Well, the picture isn't the best, to be sure, but I haven't seen any problem with the functionality of the DVDs themselves, if that's what you mean. It's not cinematically beautiful, at all - it's a film of the play, and the play is very, very well done. Warning: It is forever long. The cool thing is how they use the characters as narrators throughout - it's a brilliant solution to the problem of trying to keep Dicken's writing voice in the stage version. So there's some great acting and rather clever staging that makes me wish I had seen it at the RSC playhouse in London. *sigh*

Yeah, I'm wondering if Angela Carter's "The Magic Toyshop" didn't start out as a riff on Nicholas Nickleby. I wouldn't be too surprised. I'm surprised no one has converted Toyshop into a play.