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Well, additional note on the DVD2Blu promotion: looks like some of the movies are $7, and TV seasons are $15 each
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If you have a Reward Zone Silver account at Best Buy, they have a coupon for 30% off any regular-priced Blu-Ray $34.99 and under. Might be able to get it to work on TS3 in addition to the $8 manufacturer's coupon.
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Oct 28, 2010 21:02
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The Twilight Zone Season 3 is coming February 15 Antichrist reviewed here You know you're burning yourself out on the Alien Anthology set when you start having vivid nightmares about a facehugger attacking you on the set of a movie with Bill Paxton and that little dude from all the Jeunet movies.
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Oct 28, 2010 21:09
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And, as a reminder, Twilight Zone Season 2 is out November 16.
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Goddamn it, I'm not even halfway through Season 1 yet. Not enough time for all these Blu-Rays 
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Bambi posted:The Twilight Zone Season 3 is coming February 15 I'm so glad they are continuing to pump these out. If they continue at this rate, we should have the entire series before the end of next year.
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I'm hearing Jan. 25th for Enter The Void in the US - I hope it has both cuts like that beautiful French release. I'd just plan on importing that French one if it weren't for the fact that it comes from a studio that likes to force French subtitles...
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Tony Danza Claus posted:100% agreement. Good god, these blurays are amazing. 1-3 have all been great. Now it's time to slam through some special features. I've got a lot of new blurays to watch, but I can't put this set down. Just have to chime in here. I picked it up on Tuesday and good god it is a beautiful set. I love the packaging. The only thing that sucks is the audio in 3. I know a lot of the audio was all that they had(talking about the added scenes mostly), but couldn't they have done any more processing to fix it? A lot of the scenes the background sounds drown out the dialog to the point where you can barely understand it. A lot of talking scenes are pretty hard to make out too unless you are in a totally silent room(no fans, ac/heat running). I even notice the audio issues on scenes which were not new. Does Alien 3 just have a lovely sound mix?
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When I've worked my way through all the brilliant Star Trek blu rays, I'll definitely move on to The Twilight Zone.
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I assume that on BluRay the Twilight Zone episodes that were shot on video still look like crap?
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Noxville posted:I assume that on BluRay the Twilight Zone episodes that were shot on video still look like crap? The only season with video episodes is season 2, which isn't out on Blu-ray yet - so we can't really speak from experience. But yes, I can't imagine them looking very good. It's only 5 episodes though, and the rest of the season should be as beautiful as season 1.
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Has anybody else watched their The Girl Who Played with Fire disc? I watched it the other night and the picture quality seems strangely... bad. At the very least, it's inconsistent. Some shots look fine while others look really fuzzy and noisy. I also saw a big-rear end hair or scratch or something dancing around on the right side of the screen for like 15 seconds. I don't remember The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo having these issues.
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Oct 29, 2010 04:21
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Aliens owns so loving hard on bluray, good lord
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Blue Underground's lineup for 2011 so far: Zombie House by the Cemetery The Cat O' Nine Tails Inferno Deep Red Quiet Days in Clichy Daughters of Darkness God Told Me To Q: The Winged Serpent loving 
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If you buy the Alien Anthology and The Last of the Mohicans together on Amazon, you get $20 off, making your total $84.98 for both. That's less than buying the Alien Anthology by itself.
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In regards to my earlier post about The Girl Who Played with Fire: I didn't realize that this and the third one were basically made-for-TV movies and shot in 16mm. I was wondering why the second one looked so much shittier than the first.
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doctor thodt posted:If you buy the Alien Anthology and The Last of the Mohicans together on Amazon, you get $20 off, making your total $84.98 for both. That's less than buying the Alien Anthology by itself. Unless you buy the Alien boxset from NewEgg. Sporadic posted:NewEgg has the Alien boxset for $79.99 shipped Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Oct 29, 2010 |
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Cool stuff from blu-ray.com... M. Hulot's Holiday and Playtime from BFI on Nov. 29 White Christmas looks fantastic ...as does Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol I watched Spartacus last night. The quality of the restoration came through occasionally, but it is a disappointing disc. Audio is fantastic, though. Hopefully Criterion eventually gets this and gets Robert Harris to supervise a new transfer.
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doctor thodt posted:Blue Underground's lineup for 2011 so far: Wonder how these will stack up to the Arrow Films releases...
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Jack Does Jihad posted:Wonder how these will stack up to the Arrow Films releases... Arrow is accused of releasing titles that look a little too clean, and people suspect DNR. Blue Underground is accused of releasing titles that look a little too dirty, and people suspect video noise or fake grain to cover a poor source. Not saying either of those allegations are true, but I suspect the general trend will continue (especially since the DNR allegations have already begun for Inferno, with some German studio releasing screenshots of their upcoming release that supposedly has a more intact grain field).
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doctor thodt posted:Blue Underground's lineup for 2011 so far: Every title listed there is essential EuroHorror. Well, God Told Me To and Q are American, but both are still awesome movies. I love Blue Underground.
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Network preorder popped up on Amazon. $13.99 with free VOD viewing through Amazon's service. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0033AI4CK?ie=UTF8&tag=evdaisafi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0033AI4CK
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doctor thodt posted:2/1/11 gently caress yes! All of the Disney classics have been drop dead gorgeous on blu ray.
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World reviewed x2 3.5 pic? Universal  Here's a pretty sweet 4-disc release for basketball fans coming on Feb. 8:  quote:ULTIMATE JORDAN: DELUXE LIMITED EDITION is the ultimate tribute to the greatest basketball player of all time. Newly remastered and packed with exclusive bonus features, this collection is a slam dunk for Michael Jordan fans.
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All of Universal's day-and-date releases have been great, and there's really no reason for this to be any different. For a brand new film, you just downrez and encode from the digital intermediate - there's really no room for transfering or mastering errors. Really all they could screw up is the encode, and that's not what those reviews sound like. More like the reviewers just subjectively didn't like the color timing or something. And looking at the screenshots in that first review, I really don't see anything wrong - exceptional detail, very fine grain/noise structure (the film was a mix of film and HD video footage), and nothing that looks out of place. I really can't stand Blu-ray reviews anymore - even when they're spot on, it feels more like a broken clock being right twice a day than any real insight into the quality of the disc. I don't understand how these people who are supposedly professional reviewers continually get it wrong over and over again. I'm at the point where the only opinions I really care for are the occasional actual film people like Robert Harris who comment on Blu-rays - at least that gives a bit of real perspective on the source. All these reviewers saying "Well BTTF was an 80s film so its meant to have an odd digital sharpness to it" and then criticize the color timing of a brand new film with a digital intermediate are just too ridiculous. Neo_Reloaded fucked around with this message at 03:23 on Oct 30, 2010 |
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So Scott Pilgrim gets 3.5 and BTTF gets 4.5 on that site(even if the reviewers are different people).  Sometimes I wonder if they even watch the movies they review.
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Scott Pilgrim wasn't made 25 years ago so it's going to be held to higher standards for someone anal enough to review the blu ray in the first place.
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doctor thodt posted:Blue Underground's lineup for 2011 so far: Holy poo poo.... I'm going to own all of those.
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doctor thodt posted:Blue Underground's lineup for 2011 so far: Instant purchases for me. Well, maybe not Inferno and Q right away -- but I shall own them at some point!
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doctor thodt posted:2/1/11 I guess Tim Burton's lovely Alice In Wonderland did some good after all....
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Noxville posted:Film grain? Needs more DNR. Not to mention the fact that they have the balls to release this on blu-ray without colorizing it.
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RichterIX posted:Not to mention the fact that they have the balls to release this on blu-ray without colorizing it. 
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Neo_Reloaded posted:All these reviewers saying "Well BTTF was an 80s film so its meant to have an odd digital sharpness to it" and then criticize the color timing of a brand new film with a digital intermediate are just too ridiculous. It doesn't seem troubling to you that two completely different reviews had almost the exact same complaint regarding Scott Pilgrim? "Colors are washed out", "Colors are muted and don't seem nearly as bright." Obviously these reviewers are very familiar with how the film looked theatrically, I don't see why you're so quick to go on a rant over this. Before I saw these reviews, a friend (that I saw the film in theeatres with and who doesn't know anything about blu-ray) was able to watch some of the Scott Pilgrim disc the other day and texted me saying it seemed really dim to him. Between a first hand acount and these reviews, I'm definitely concerned. The image was definitely bright the five times I saw it theatrically.
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