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Come on Eon, sort it out!
He may be getting the better deal, but I just want that steel.
In the UK, 4K Bond is exclusive to Apple.
A Bond box set (all 25 films) wouldn’t be presented that way. It would either be a cardboard wallet with 25 slots. Or 3 cases packaged together.
Thats a distinct improvement from the first steelbook at least.
You’ve noticed a lot of faults with the Lowry masters? I’ve noticed a few myself.
Mostly just preference. I find the color timing a bit too on the magenta side on a handful of those transfers. The 007 Dossier site had an article some time back comparing various home video transfers to a 35mm print of DR NO. The Blu-ray looked impecably sharp, but the flesh tones looked a bit magenta by comparison.
I've always felt TLD and GE looked bland on the Lowery versions.
I think the old CBS FOX Home Video VHS and Laserdisc edition of TLD looked the most like the cinematic prints, except in pan and scan.
https://007homemedia.blogspot.com/2021/11/dr-no-1962.html?m=1
Love your website, @MakeshiftPython.
I'm sure you're right, but releases like this give me hope:
I'm not a huge DBZ fan, but that is a beautiful collection.
Yeah, very nice indeed.
The iTunes 4K copy of Dr. No has more contrast and less magenta than the 2008 Blu-Ray, but the darker colors appear to be crushed, at least on my screen. Look at Bond touching Miss Taro's hair. The details on his suit are lost.
Yeah ideally HDR or even Dolby Vision on a physical release would fix some of this. Have to remember that the iTunes 4k copies don't have that added feature.
According to a friend of mine who knows MUCH better than me about the industry, current contracts between studios are now mostly signed on a three-year base (it was five-year in the past), so changes could happen starting with Q3 2023, as the Warner deal took effect in Q3 2020.
And, for the record, the current Blu-ray for Goldeneye is quite problematic. It's obviously based on an older transfer than the rest of the Lowry Digital bunch, and they've applied a ton of DNR and edge enhancement (you can spot this through the halos on any shot with a strong contrast between light and dark areas) to make it look cleaner, similar to what Universal tended to do with their catalog titles in the early HD DVD and Blu-ray days.
The full set with all titles up to Spectre was reissued under the Warner flag around the end of 2020, at least in France. I haven't seen any report that this reissue used new discs or had even changed the logos that play at the beginning from Fox to Warner.
I also remember that the Craig UHD collection had a clause that allowed Fox/Disney to distribute the titles or the sets for a little longer than the regular end of the main distribution contract for all the MGM catalog. It was done to allow Fox to recoup the costs and sell most of the units produced.
The Steelbook edition is typically a repackaging thing. Warner is notorious for it. They had a ton of "Special Editions" that simply bundled the existing disc with some reproduction of the original artwork, a couple of trinkets, and maybe an extra disc with a new-ish documentary, but no new transfer. Otherwise, it's specified in the press release.
So, if Dr. No is a single disc affair, and the extras are exactly the same as in the previous disc, without any new featurette, it's obvious it's still the 2008 disc. There was no egregious defect in the current encoding, so no need to restart it, while a re-encoding isn't a free operation (as there are many things to check and control afterwards). It was also an AVC encoding, which is still the standard, while many Blu-ray discs released around those days were in VC-1 or MPEG-2, which are now basically discontinued for new discs (as they're not as efficient).
It's a reissue of the same disc.
That's kind of disappointing all other big franchises have the 4k treatment already.