertisements that play on the menu, I payed over a hundred dollars for this set and I don't what to see advertisements, especially on the menu!

Each season case laid out

How each season fits into the case

Images on the disc

Universal's standard menu setup

OVERALL SCORE AND RECOMMENDATION: 4.5/5

     The Blu-Ray release of the series does it absolute justice, except "The Plan". If you are a fan of the series or newer comer like me Battlestar Galactica will offer you something that you are looking for, and a must buy for any fan of the series.

XBOX 720

What I would like to see for the next XBOX system

1. Blu-Ray Player (I know this should go without saying, I remember when the format war was going on Microsoft said if HD-DVD lost that they would come out with a Blu-Ray add-on. The war ended in early 2008, now it April 2010 and no Blu-Ray add-on.)
2. PS3 style of replacing the hard drive (No one whats to play $130 for 250gb hard drive that they can get for about $45 on newegg that about $85 difference in price)
3. The ability to store media on to the hard drive
4. Continued with the ability to use third party USB flash drive to save data (I like this feature, the ability to store DLC, Demos, and save game on USB drive. The only thing I would like to see is the ability to use a flash drive bigger then 16gb.)
5. Quieter disc player (My 360 sounds like coffee pot making coffee when its reading from the disc player.)
6. Built in wireless card (Get with the times Microsoft every thing now has a build in wireless card in it.)
7. Internet browser (I live at a college dorm that require me to log in before you can use the internet. Which would make a hundred dollar wireless card pointless because I have to use my laptop to stream the internet to be able to connect to xbox live. If it had an internet browser I could log in and play wireless.)
8. Free online play (Most gamers would say that xbox live is the best online system out there, making it free would make it even better. For $50 a year I could buy new video game for that price. Plus the Wii and Playstation 3 have free online play.)
9. No Red Ring or 3/4 Ring of Death (don't rush the 720 out to market before the other systems to make profit, Take your time with it Microsoft!)

Now I know some of these thing you can do with the PlayStation 3 already and Microsoft would be smart to include these features in there next system. Lets just hope that Microsoft doesn't name it XBOX 720!