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That was not an option this time last year. They were only released individually later and having already waited for years for the likes of OHMSS and TLD unless you wanted to sit it out until they decided at some unspecified point in the future to release them the box set was your only choice.
Yeah well had they also realeased the fact that the box set would be a piss take then I might have done the same. More fool me for being so naive as to think they might make a special effort for the 50th I suppose.
Although given that £100 for 22 Blurays equates to less than a fiver per disc I'm not exactly sure how you saved a ton of cash given that you wouldn't even get them for that now.
Fair enough. We don't benefit from such cheap prices for new discs this side of the pond.
See, now what is mentioned in that link, like the remixed soundtracks, lack of new features and all that, is worth fussing over, and I agree with you and share your umbrage. I have no idea why you were making a mole hill out of the mismatched main menus when entire original soundtracks for the films were altered from their original mono format that were exhaustively mixed by talented men and women in the 60s. Having read that link, I am even more happy that I didn't pick up the Bond 50 set. I can see that some corner cutting and absolutely illogical decisions were made, and all for the $$$ from the pockets of people like you who didn't know ahead of time the deficiencies of the product they were purchasing.
I am more than happy with my two volumes of Connery Blu-rays collecting DN to YOLT and DAF, and if I ever get further Bond films in the high definition format, it shall not be through the lack luster cash cow that is the Bond 50 set. I find it tragically ironic how much UK purchasers got screwed over in comparison to us Yanks, and Bond isn't even our national character. I'm sorry for that, and apologize for teasing you and others in the past over the set, as in light of the new information I have just learned on the set, I understand your frustrations.
Who am I kidding, they didn't give a toss about us.
Exactly. As it has always been. It's called: "Show business" not "Show Show" or "Show Fans" or "Show Appreciation" It's a bottom line for profit business.
Uh, I'm a 'Yank'; how did the UK get screwed over worse? (just curious)?
I see; that really is unfair. I don't know why that is. I'm mostly just wanting the movies anyway though, so it should be satisfactory enough.
That's the UK all over. We pay top whack for everything.
And obviously lets not get started on the way the Everything or Nothing documentary was handled. Basically a massive V sign from on EON to UK fans, not to mention the rest of the world.
I'm unaware of this story (not the documentary of course, I've seen it). Why was it handled badly?
Basically it was streamed for free on a US Netflix type site but in the UK just a very limited cinema release (obviously not for free - nearest cinema to me showing it was Leicester Sq at close to £20 a ticket) and the rest of the world (I think) didn't even get that.
Thank Christ for internet piracy is all I can say.
Neither have I. Ever....ever. ;-)
@TheWizardOfIce, again, here in the US, we got the documentary for free, and all the UK could do was pay to see it in theaters or pay for it on DVD/blu-ray. I wouldn't blame anyone for going to the Internet to watch it.
Well quite.
Obviously I have never seen it myself, given that I wasn't about to pay for it when yanks get it for free and I would never dream of resorting to piracy.
But I'm sure some unscrupulous types did download it illegally. Shocking, positively shocking.
If you have an Amazon Prime account, it's free to watch on the site.
I'm not sure if it's great or not. It looks quite pale and slightly washed out.
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Spy-Who-Loved-Me-Blu-ray/3189/#Screenshots
Looks fine to me. I'd have to see it firsthand or in a comparison shot to a standard edition though, to be sure.
Not to derail the topic of TSWLM or anything, but has anyone here attempted to rip their blurays to create movie files(mkv, mp4, etc.)? I don't have cable so I like to watch the films all the time, but would like to have them on a Harddrive connected to a media player that I have instead of loading the discs all the time. I'm afraid they are going to get scratched eventually. I'm embarrassed to admit that I bought each film in the individual cases, plus I bought the Bond 50 set. I'm a sucker for the cases, but liked the nice books with the 50 set as well. I know it takes a huge amount of storage, but I wouldn't mind getting a 1 or 2 TB harddrive to dedicate to just bond blurays. The other option is to buy the HDX(1080p) versions through VUDU for $2.00 per movie because I already own the discs. Purchasing without owning it would cost ($13.99 a piece, which is out of the question plus I don't want to be using my bandwidth to stream HDX while I'm playing games etc). Either way I will have to buy a bluray disc drive for my computer.
Anyone tried that yet?