As wikis lhe forneceram uma resposta completamente correta, e eu sou da opinião de que você deve selecioná-la como a melhor.
Existe, no entanto, algo que qualquer consumidor consciente de preço deve ter em mente, caso decida comprar os DVDs da série 1984 para o seu filho: houve (pelo menos) 2 lançamentos diferentes da série em DVD. Os primeiros lançamentos, entre 2002 e 2004, têm numerosos problemas.
Rhino's DVD boxsets have been criticized by owners. Various reasons
include that the episodes as seen on the Rhino DVDs are based on
incomplete 35 mm film masters, as opposed to the original 1" broadcast
master videotapes aired on television. Although the film masters are
very detailed and colorful, some of the episodes contain alternate or
incomplete/missing animation that was originally corrected/completed
for the broadcast versions. As a result, the DVD versions on some of
the episodes are less "finished" than the versions that aired on
television. Rhino attempted to fix some of the "new" errors, with
lackluster results. Most of the errors are in the Season 1 box set
with "Heavy Metal War" being the worst episode in terms of incomplete
animation and bad attempts by Rhino to fix the errors.[17]
In addition, the telecine transfer of the film masters turned out to
be sub-par, and did not provide any proper 3:2 pulldown system for
transferring the 24 frames-per-second film to 60 fields-per-second
video. As a result, aliasing (jaggies) appear frequently in most, if
not all, of the episodes.
Further, the Rhino versions of the episodes have a plethora of
newly-added sound effects from a stock sound effects library (which
many fans have said are annoying and distracting), sound effects that
did not appear in the episodes as originally produced and broadcast.
These sound effects were intended to only appear on the episodes' 5.1
soundtrack, but for select episodes in the Season 1 and Season 2 Part
1 sets, the stereo soundtrack also exhibited the added sounds. For the
Season 2 Part 2 set, every single episode's 2.0 stereo soundtrack had
the added sounds from the 5.1 track. It wasn't until the Transformers
Season 3, Part 1 boxset that Rhino bowed to the fanbase and added an
"original broadcast audio" option. These new sound effects were also
applied to several European releases of the Transformers series, as
well as to The Transformers: The Movie: Reconstructed DVD (although it
should be noted that Rhino's own version of TF:TM does not have the
added sound effects). Only serving to enhance the discontent, the
sound studio responsible for this, Magno Sound, claim that the sounds
were always there.[18]
(from the wiki article)
Em todos os relatórios, os lançamentos mais recentes (edição de 25 anos ou "Matrix of Leadership" Edition) NÃO apresentam esses problemas.
Cuidado com o comprador - se você acidentalmente pegar os sets do Rhino, o show vai sofrer por isso.