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I see. Will be intersting to watch the differences with and without narration. Thanks for the info!
Absolutely. The thing looks fabulous. I love the restoration work to be honest.
I have 'em all on BD except AVTAK (DVD ONLY) & MR (not at all, sadly. Here's to us... GRRRRR)... ;)
And you need AVTAK on BR, because on DVD the jalousies on the blimb meeting room flicker all the time, and on BR they almost don´t.
Nothing past speculation and the inevitability of them being released. My money is still on them saving the unveiling for the gear up toward Bond 25 as an extra bit of marketing, much like they did around the time of SF and the rest of the blu-ray releases.
I just have no desire to upgrade to what could be minimal differences and spends countless dollars in doing so when in another 5 years or so the next generation will come out and make that obsolete.
The other bad thing is the special features are less and less frequent on new releases and were one of the main reasons I buy Blus. Not sure there's anything else they can add to Bond special features from the old films I can't already find on YouTube and even when they do add new ones they are seriously underwhelming and almost pointless like the bonus disc in the 50th anniversary Blu set.
Oh yes, they are a vast improvement over the dvd. But as far as I know, they are based on the same Lowry restoration done on the UE DVDs? With improvements and fixes of course. Correct me if I'm wrong though!
I’ve bought a few, and they generally look as good or slightly better than the Blu-rays on my LG C7 OLED with these 2 exceptions:
1) Goldeneye doesn’t look great, but does look much less murky than the Blu-ray. I’ll take the marginal improvement!
2) License to Kill: Something is really up with this version - dark scenes have a bizarre video noise issue that ends up looking like flickering. I advised Apple Support of the issue, so not sure if they’ve done anything.
So, aside from LTK, I’ve been pleased with the handful that I’ve bought so far.
In the Dr. No UE DVD, one of the special features details Lowry's restoration process
Ah! So Lowry did remaster the DVD Ultimate Edition set as well? And then they used the same 4k scans for the blu-ray editions?
All of it is detailed here: http://www.the007dossier.com/007dossier/post/2015/02/09/James-Bond-007-License-to-Restore
I have the Bond 50 Bluray boxset and also the majority of films on digital download. The Bluray are superior as @Creasy47 mentioned you get more information on the disk. Also I have noticed that a few of the digital Bond films I bought are taken from inferior prints of the films. TSWLM and MR were noticeably inferior on the HD download I got compared to my Blurays. Most of my Bond HD downloads were purchased from Amazon Instant Video, so I don't know what the iTunes HD downloads are like in comparison.
Guess iTunes will have some compression with their files. Several films I have in my iTunes library are older ones, so it's difficult to know how much compression there is. The reason for asking is that I've yet to take the step up from my Ultimate DVD Collector's Set. As available space is an issue, I wonder if digital downloads is the way to go – or not.
Afraid I can't help you there, as I'm a solely physical media buyer, but you can probably get the series very cheap now either digitally or via the blu-ray set (think I saw the complete one on sale a couple of weeks back for about $60-70), or of course if you've waited this long, you could wait another year-ish for the UHD 4K versions. Totally up to you.
Totally forgot about the UHD 4K versions! Will probably have to upgrade to a better TV etc. first, but that might be worth it. Then again, $60-70 for a complete BR set seems very interesting…
That's a good point. It's not urgent to upgrade the DVD's either, so waiting a little longer won't be an issue.
Thanks! :-)