Box set

Artists and bands with a long and successful career often have anthology or "essential" collections of their music released as box sets.

Other music box sets compile different artists from a particular genre such as big band jazz, 1960s rock and roll, or opera.

For example, one can buy box sets of the plays of Shakespeare, collection of J. R. R. Tolkien novels, or Ansel Adams photographic prints.

[1] Films, television and other video programs on Blu-ray and DVD are sometimes sold as boxed sets, as were certain titles on the now-discontinued VHS and LaserDisc formats.

In the context of streaming services such as Netflix, the term "boxed set" often refers, particularly but not exclusively in Commonwealth English, to a series or season where all episodes are available to watch on demand, either in addition to or in place of traditional scheduling.