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I'd like to believe that British Red Foreman yells "Oi!" a lot and goes around calling everyone a oval office instead of "dumbass".
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Sklyansky posted:That's a bummer. So I take it remastered editions of the first six seasons of 24 probably wouldn't be in the cards either, seeing that its also Fox. 24 must have been shot on film right? They did release at least one or more seasons on blu ray I thought. Why would they have to "remaster" 24?
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I remember Days Like These. It fit nicely into that weird niche of very American-like sitcoms that were cropping up a lot at the time, like Game On and Coupling where everyone talks about getting drunk and having sex all the time and never actually drink anything or have any sex.
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Holy crap: that was written by the same people who did Peep Show! Wow, it just shows how great writers can make terrible things.
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Professor Clumsy posted:where everyone talks about getting drunk and having sex all the time and never actually drink anything or have any sex. Teenagers, in other words.
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 quote:In the fall, Universal Studios Home Entertainment will bring Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection to Blu-ray. This limited edition box set compiles fifteen titles from the legendary filmmaker's career, thirteen of which make their respective U.S. Blu-ray debut through this package. http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=8987 drat, that looks awesome and I'd argue the cover is better than anything Criterion has put out in a long time. 
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Jun 21, 2012 16:54
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Can you marry blu-ray box sets?
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Goddamn that is amazing. I hope they don't gently caress up the transfers on them, since I own exactly 0 of those Hitchcock movies and should probably stop doing that.
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If the picture is to be believed, it'll take up less shelf space than the bulky DVD version, too. I was going to wait for individual releases of just the must-have movies (Rear Window, Vertigo, Birds, Shadow, in addition to the ones already released) but gently caress it. If it takes up that little real estate, might as well splurge for the full upgrade.
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ApexAftermath posted:24 must have been shot on film right? They did release at least one or more seasons on blu ray I thought. Why would they have to "remaster" 24? Not only "shot on film" but I'm fairly sure it was broadcast in HD to begin with. (So even if it was shot digital, we're good.) So really, it shouldn't be a big deal at all to release the other seasons on blu-ray, they're just waiting on something. Maybe the movie. Same thing with Star Trek: Enterprise. It's the easiest of all the Trek shows to put on blu-ray because it was HD to begin with. But it's also the least popular, so we'll probably have to wait. Anyway, I'm glad Friends is getting the full blu-ray remaster treatment even though I don't care for the show even a little bit. Because I want that to happen to every show. I just want all video, everywhere, to look awesome.
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morestuff posted:Can you marry blu-ray box sets? Back off it's mine.
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FitFortDanga posted:If the picture is to be believed, it'll take up less shelf space than the bulky DVD version, too. I was going to wait for individual releases of just the must-have movies (Rear Window, Vertigo, Birds, Shadow, in addition to the ones already released) but gently caress it. If it takes up that little real estate, might as well splurge for the full upgrade.
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morestuff posted:Can you marry blu-ray box sets? I'm blown away. Amazing. I echo all of you - I can't say enough about the cover as well as the packaging.
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morestuff posted:Can you marry blu-ray box sets? You see! This is what happens when you allow gay marriage. On a serious note, is there any idea how much this thing is going to cost? It sounds expensive.
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Lobok posted:Teenagers, in other words. Only one of those shows I mentioned is about teenagers. It was just a weird trend of the nineties sitcom to have people talking about doing stuff and never doing it. Like Joey in Friends with his rampant sex life.
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Professor Clumsy posted:Only one of those shows I mentioned is about teenagers. It was just a weird trend of the nineties sitcom to have people talking about doing stuff and never doing it. Like Joey in Friends with his rampant sex life. I do not need to see Mr. Matt LeBlanc making love, sir. His word is good enough for me.
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Hey, so what's the status on Lawrence of Arabia? I need to see it again after watching Prometheus, and I feel like I need to watch it in HD because of Ebert's review talking about tiny dots on the horizon turning into people.
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Steve Yun posted:Hey, so what's the status on Lawrence of Arabia? I need to see it again after watching Prometheus, and I feel like I need to watch it in HD because of Ebert's review talking about tiny dots on the horizon turning into people. It has been restored with a 4K transfer...should be released sometime later this year.
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Sporadic posted:It has been restored with a 4K transfer...should be released sometime later this year. I've still never seen it so when this comes out I think I will finally check that off my list.
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Professor Clumsy posted:Only one of those shows I mentioned is about teenagers. It was just a weird trend of the nineties sitcom to have people talking about doing stuff and never doing it. Like Joey in Friends with his rampant sex life. No, I mean that's what teenagers are. Maybe Joey's girlfriends were all "Canadian".
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Hey, does anyone here have the Crank 2 blu-ray? I've got problems with it and I want to know if there's some secret trick to actually getting the thing to play. I figured out from googling that the issue is somekind of stupid online feature the disc has. I downloaded the updates to my player (Sony S-470) and it didn't resolve the issue.
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It's a firmware feature designed to spare you from having to watch "Crank 2."
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Rocco posted:It's a firmware feature designed to spare you from having to watch "Crank 2." gently caress that, Crank 2 is awesome. Thankfully I only paid a dollar for it so if there's no fix for this besides "Spend 300 dollars on a Playstation 3" it's not a huge loss.
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CPL593H posted:I only paid a dollar for it.. The prophecy has been fulfilled.
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Sporadic posted:It has been restored with a 4K transfer...should be released sometime later this year.
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CPL593H posted:Hey, does anyone here have the Crank 2 blu-ray? I've got problems with it and I want to know if there's some secret trick to actually getting the thing to play. I figured out from googling that the issue is somekind of stupid online feature the disc has. I downloaded the updates to my player (Sony S-470) and it didn't resolve the issue. I've gotten this blu ray in at the shop a number of times, and have tried it with a number of blu ray players and it has never worked. I think I just ended up watching it on Netflix or something.
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Warner is releasing Dial M for Murder and Strangers on a Train on Oct. 9. Dial M is a new 4K restoration with 2-D and 3-D versions. I'm going to wait for reviews on Universal's Hitchcock set. Rear Window will especially look terrible if put through DVNR considering it was shot on grainier early Eastmancolor stock.
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Egbert Souse posted:Warner is releasing Dial M for Murder and Strangers on a Train on Oct. 9. Dial M is a new 4K restoration with 2-D and 3-D versions. Does Universal have a reputation for doing that? I was pretty hyped about finally getting Rear Window on blu-ray and that's some bad news.
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CPL593H posted:Does Universal have a reputation for doing that? I was pretty hyped about finally getting Rear Window on blu-ray and that's some bad news. Not anymore but they do have a reputation for using older transfers instead of putting up the cash for a brand new one. Still, I think it should be fine. - edit And hey, the preorder for Friends: The Complete Collection is up on Amazon. $195.99 - That's not bad for 10 seasons of TV. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...ASIN=B008D19WBQ Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Jun 23, 2012 |
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Sporadic posted:Not anymore but they do have a reputation for using older transfers instead of putting up the cash for a brand new one. Unfortunately those ten seasons of tv are Friends.
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CPL593H posted:Unfortunately those ten seasons of tv are Friends. I was gonna make this joke, but picking on FRIENDS is such low hanging fruit.
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Sklyansky posted:That's a bummer. So I take it remastered editions of the first six seasons of 24 probably wouldn't be in the cards either, seeing that its also Fox. How was that filmed/broadcast? drat these shows that came out in the limbo of when HD was just catching on so it wasn't really a priority. Gilmore Girls is weird like that too. I don't think it was ever even broadcast in HD (even in syndication), and you can only buy physical DVDs of it, but digital HD versions of seasons 3-7 exist.
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I already 'have' HD versions of Friends as they've been getting quite a bit of showing recently. I own the DVD's but they're in storage now, and it was quicker to back them up like this than engage in any time consuming ripping. I know that the UK's Comedy Central show them in HD now, even the early seasons looks pretty good and I realised how colourful the show was, in that garish 90's way. Let's say men's fashion was pretty bad then. I only ever watch up until the London episodes though because after that things go downhill fast. Anyway, The West Wing is another show that's had this treatment. With the versions that Amazon stream being HD masters and in widescreen. I'm sure it was different for the US but the first few DVD releases of the show in the UK were full screen, with I think Season 4 onwards switching to wide. Hell according to Netflix even Murder, She Wrote is in HD.
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^^^ I have the West Wing DVDs up to s5 but I haven't put them on in ages... I can't remember how the title cards etc are done, but on the HD 16x9 online they're all 4x3 cropped while the rest of the show is wide. I think both West Wing and Friends are looking fantastic in their remasters, Friends probably more so as those SD masters were floating around for years and were looking pretty ropey for the last year. The show looks completely different now, a massive improvement. I watched most of the first season of West Wing and thought that looked pretty good too, but it always looked good for an SD show. ElwoodCuse posted:How was that filmed/broadcast? drat these shows that came out in the limbo of when HD was just catching on so it wasn't really a priority. Gilmore Girls is yet another case of a 'funny' one - from memory, later seasons were broadcast in HD 16x9, but the DVDs were cropped to 4x3 because that's how Amy Sherman Palladino wanted them, the 16x9 broadcast was against her wishes. (I just looked it up, and a site talking about the imminent 2005 release of the DVD box set states 'Again I'm annoyed that Amy Sherman-Palladino or the WB are releasing this in full screen format and not the originally aired wide screen format but is in Dolby Surround sound.') I think the current web versions of the show look pretty good, and I imagine she shot it 4x3 safe due to the years of production and the fact that was her preferred AR while knowing the broadcast would be wider. Friends was shot without this being a factor, and generally to save money so it's a different circumstance. I personally don't think I'd find issue with either aspect ratio being used if it ever did come out on Blu-Ray, but I imagine it would be the 16x9 versions we see online. EL BROMANCE fucked around with this message at 13:58 on Jun 24, 2012 |
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The pHo posted:^^^ I have the West Wing DVDs up to s5 but I haven't put them on in ages... I can't remember how the title cards etc are done, but on the HD 16x9 online they're all 4x3 cropped while the rest of the show is wide. There was an issue with the Buffy Boxsets as well. Here in the UK the seasons were released as widescreen but in the US they were shot and released in 4x3. Whedon was surprised to learn there was widescreen releases as they were never approved, and as he says, the episodes were made specifically for 4x3. As a result there's one or two goofs visible since people were never meant to see that much of the frame. As for The West Wing. Yeah the title card was produced in 4x3 so that doesn't change if you're watching in widescreen or not. I think the 'previously on...' stuff remains 4x3 as well. In the case of The West Wing, they were careful to keep the action to the centre of the frame as they knew it would be going out in 4x3, however there still seemed to be an eye for opening that up as, unlike the Buffy issue, there's still action going on around the edges. The episode 'Two Cathedrals' for example looks amazing now it's opened up.
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I don't know if it'll make a difference to some people but tvshowsondvd.com mentioned that the Friends blu-ray will contain the original broadcast versions of the episodes and not the ones with the deleted scenes inserted like the DVDs had. Specifically, the article said "The extended cuts were special versions created for the DVDs and no longer exist in a form that could be used for a Blu-ray release." I have less than no idea what they're talking about because of my lack of experience with the show, but it sounds like something that some people might be up in arms about considering the price. Space_Butler fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Jun 24, 2012 |
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Space_Butler posted:I don't know if it'll make a difference to some people but tvshowsondvd.com mentioned that the Friends blu-ray will contain the original broadcast versions of the episodes and not the ones with the deleted scenes inserted like the DVDs had. Specifically, the article said "The extended cuts were special versions created for the DVDs and no longer exist in a form that could be used for a Blu-ray release." That's a shame but it's not a deal breaker. As far as I'm aware it was only the US that had those extended cuts anyway. Basically where the commercials usually go there's about a minute or so added to each episode, some of it is pretty funny, some of it is minor but it was nice to see what were essentially deleted scenes. In fact it was a pretty cool idea and I don't know why more sitcoms on dvd didn't do it.
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