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Noiretirc wrote: Sun Oct 25, 2026 3:48 am Varda and Bergman boxes have similar slots, right? I've never had reason to complain about those.

Same. And the Zatoichi box too.

The one box set I've had an issue with is, ironically, one which doesn't have slots, the fucking Jackie Chan Emergence of a Superstar set. You have to grip and pull with all your might to get the case with the discs out of the overlying slipcase.

The slots? Never had an issue, personally.

Didn't have the issue with the Bergman set. Had issues with the Zatoichi set last time I wanted to take a disc out of it, as it got stuck because of the glue. A problem I never had with a plastic case, like ever, and that no packaging, whose primary function is to protect its content, should ever pose.

fdm wrote: Mon Oct 26, 2026 10:46 pm I trashed one of its discs when I tried to extricate it from its sleeve. It was really stuck in there. Criterion replaced it for me. (This was the original dual-format box, not too long after it was released.) Now stored with the rest of the blu-rays in a 9-disc blu-ray case.

My copy of Zatoichi is dual-format too and the discs still sit in their original packaging. Not sure if I got a revised printing (having bought it years after release), but they're holding up just fine. Same goes for Collected Works of Miyazaki (which I've had longer), Hammer Horror: The Blu-Ray Collection, as well as the first Hitchcock collection and all of Arrow's Shawscopes (though I store those face down instead of standing up). The only issue I've had with sleeve packaging is Godzilla, which was a nightmare and I essentially got every disc replaced. Those new discs now sit in a large blu-ray case.