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Red posted:Dredd comes out tomorrow on Blu-Ray. Is it worth dropping the $19.99 now, or should I wait a week for it to drop further? Usually the first week is when stuff is cheaper. At least that has been my experience of things with Best Buy. Usually after that first week the prices jump slightly.
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Sporadic posted:There's also a thing that pops up on the register asking if the buyer is 18 or older. Same with rated M games. Is this a new thing or just a thing that's hardly enforced? I used to buy all sorts of R-rated movies when I was a kid and no one said poo poo.
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CPL593H posted:Is this a new thing or just a thing that's hardly enforced? I used to buy all sorts of R-rated movies when I was a kid and no one said poo poo. It's a newer-ish thing and it seems like unless you look very very young no cashier is going to hassle you over it. Usually most of them just type in a bullshit birthdate when the register prompts them.
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ApexAftermath posted:It's a newer-ish thing and it seems like unless you look very very young no cashier is going to hassle you over it. Usually most of them just type in a bullshit birthdate when the register prompts them. Well to be fair I was going back to the era of VHS on that one. 
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ApexAftermath posted:Usually the first week is when stuff is cheaper. At least that has been my experience of things with Best Buy. Usually after that first week the prices jump slightly. You shouldn't be buying from Best Buy. They use the MSRP of blu-rays most of the time, which is a massive rip-off.
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GonSmithe posted:You shouldn't be buying from Best Buy. They use the MSRP of blu-rays most of the time, which is a massive rip-off. If you go into a brick and mortar one you can sometimes find some pretty sweet random deals. I got the Coen Bros box set for $20 months before amazon had the same deal. Also got Pulp Fiction, Terminator 2, and Evil Dead 2 for a total of like $16. But, yeah usually they aren't where you should be getting your movies.
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Kevar posted:If you go into a brick and mortar one you can sometimes find some pretty sweet random deals. I got the Coen Bros box set for $20 months before amazon had the same deal. Also got Pulp Fiction, Terminator 2, and Evil Dead 2 for a total of like $16. Oddly enough I've gotten a whole bunch of Blu-rays at cheaper than amazon prices at FYE. That place is such a price gouge palace, but they have a lot of good deals mixed in too.
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GonSmithe posted:You shouldn't be buying from Best Buy. They use the MSRP of blu-rays most of the time, which is a massive rip-off. To be fair about Best Buy, they've been the ones forcing Amazon to price-match the recent Trek Blu-ray sets.
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Aatrek posted:To be fair about Best Buy, they've been the ones forcing Amazon to price-match the recent Trek Blu-ray sets. Yeah, that's why I said most of the time. Best Buy seems to have a thing for releasing TV shows at REALLY LOW prices and forcing Amazon to match them. Same thing happened with Game of Thrones season 1, and will probably happen with Season 2 too.
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CPL593H posted:Well to be fair I was going back to the era of VHS on that one. Haha, I remember getting turned away when I tried to buy Halo in 2001 (around 13)
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CPL593H posted:Oddly enough I've gotten a whole bunch of Blu-rays at cheaper than amazon prices at FYE. That place is such a price gouge palace, but they have a lot of good deals mixed in too. I came across an FYE around christmas and had no idea they still existed. They even had a vinyl section because obviously trying to keep a business afloat by selling CDs is absurd at this point.
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GonSmithe posted:You shouldn't be buying from Best Buy. They use the MSRP of blu-rays most of the time, which is a massive rip-off. Well I was just talking about "first week" prices. Usually my experience is that the first week of a blu being out their prices will be right in line or better than what Amazon is offering(most of the time). For example they will have Dredd tomorrow for exactly the same price that Amazon is offering it for. You might want to re-examine your outlook on BB. Yeah after the first week things shoot up, but you have to be stupid or crazy to be buying stuff at BB that isn't a first week deal or just something on sale.
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Amazon has a preorder page for Star Trek: Enterprise - Season One already, and it's starting at $83.99 (MSRP $129.99).
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Jan 8, 2013 10:30
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I don't know how many Eagles fans are in here but it looks like their 2004 release of Farewell: Live From Melbourne is finally getting a Blu-Ray release. It's noteworthy since it's one of the few titles that didn't make the jump from HD-DVD. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AR1G3FS...96JGT7DT7HN9CYQ
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Sporadic posted:I don't know how many Eagles fans are in here but it looks like their 2004 release of Farewell: Live From Melbourne is finally getting a Blu-Ray release.
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Aatrek posted:Amazon has a preorder page for Star Trek: Enterprise - Season One already, and it's starting at $83.99 (MSRP $129.99). Your link is a little messed up. Here's a better one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0019N95IK/
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Jeff Wiiver posted:Your link is a little messed up. Here's a better one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0019N95IK/ The heads on that cover... they are so disturbing.
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Random thought: Why is there no Blu-Ray thread icon?
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ApexAftermath posted:Well I was just talking about "first week" prices. Usually my experience is that the first week of a blu being out their prices will be right in line or better than what Amazon is offering(most of the time). For example they will have Dredd tomorrow for exactly the same price that Amazon is offering it for. You might want to re-examine your outlook on BB. Speaking of Dredd, I was just at HMV during my lunch break, and decided to pick it up. It was $22.49, but that was for the 3D Blu Ray/Blu Ray combo. That's actually a fairly low price for a 3DBR, but I noticed that HMV didn't have standard Blu Ray-only copies for sale. The had the DVD, and the 3DBR combo pack. Is this movie available in a non-3D blu ray? I have a 3D-TV, so this didn't discourage me, but if there isn't a blu-ray only version, I could see this discouraging a lot of people from buying it. I know that a lot of people didn't see this in the theatres because the only showings were in 3D.
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CopywrightMMXI posted:Speaking of Dredd, I was just at HMV during my lunch break, and decided to pick it up. It was $22.49, but that was for the 3D Blu Ray/Blu Ray combo. That's actually a fairly low price for a 3DBR, but I noticed that HMV didn't have standard Blu Ray-only copies for sale. The had the DVD, and the 3DBR combo pack. Is this movie available in a non-3D blu ray? Yeah, Dredd is only available in the 3DBR/BR combo pack, because it was advertised basically everywhere as Dredd 3D.
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CopywrightMMXI posted:Speaking of Dredd, I was just at HMV during my lunch break, and decided to pick it up. It was $22.49, but that was for the 3D Blu Ray/Blu Ray combo. That's actually a fairly low price for a 3DBR, but I noticed that HMV didn't have standard Blu Ray-only copies for sale. The had the DVD, and the 3DBR combo pack. Is this movie available in a non-3D blu ray?
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CopywrightMMXI posted:Is this movie available in a non-3D blu ray? Yeah, the 3D Blu-ray version plays in 2D if you want it to. All the Blu-rays are the non-3D version (they're just also the 3D version).
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Red posted:Random thought: Why is there no Blu-Ray thread icon? I made the original  tag, so I just made  to go with it. I'm seeing about getting it added to the forums now.
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Jan 9, 2013 19:57
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Well, my "2012" copy of Zodiac came today from Amazon even though the product vanished for a while and has now reappeared with no option to order. I say "2012" because there is no indication that this blu ray is not one of the original pressings. All the copyright and year info either says 2007 or 2009. What are the chances I lucked out and magically got sent an old Zodiac?
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rear end Catchcum posted:What are the chances I lucked out and magically got sent an old Zodiac? If I recall, there was an issue that third party Amazon vendors were sending the UK blu of Zodiac. I'm not saying this is necessarily the case for you, but it's something you may want to investigate.
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How can I tell? Down at the bottom on the back there is Blu Ray Disc Dolby True HD R rating info then 14A video (yellow dot, seems to be canadian rating system?) then the date and run time.
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rear end Catchcum posted:How can I tell?
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Would that prove it? Aren't some UK Blu rays region free?
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Yes, of course it's region free (everything from WB is), or US sellers wouldn't be selling a disc that couldn't be played. 2008 UK release: Warner Bros, lossy Dolby Digital audio, French/German/Italian/Spanish dubs, 19.81Mbps VC-1, extras on same disc as movie, region free. 2009 US release: Paramount, lossless Dolby TrueHD audio, English only, 38.11Mbps H.264, extras on second disc, region free. The MPAA, Canadian and TrueHD logos and 2009 date all seem to indicate the US release, but if you've only got one disc then maybe the 2012 releases just remove the extras disc. frumpsnake fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Jan 9, 2013 |
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CopywrightMMXI posted:Speaking of Dredd, I was just at HMV during my lunch break, and decided to pick it up. It was $22.49, but that was for the 3D Blu Ray/Blu Ray combo. That's actually a fairly low price for a 3DBR, but I noticed that HMV didn't have standard Blu Ray-only copies for sale. The had the DVD, and the 3DBR combo pack. Is this movie available in a non-3D blu ray? Nope, there is no regular Blu-Ray for Dredd. Just the DVD and 3DBR combo pack. I agree it totally sucks and it almost as bad as the Avengers digital copy only being included with the mega 3D pack which was $37 CDN on release (I like to have some of my movies in iTunes for mobile watching). At least the pricing is reasonable for Dredd.
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Dr. Video Games 0055 posted:Nope, there is no regular Blu-Ray for Dredd. Just the DVD and 3DBR combo pack. I agree it totally sucks and it almost as bad as the Avengers digital copy only being included with the mega 3D pack which was $37 CDN on release (I like to have some of my movies in iTunes for mobile watching). At least the pricing is reasonable for Dredd. Speaking of The Avengers, I did end up buying the mega 3D pack (even though I don't have 3D), if only because it had the original poster art, which is pretty cool:  As opposed to the normal Blu-ray package, which has this monstrosity:  However, I think at the time they were both the same price (date of release on Amazon), so I just kind of upgraded in order to try and avoid the annoying trend of terrible DVD cover art. Hewlett fucked around with this message at 00:12 on Jan 10, 2013 |
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Marvel's The Avengers Marvel
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Hewlett posted:As opposed to the normal Blu-ray package, which has this monstrosity: "Hmm, Chris Evans is growing a beard for his next movie, so we had to cover his face during the shawerma scene. But now we need him in the studio to shoot a new Avengers poster for the blu-ray! What can we do..."
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Steve Yun posted:"Hmm, Chris Evans is growing a beard for his next movie, so we had to cover his face during the shawerma scene. But now we need him in the studio to shoot a new Avengers poster for the blu-ray! What can we do..." I'm more disturbed by RDJ's tiny head than anything else.
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frumpsnake posted:Yes, of course it's region free (everything from WB is), or US sellers wouldn't be selling a disc that couldn't be played. Two disc. I guess they somehow sent me the old out of print Zodiac release. Awesome.
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Aatrek posted:I made the original Democracy at work!
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Oh, by the way, there's almost certainly going to be a third Star Trek series coming to Blu-ray this year: we're probably looking at a mid-2013 release of the Animated Series.
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rear end Catchcum posted:Two disc. I guess they somehow sent me the old out of print Zodiac release. Awesome. WB took over distribution for Zodiac (and a ton of other titles) from Paramount, but they aren't changing the releases in any way. There was apparently some stock remaining, and for those BDs WB has just placed a new sticker over the older UPC. For new stock created, the artwork, disc, etc. are all identical, they just have that new UPC and a small WB logo actually printed on the cover instead of the old UPC. So it doesn't really matter what you get unless someone truly fucks up and sends you the 1-disc UK one.
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Don't see this posted here yet.. Sony announces 'Mastered in 4K' Blu-ray releases for Spring 2013! But wait, it's meaningless marketing? Come on Sony. Maybe try releasing more than 3-4 catalog titles a year instead of this BS.
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Aatrek posted:Oh, by the way, there's almost certainly going to be a third Star Trek series coming to Blu-ray this year: we're probably looking at a mid-2013 release of the Animated Series. Oh yeah! Obviously, not much work has to be done for it since it came out in the 70s, so it was all shot on film, but seriously, I just can't imagine it really being worth it on blu-ray. The animation company who did the show really was a terrible company. They cut as many corners as they could during the animation process, and in most scenes, the only thing that moves are the characters mouths. Most action is done via silhouettes, or by having a disembodied arm coming up. And there's a ton of mistakes. The only thing that made the show worthwhile was the script writing. It had some pretty decent scripts, especially when you consider what most Saturday morning cartoon fare consists of. And the episode with Mudd is a classic one for all the best reasons. Especially if you like your Kirk/Spock homoeroticism turned up to warp 9.
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