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Kubrick and Hitchcock shot in this way. Kubrick did it for TV so that at least his films could be presented in some kind of acceptable way when they made their way to TV. Having said that there is a lot of contention over some of his films to which was the intended or preferable aspect ratio. The Shining in open matte 4:3 is a very different film to watching it in 1.85:1 masked.
This is an interesting article on Kubrick's aspect ratios.
https://www.alternateending.com/blog/kubrick-and-his-ratios
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Spy-Who-Loved-Me-Blu-ray/61669/
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Spy-Who-Loved-Me-Blu-ray/142078/
i've bought many german release blus and the packaging on those tends to be of a higher quality vs the uk/usa equivalents
https://www.mi6-hq.com/news/mgm-ditches-fox-as-their-home-entertainment-partner-200604
Well, dang. I gave away my DVD of it.
https://007homemedia.blogspot.com/2019/12/you-only-live-twice.html
The differences are staggering.
The iTunes downloads will resemble the colors of the 4K version instead of the blu-ray. For example years ago I downloaded a copy of Jaws which had the same coloring as the blu-ray. Universal has just released a remastered 4K disc, thus the iTunes version was upgraded based on the 4K version. Because of that, I deleted the download file of the movie on my computer so I could download the newer file based on the 4K. Here's a comparison of the coloring of Jaws between DVD, blu-ray, and 4K.
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film9/blu-ray_review_126/jaws_4K_UHD_blu-ray.htm
That 4K version of Jaws looks really incredible!
I hope there will be a deluxe 4k bluray collection of the Bondfilms. With the EON docu added en maybe a couple of the old BBC interviews and that long TSWLM docu.
Thanks, @MakeshiftPython – that's very interesting (those Jaws 4K screenshots look great!). From screenshots I've seen here and elsewhere, I find the colours in the 4K iTunes releases of the Bond films more pleasing to look at than the Blu-ray releases. Even though the picture quality won't be 4K, having a digital copy with matching colours will be a better option for me, than to look at buying a Blu-ray collection.
Thanks, didn't know that! 4K is out of the question for me yet, but if a 4K collection of all the films (with original sound mixes preferably) hits the market at some point, I might have to give it another thought.
https://007homemedia.blogspot.com/2019/10/home-media-comparisons-of-dr-no-1962.html
I was originally going to start adding UE DVD caps for this, but the caps I've taken are exactly like the blu-ray. There's virtually no difference between the two other than an improvement in resolution, whereas YOLT which looked very different between UE DVD and the Blu-ray in coloring. For something like that, I'm gonna start doing caps on DAF pretty soon because the UE DVD for that film was just as different from the blu-ray as YOLT's was.
https://www.blu-ray.com/digital/Dr-No-Digital/9171/
Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 - ugh!
Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 - ugh!
Love your website, BTW.
I agree. I was pretty happy with how complete the Bond 50 set felt - that is, to have fifty years of Bond in one box. The next best feeling will be to upgrade to 4K and have from Connery to Craig all together. Then I will likely just switch to stand alone releases for subsequent films.
Then again, I tell myself after every Bond box set that this will be the last one I buy.
In this case, it would be the last set I ever buy. The Bond 50 set was great, but it had one flaw: It didn't feature Craig's complete run. So if a 4K set comes out with every film from DN to NTTD, that would pretty much be it for me. I would never feel the need for another Bond film set after that. When a new actor gets his run, I would only buy the individual films to stand alongside the boxed set.
The closest that ever happened was with the UE DVDs, which all had complete films with Craig's predecessors, but were split into four box sets and not even in chronological order. The Bond 50 set was at least unique for its time because it included every Bond film up to that point.
The Bond 50 set had one flaw? Issues with colour timing, a few of the titles sequences were distorted (if you look at Moonraker the moon has become some weird oval shape), some strange added sound effects on 5.1 remixes (they completely ruined the sound mix in OHMSS for the Gumbold Safe Cracking scene), not all the films had their original soundtrack included - this set was far from a definitive collection.
I was only speaking in terms of having all films in one bundle, and in the case of the Bond 50 set it had an incomplete Craig run. All the flaws you point out go without saying, because there's been issues with every home video release. I doubt we'll ever get THE definitive set that fixes every flaw.
On the last point, the blu-rays, at least in North America, have retained all the original sound mixes as optional. It was the UE DVDs that were missing sound mixes, due to the limited amount of space being taken up by film commentaries, notably LALD and TSWLM.
The UK Bond 50 Bond blu-ray set certainly does not have all the original mixes.
I'm one of those fans who went from various versions of the VHS to converting to DVD because of the features and upgraded presentation to films then to UEs, which took it up a notch to Blu, taking it up another notch. I can justify spending my money on each at the time and won't for 4k.
I'd really shudder to think the price of a complete 4k set would come to. I think Blu is my limit for now. To think one day 4k could be replaced by the next generation format another decade down the road would also make it expendable. Then again, physical media could also be dead by then anyway for all streaming anyway, so who knows?