(2nd emphasis mine)
You might have also read about it here, right at everyone's favorite animation-themed website, he said with a complete and unashamed sense of naked self-promotion .
The reason why the initial Freedom single-volume releases were so horribly expensive was that they were all DVD/HD DVD hybrid discs. If you had an HD DVD player, they were gorgeous, but if you didn't, they were extremely expensive DVRAB. However, the Blu-ray box turned out to be one of my favorite releases all last year, and it's still one of the most gorgeous Blu-ray discs I own.
However, the fact that they're pushing the series out on DVD and at a very nice $40 price point for the set will hopefully mean I will have people either agreeing with me with great gusto or telling me I totally suck for liking the series as much as I do. On the other hand, that $40 price point also makes me think it will model the earlier releases, with a 4-disc DVD set with only an hour's worth of program plus a few bonuses per disc.