When we
first posted news in late April about
Rome - The Complete 2nd Season, the materials HBO had provided showed a release date of August 14th. That date was still in effect at the beginning of May, when we
first brought you box art for this release (shown again below). However, reader Gavin Claypool (who also gets credit for suggesting the headline of our story, so much thanks to him) noticed recently that
the Amazon.com pre-order listing had a slightly earlier date, and asked us to check into it.
We have, and according to all of our sources at both HBO Home Video and Warner Home Video, the date is now
August 7th for this release. So the
Rome - The Complete 2nd Season DVDs will, in effect, be built in seven fewer days than expected. Nice! Looking around the 'net, many online retailers and "coming soon"-type list websites have the new correct date, but others (such as retailer Overstock.com, just to randomly pick on them as an example) still have the old date as of this writing. Thanks again to Gavin for his help in pointing this out to us!
