2025/12/04
I have just purchased this complete set of Daredevil. When it arrived I learned it is not an official release but a bootleg. I was in doubt about it when I saw it on EBAY, but I wanted it to be genuine I guess. So, be warned, it is a bootleg or a fake or however you may call it. Having said that, the set almost looks official, there are some (obvious) errors on the backside of the set, which you can see below, which I didn’t see when I was purchasing it, but other than that, it really does look nice, the discs themselves also have a nice print on it and I tested a disc of each season, I do not see any difference with any other show on Blu-ray. The even more trained eye perhaps will notice some differences but from what I saw, it looks very decent.
I came to the decision to purchase the original Daredevil series after finishing Daredevil: Born Again. It was about 10 years ago when the original show first streamed on Netflix and I watched the first two seasons. Then there was a wide gap between seasons two and three, and for some reason I did not get back into the show to finish the last season. Well after seeing Daredevil: Born Again for the first time, it made me want to watch the original series again, including season three. Not sure when I get around to it, but if I can, I want to watch it on physical media, so hence, this purchase.
As said, it does look like an official release, except for some obvious mistakes on the backside of the cover. Just check out the premise on the backside, the last sentence: “Murdock faces a fight on two frents to keep the city sale”! Also, when you check out the red bar on the backside, it says 1080 Hight Defintion widescreen, two more errors. Also you see English 5.1 Dolby Digital, while a bit below in back it says Master Audio 7.1. Perhaps there are more errors which elude me at the moment, but you get the gist of it at least. But this doesn’t bother me that much to be honest.
So it does have an English audio track and it also has English subtitles. The set is region free, which is obvious because it is a bootleg, but I checked for you to be sure, played in my region free player which was set to region A and on my region B player. In both players, a Panasonic and an LG player, it works. The set has no inner print, neither does the carton box which holds the set and do also not expect any special features, it is a bare bones release with nothing more than the episodes.
Please click on the pictures to enlarge. / ps. the difference of color of the cover most likely is due because I shot the pics of the sealed set on day of arrival, other pics the next day with different light
Final Word:
It just shows that it is not always obvious if something is an official release, in this case, I think I should have been more observant, I think I would have spot those errors online also instead of when it arrived. Still, I am pleased with the set for now, I mean, it looks good, the short pieces I watched do look very good. I am not going to recommend this set this time, because for obvious reasons, you’ll have to decide for yourself if you want to purchase this bootleg set and as I said, be observant and when you are in doubt, your gut will tell you if something is off. I didn’t listen to my gut with this purchase, but I guess I wanted it to be an official release so I ignored my gut.
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