I remember being shown the recording of the first episode of this show at a friends house back when it first aired on British TV on channel four, before Sky took over. I was instanly hooked! With all its twists and turns it is a fantastic show and series 1 is arguably the best just because it was a new idea at the time. Every character is amazingly realized and each has their own agenda and motivations, the revelations of which are something to behold towards the end of the story.
Like other people on here, my advice is the buy the DVD release at much cheaper rates.
However, and I've said this before, many, many times here and elsewhere:
1. The iTunes price is only decided by Apple in part, more control on this is exerted by the film studios who are charging Apple extortionate rates to sell their material on the Music Store.
2. The TV studios also set the price of the DVD's sold in shops.
3. If the music store price was lower than the DVD price, it would severely impact DVD sales, just as the low prices for digitally downloaded music have actually closed high street record shops. The studios would then be at Apple's mercy!
4. Do you really believe that Apple, or any other business that is as successful, is in the habit of deliberately pricing themselves out of the market?
So please, stop being so short sighted and blindly engaging in "Apple Bashing". Care to join me in a game of "Warner Bros Bashing" instead?