Take this for what it's worth:
I decided to give Sportys IFR videos a try. I wish I had bought Kings. If you can't afford King's, save your money or use it for more ground school with the instructor. Words can't adequately describe how mind numbingly boring and slow paced the Sportys videos are. Maybe it works for some but I found my attention drifting to various things (such as my dog trying to get the fake marrow out of his chew bone), praying and hoping the host would get on with it and either make a point or hand out a nugget of information.
For example, everytime you mention that something makes you go down, it isn't nescessary to also mention that the exact opposite makes you go up and then re-explain the whole "go-down" theory in reverse for the "go-up" theory. As another example, everytime you mention that something makes you go right, it isn't nescessary to also mention that the exact opposite makes you go left and then re-explain the whole "go-right" theory in reverse for the "go-left" theory. Then they show you a graphic of an arrow, visually reinforcing the "upness" or "leftness" of what they just said. Sometimes, they'll show you a random video of someone flying an airplane under the hood with an instructor. With some imagination, you can pretend that the instructor said something relevant though lip readers, I suspect, will be dissapointed in this regard.
Bored and irratated yet? Get used to it... That's just me being a little silly. There's 6 DVD's full of that kind of nonsense and hair pulling logic. If you can sit through one without screaming on the inside, you're a better man than I.
Kings. Buy-em used. Some of the FARs may be slightly out of date but that's the easy stuff. I just watched an OLD King IFR refresher that a buddy lent me last week. I learned more in that one video in a couple of hours than I did in You-Know-Who's whole course.....AND they were fun to watch.
I could go on but I'm probably already very close to Doug's over-the-line threshold. Still...this is just one man's opinion. I also despise cucumbers and watermellon. Most people love'em. I'm sure there are many that love Sporty's.