Well, I'm in Denmark, but it looks like that version is released on several countries in Europe...

What I want to know is if there seems to be a general problem with this release, or if I were just unlucky?

I bought it yesterday. When I started watvhing it last night, 35 minutes into the second episode (on disc one), the picture started  skipping, freezing and finally my player gave up and reported "Disc error". So, I went back today and got the whole box replaced. Now, I got to disc three, and it started doing the same thing... So it'll be another replacement tomorrow...

But is it just bad luck? Also, I wonder why both of the season 1 boxes I got did not have any plastic wrapping, when both season 2 and 3 did - would it help to demand a plastic-wrapped box? I should I just replace the particular disc instead of the whole boxset, hoping to end up with a non-faulty box?

Quoting DJ Doena:

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The german box is a paperboard box containing 7 individually packed discs (in ThinPacks).

And no I had no problem playing them.

Sorry :-/

Yep, so is the danish one (which also has german subtitles). Reason I believe this to be a "multi-locality" release is that all the writing is in english...

Hmmm... The Danish locality has only English audio...

But it seems it won't be necessary. I did what I probably should have done before posting here, which is stick the disc in my HDD-recorder, and it plays it just fine. After thinking about it, I relized that it only had problems in the seconds layer, so it looks likke I need to look for a new DVD-Player...