Hi There, I recently bought Farscape Season 1 boxset on DVD and was horrified, shocked and dismayed by the vast amount of DVD compression artefacting that I was rampant through all 22 episodes!! This type of poor encoding should not be seen with todays technology! I also bought Seasons 2 & 3 but i am yet to watch those and hoping that the encoding is much better on these discs. I have been reading the Australian DVD Plaza forums which I discovered after buying the DVDs and it would seem that the problem is wide spread! Obviously Quality Assurance wasn't even considered, or the person encoding the series was asleep on the job that week! If you're interested, please read the DVD Plaza Topic at the following address. The lack of praise for this release starts at page 11 which is what i have linked to. http://www.dvdplaza.com.au/forums/showthread.php?t=18503&page=11&pp=15 I recommend that you take a look at some screen shots that I have captured. They have not been manipulated except for converting from a BITMAP image to a JPEG image with 100% quality. These are some of the worse scenes which are towards the end of the series. The remaining previous episodes aren't much better at all during fast motion scenes. - http://mrpayner.customer.netspace.net.au/farscape/ I have tried these DVDs in 6 different players with the same results! This is un-acceptable quality. :( I want someone from the Australian office of Universal Pictures to please contact me immediately regarding the Season 1 boxset of Farscape as I want a boxset that has been encoded properly with absolutely no digital artefacting [compression].. This is truely astonishing! Someone please contact me immediately. Regards, Adam Payne.