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Health warning: the DVD price comparison feature on LocateTV can seriously raise your blood pressure. There are few things more irritating than realising that the Rome Season One box set you bought last week (life just ain’t the same without all that sex, blood and brawn) from the BBC website at £36.49 could have been snapped up at £24.97 from Amazon. Although that’s mild compared to one US site, tlavideo.com, which is selling it for $89.99 - ouch.

Lesson learnt: check LocateTV to get the best deal. But that’s only the start of the dilemma. Do you go for the cheapest option, or one of the more ’special’ editions? Just how much more viewing pleasure does a bells-and-whistles version give you compared to the basic film? Are you a purist who believes you should respect the director’s cut or a cynic who thinks it’s only a ploy to get a bigger cut of your wage packet?

Take another historical fight-fest, Kingdom of Heaven. Now, do you shell out for the 2 Disc Special Edition with such extras as ‘trailers And TV spots’ (OK), an ‘interactive production grid’ (huh?) and ‘6 featurettes’ (is that even a word?) But hang on, surely that’s superceded by the grand-sounding Definitive Edition? And how that could be more definitive than the 4 Disc Special Extended Director’s Cut is anyone’s guess. Ironically, the bog standard one-disc no-extras version is more expensive than all of the above.

It might be less stressful just to catch it when it’s next on TV.