Amazon price-matches Google Play with 30% off TV season coupon

Google Play has a 30% off TV season promotion running until the end of day on 12/1/15, and it looks like Amazon doesn’t want to be left behind, they are price-matching this offer. At Amazon Instant Video (offer only good on the website, using a web browser), use coupon code TVSEASON30 to get 30% off select TV seasons.

It does not have a list of eligible/ineligible, but the ones that are eligible mention this on their own pages. For example, Season 1 of AMC’s “Into the Badlands” is eligible and has this offer showing on its website. See screen shot of that below:

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November 30, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: ,

Farscape Complete Series on BluRay for $65

If you are a fan of space-based scifi television and you haven’t watched Farscape yet, what are you doing? Drop everything and start watching! This was a boldly going TV series that dared to try all kinds of things that were at the time unheard of (I won’t go into spoilers here). Regardless, this is not a movie review blog, so to the sale we go, you can get the complete series on BluRay for $65 at Amazon by Amazon actual with a limit of three per customer.

This came out at a time when TV seasons were 20+ episodes long, so the four seasons included here included 88 episodes! (see epguides for breakdown). Note however that this set does not include the mini-series “Peacekeeper Wars” which is sold separately. This mini-series was in a way in compressed form of what would have been the fifth and final season.

November 29, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: , ,

30% off one TV Season at Google Play (exp 12/2/15)

The Google Play store has a new promotion, you can get 30% off the current price of a single TV season. To do that, you must go to the TV/Movies section of their website or using the Google Play app, locate this offer, and manually opt-in. You will see a menu like this:

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After you click Continue, the offer is added to your account, and if you look at the “My Account” page with a web browser, this offer shows under the “Rewards” section. It expires by 12/2/15.

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You can decide on which purchase to apply when you make a purchase. However (there’s always a however it seems), it looks like prices went up for single TV seasons. For example, the full season 1 of the brand new TV series “The Expanse” (pilot episode is FREE) increased from $20 to $25. Using this promotion drops it to $17.50. So it’s still less, but not as big of a discount 🙂

November 27, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: ,

Free Pilot Episode in HD for Syfy’s “The Expanse”

Syfy’s new high profile TV series, “The Expanse”, based on the on-going book series by virtual author James S.A Corey will make its TV debut on December 14, but you don’t have to wait for that long, not only to watch but also own the first episode in HD. It is available (for a limited time) for FREE (as on $0.00 purchase) at Amazon Instant Video and M-Go and Google Play and Vudu. These are commercial-free and you can watch it forever.

You can also watch it on YouTube and Hulu and other places but there’s no guarantee it will remain there or that it will be for free in the future, so you are better off scooping it up while it goes for $0.00 at the above streaming services.

Season 1 will be composed of 10 episodes. For cordcutters, the Season Pass price is $20 in HD or $15 in SD. This is a complicated TV show, especially if one has not read the the books this is based on, so it’s not a bad idea to watch each episode 2-3 times (with subtitles on) until you become familiar with all the world-buildling and custom language and slang used.

November 23, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: , ,

DVD set: The Last Airbender (Complete Series) for $25

If you are a fan of anime, the DVD set of “The Last Airbender” TV series is on sale for $25 at Amazon, with the usual free shipping prerequisites. This comes with 16 discs and was released in early October of this year.

However, if you are a fan of the series, there’s another option coming out on November 17 of this year that you may find more tempting, an Amazon Exclusive set that includes the DVDs plus an 80-page illustrated book, the “Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Promise Part 1”, written by the series creative duo. The story in the book picks up after the TV series ended. Check your favorite anime website or forum for more details.

November 11, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: ,

DVD Set: Wing Commander Academy for $8

On sale again, on DVD, the animated scifi TV series “Wing Commander Academy”, based on the popular old-school video games, is now going for $8 at Amazon by Amazon actual. Free shipping for Prime members or with a $35+ order for non-members. Total runtime is about 4.5 hours, a total of 13 episodes and it originally aired in 1996.

October 29, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: , ,

[DEAD] TV on DVD: Season 1 of Goldbergs for $10

This limited time sale ended, but fear not, there’s usually a barrage of TV season sales during the holiday season…

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October 22, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: ,

Battlestar Galactica Season 4.5 Collectible DVD set (Character Profile Book, Adama’s Dog Tags) for $20

If you are a fan of Battlestar Galactica, the 21st century re-imaging by RDM, and you like to collect the collectibles, the Season 4.5 DVD set bundled with a colorful Character Profile Book and Commander Adama’s Dog Tags is on sale for $20 at Amazon.com. The seller is Newbury Comics with the order fulfilled by Amazon, so if you’re a Prime member you get free 2-day shipping. Everybody else gets free S&H with the usual $35+ order minimum. Limit TWO sets per customer.

PS: back in its day (in the 2000s), they were still doing 20+ episode seasons on cable. Battlestar was typically airing in two half-seasons. So many of the DVD sets were half-seasons. Later on, they would have bundles for full seasons and of course the full series. So if you see “4.0” or “4.5” it means they are half-seasons.

October 14, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: ,

BluRay Deal: Battlestar Galactica 35th Anniversary for $8

Richard Hatch fans. Okay, not just him, but fans of the original Battlestar Galactica. A version of the movie-pilot (125 minutes commercial-free runtime) of the series is now on sale, in the 35th Anniversary Blu-ray edition, for just $8 at Amazon.com, same price as the DVD version.

Check the reviews if you are looking for a specific version/edit of this (yes, there are multiple). Multiple versions are on the same review page, so to find the reviews for this particular anniversary blu-ray, use this link that pre-filters for it. There are forty reviews for this particular version out of a total of 280+ for all versions.

October 11, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: , ,

Party Down Complete Series on DVD for $9.39

The short-lived Starz Original series “Party Down” with some notable actors including the lovely Jane Lynch and Megan Mullally has now been released as a “Complete Series” DVD set (four discs) and it is on sale for $9.39 at Amazon.com. Prime membership gets you free shipping, otherwise a $35+ order. You can buy as many sets as you like. Total runtime is around 550 minutes.

October 8, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: ,

Game Of Thrones BluRays for $30 per season (S1, S2, S3, S4)

If you are interested in picking up any of the first four Game Of Thrones BluRay seasons, for a limited time (good until 10/12/15), you can get them for $30 per season at Amazon.com.

If you prefer the DVD sets, they go for $25. The BluRays include “Digital HD” which you can redeem among select services. The DVD sets does not include a digital copy.

October 5, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With:

Various Stargate DVD series/seasons for $10 or less

If you are missing some seasons from the three different Stargate TV series (SG-1, Atlantis, Universe), or you only want to buy specific seasons and not the whole boxed set, at the moment, Amazon has various seasons on sale for around $10 or less. Here are some prefilled searches to help you find the ones you may be interested in:

  • Stargate SG-1 (ten seasons, DVDs)
  • Stargate Atlantis (five seasons, DVDs)
  • Stargate Universe (two seasons, DVDs)
  • some are available as BluRays for a few dollars more
  • NOTE: all seasons are available for free streaming with the Amazon Prime membership
  • if you need the complete series, wait for the holiday sales, they will likely go on sale at least once (guessing)
September 30, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With:

$5 DVDs: Justified Season 1, Deliverance (Deluxe)

If you are okay with DVDs and don’t have to have BluRays for everything (after all they are going to start pushing the 4K thing now), there are a couple of critically acclaimed items on sale for $5 or less at Amazon. And better yet, if you are a Prime member, you get free shipping:

September 17, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With:

[DEAD] Wing Commander Academy (Animated TV series) for $8 [DVD]

As of 9/13/15, the discounted DVDs from marketplace sellers got all sold-out…

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September 10, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: ,

DVD set: Space, Above and Beyond for $21.55

Some TV shows for whatever reasons are not making the rounds on the popular streaming networks. One of those is the short-lived (one season only) space-based scifi series “Space: Above and Beyond”. It is currently on sale, Season 1 (the only season) in DVD format for around $21.50~ by a marketplace seller fulfilled by Amazon.com. Firefly was not the only show killed prematurely by Fox TV at the end of the last century…

August 27, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: