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I think they’ll release a 4K complete set for the 60th anniversary.
https://www.zavvi.com/blu-ray/goldfinger-zavvi-exclusive-blu-ray-steelbook/13355156.html
It's changed a few times the release date
I agree about Bond 50 feeling incomplete. It does look lovely on the shelf, but I feel like it looks a bit strange having Skyfall and Spectre standing outside of it at this point. I bought steelbooks of those so they're worthwhile for my collection, but all the same nothing entirely matches. A 4K set comprising the 25 films across six actors and their complete runs would certainly satisfy those conditions!
+1 and an even better gift would be to have a little empty space saying Bond 26 coming soon, similar to what they did with the '50' set. One can dream.
Bloody hell, that was fast. The time from the cinema to home media is getting shorter.
It really is. It used to be, on average, about three months, now that seems to be dwindling to two and a half months, if not shorter sometimes. I love to see it and hope it continues.
There really isn’t much of a jump to 8k than can be detected by the human eye. It’s diminishing returns after this point.
https://www.techhive.com/article/3529913/8k-vs-4k-tvs-most-consumers-cannot-tell-the-difference.html
I think what they should do is remaster and release them one by one in UHD, starting with the most recent scans (Spy, Goldfinger), then redo the others as they go. A pack of the iTunes master would be short changing the content and swindling the fans. (inevitable remasters later).
A Pierce Brosnan pack however might be doable straight away with NTTD coming.
It's down for the 20th of December in the UK at the moment
While I'd love that and looked forward to that during the glory days of home video, I fear those days are gone. While some stores still carry 4k, Blu and DVD titles, the studios apparently don't sell enough anymore to try to entice customers with the extras like a die-cast car or coin or whatever to get you to buy the title from them. That and the prices seem to be higher than they were back then as well. That's literally the price we pay for wanting physical media.
I wouldn't go as far as to say it's gone entirely. Different, but still present to an extent. For No Time To Die we so far have, at the very least, the steelbook, the standard release, and the (rather expensive) gift set that comes with a DB5 replica for options. Usually I'd go steelbook by default, but I'm not crazy about the artwork on it this time around. The DB5 is cool but far more than the budget I'd be willing to spend on a single film! So thus far I'm leaning on the standard release unless some alternative exclusive steelbook comes up.
It means they want to produce a product that sells millions with basically an intern doing all the work by himself.
Any product with a collector car, or gun, bonuses, etc. require more than the intern doing all the work. It's a bore to them, they don't care. The market is there, but they aren't interested as the ratio of work needed (ie a couple of weeks with a team) is not what they want for the corporation.
That's why you see many home publishers setting up and doing what the fans wants, selling out all their limited run, which are only limited because they have limited means of marketing and distribution.
It's all a choice. The buyers are still out there, it's just that the majors aren't making offers to them, so no offers = no buyers. It's all on their (the majors) hands.
Great, I'll get it for my wife's birthday 😁
In a way it's a shame that CR and QOS were two of the first Bonds to be released in 4K because they're the only ones permanently stuck in 2K because of their digital intermediates.
All the films from 1962 to 2002 can be scanned in 4K, and SF, SP and NTTD's digital intermediates were finished in 4K.
It's in the normal 2.39:1 aspect ratio.