Should box sets come in prevex audio boxes?

You see it really wouldn't bother me too much about the art work. You only get one real piece of art work for Survivors , blakes 7 liberater chronicles, counter measures etc for example on the outer sleeve.

At least they seem to have cut that nonsense where a 5 disc set like The First Doctor Boxset had five separate boxes. It's not like there was a plethora of fresh, exciting art to display either - it was all minimalist. So much room taken up unnecessarily.

Not the biggest fan of stacked CDs either. It's a bit annoying when you have to lift each and every CD to get to the one you want.

For one box I prefer the type where each CD is in its on like compartment that you have to flip through to get.

Yeah, I liked that book-style cover for the Frankenstein CD's too; very luxurious and neat looking on the shelf... if only BF had started their 'Classics' range of CDs with that type of cover, all of the CDs would look really cool on a book shelf.

now a download only buyer as I am over whelmed with cds....audiobooks, music & BF I must have well over 4000 cases of various sizes....now all boxed & stored away and never see the light of day.

but I have found nothing that is more convenient to store or display than standard CD cases......I still think BF should use 2 of their main range flip cases with a reversible covers for their box sets. Use the spare space on the CD to put the extras and do away with the "bonus" disk. anything extra should really be a download exclusive. thank goodness they seemed have ditched the "special" "deluxe" & "premium" packaging which is really a by world to grab an extra few quid from the downloaders without giving them anything extra!

but I am not a fan of the stacked cd cases, you end up with cd's balanced in the lid you have listened too, which then end up on the floor as you try to remove the last cd....
although I did have one with a split spindle with one half on the lid to put the cd's on.

but in all seriousness the only real way forward is downloads, in 20 years I can't help but see tons of cd's no one uses anymore just like the tons of VHS tapes now in land fill.
as much as I love having something to hold and I know they feel important to us, it all feels like our children's waste problem for the future.

I don't have a ton of physical CDs from BF, but the only box set I have is the one for the first two series of Dorian Gray, and I believe that one is what you're refering to by 'prevex' (I couldn't find the name via searching, admittedly). It's a whopping ten discs long (five for the series, three for the specials, one for the Bernice Summerfield 'pilot' episode, and one for music) and in a spindle-like casing. I admit, it seems sturdier than the traditional jewel case; I had The Picture of Dorian Gray shipped with it, and while the casing on that one had been broken in several places, Confessions held fine.

The only issue I could see was an aesthetic one. It reminded me of the cases they used to use for CDs at our library years ago, kind of blocky and not as pleasing to the eye as jewel cases.

Since recent box sets seem to be moving towards single-cover setups (at least as the single-image-file MP3 releases have shown), I'd be on board for something like 'prevex', as it's a sturdier material for shipping. It might even encourage someone like me to buy more sets, knowing they had a better chance to survive the overseas trip. But I feel like the look would turn some customers off.

(That said, I do miss individual cover art; but I also get cutting that from the budget for series like Counter Measures, which may not have as much of an audience)

I am the opposite of this, extra's should only be available to cd buyers. For when BF goes to download only, I'm out, just like I'm out on the sst's now. Though if someone wants to burn them on cd for me, I do tip very well...(and if they wanted to go that extra mile and make a nice case design in jewel cases, i'll pay thru the nose for them, just sayin.)

Ive picked up several cd's of various musicians that were never released on cd, that look just like the album covers on cd, they cost more, sometimes triple, but they are well produced one at a time, and I pay for hard work, on that note, BF has done decided they don't want my money for their sst's, so I have to spend it elsewhere.

I'm a collector, how much is your download worth? how much can you get if you resale it?  Some of the cd's I own are fetching a fairly nice price on ebay and amazon.

Much like comic books, I prefer the hands on, not the downloads.

Plus, when I drive my rig, I set up what I'm going to listen to, I have them in a neat order so I don't even have to look at the cover, just eject, put up open up and pop in...easy as lighting a cigarette, and no where near as distracting as even changing the channel on the radio...downloads, you have to read and choose, and I don't even talk on the phone while driving, and hope everyone that texts and drives only ends up killing themselves and no one else when they finally wreck, but that's another conversation, and my biggest pet peeve.