User blog comment:Trainer Micah/Pokemon UltraSun/UltraMoon prediction's 4 Anime/@comment-26573805-20171224055727/@comment-26573805-20171227052357

And another thing Dogasu's actually mentioned a long time ago, the DVD situation in North America is horrible yet no one cares.
 * The DVDs have every single DVD authoring issue - oversaturation, color bleeding, artifacting, and ghosting, and so on - present on the Pokémon discs.
 * The menus are programmed in such a way that whenever you insert it into your computer, the selection is screwy and it takes me like one whole minute to get it to recognize where I'm clicking and the Poké Balls on the Orange Islands set go everywhere.
 * The DVD company in North America, Viz Media, is always in the habit of using their old DVDs that have the same outdated formatting issues. Their so-called "Complete Collections" are missing the episodes that were banned in 2014 on their new Indigo League and Adventures in the Orange Islands re-releases.
 * North America still lacks a DVD release of Chronicles.
 * They also lack proper DVD releases that go by seasons instead of titles/OP themes, and the only way they've made up for this is to release season 1's 52 episodes -- their old box set goes by the fanmade "opening = season" thing which I've said isn't true, and it takes them 6 entire years to learn that titles and seasons are NOT the same thing for seasons 1-6, and I have an old DVD with that packaging mistake on it. However, the new DVDs no longer say "season" on the Indigo League sets and no sets featuring episodes from any other arc or saga Viz has released say "season" on them, yet fans keep spreading false information about seasons, because by nature there are many fans who are overly obsessed with the franchise that this type of false information occurs. Whenever a TV company around the world such as Disney XD India/Hungama TV said they'd air "season 6", this means they'll air the last dozen OP 5 Master Quest eps and the 40 Advanced eps, not just the 40 Advanced eps. Whenever anyone licenses season 1 from TPCi/4Kids/whomever, they get every episode from "Pokémon - I Choose You" to "The Breeding Center Secret" NOT all the episodes taking place in Kanto, which the wiki's mainspace is highly misleading on - being an administrator here does NOT mean I will not catch false information and point it out and it certainly does not mean that I will defend such false information. I don't get why fans other than us/a few users on other sites insist on using their made up "seasons" because it's not how the show is released anywhere; which is why when season 2 aired in Israel, people ridiculously complained about not seeing the Orange League despite the simple fact that it is apart of the first 11 episodes of season 3 and the network didn't say they would air season 3 that year (people unfortunately parrot what Serebii says, which is why they call Pokémon Adventures "THE" manga as if it's the only one, because it's the only one Serebii ever dares to mention on his site). However, seeing as many users (especially those ones from years ago who unquestioningly made these lists based on that "opening = season" nonsense) are adamant about ordering seasons by OP theme, it is waaaaaaaay too unlikely this wiki will ever get the seasons correct. At least the Australian DVDs release the real official seasons rather than titles and opening themes. Their season 1 set contains every ep until The Breeding Center Secret, with season 2's set going from "Princess VS Princess" to "Charizard Chills" like it is officially; part 2 of The Beginning is "Princess VS Princess" to "The Rivalry Revival" and that's why Disney XD and 9 of the Pokémon TV languages have it that way, but the second season itself goes to "Charizard Chills" as that's how the 1999-2000 season aired for all the Kids WB shows and how every channel around the world aired the show.
 * The movie releases are way more atrocious; some of them are only available cropped to 4:3.
 * Movie 5 has that god-awful blue tint problem which to my knowledge hasn't been fixed forwarding to now.
 * A few of the final episodes of the 41-episode Johto Journeys arc which is the latter 41 episodes of season 3 were not released on DVD until late 2015 for apparently no reason whatsoever. The Australian DVDs ALWAYS had these episodes intact. No one is complaining about the stuff we're not getting.

At least Australia's Beyond Home Entertainment is doing it right, coming up with completely great ideas; such as standard season-by-season releases (rather than confusing arc-based releases that fans will FOREVER pretend to be seasons and spread false information as a result of........), season 1+season 2 set, whole region sets like the Heritage Collection Parts 1 and 2, and even recently a deluxe collection containing every episode that's in seasons 1-19. Many of the R1 DVDs easily go out of print in just a few years, happen very rarely, and have every single quality and availability problem I've mentioned...I've seen copies of episodes which are (for example) played off old VHS tapes from Kids' WB! on YouTube or any other similar sites that look way better than what you see on those DVDs.

And the Japanese DVDs, well...:
 * There are not really all that many episodes that you can actually properly purchase instead of rent. All the discs are distributed in rental format of 3 episodes per disc spanning countless volumes that you need to actually individually rent.
 * All the produced-in-HD episodes are cropped to 4:3 because of the DVD production limits. Illegal downloads look better than this.
 * No forgiveness, no extras, commentary, bonus features, nothing, just "Here's the movie you saw on TV a few months ago, only now it's been downscaled to SD and we're charging you $15 for it. Enjoy!".

As Dogasu (a former Bulbagarden staff user who runs a site on Bulbapedia's servers and has been a user on Bulb's forums since January 1, 2003) has noted, "the DVDs are crap, but it seems like people don't care, so unfortunately they're going to remain crap. And that's incredibly frustrating."