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Are the DVD reissues basically the same Bond remastered DVDs?

lewisblakelewisblake
edited October 2012 in Bond Movies Posts: 188
So the Bond movies have finally been reissued and are back on the shelves. So is it just the covers that have been changed?
Are the new DVDs basically the same as the Bond Remastered DVDs but with a different cover?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Russia-Love-DVD-Sean-Connery/dp/B008OEYB90/ref=sr_1_5?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1349837261&sr=1-5


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bond-Remastered-Russia-Love-1-disc/dp/B000MR9F16/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1349837324&sr=1-1

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  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
    Posts: 5,745
    They should be the same. The new covers come with the new Blu-Ray releases, and they were reprinted for an updated DVD selection as well.
  • 00Beast00Beast
    Posts: 4,762
    JWESTBROOK wrote:
    They should be the same. The new covers come with the new Blu-Ray releases, and they were reprinted for an updated DVD selection as well.

    No need for an update then! Looks like I'll be keeping my mixed collection of Special 007 Editions and Ultimate Editions!
  • 001001
    Posts: 1,575
    I would say that they are.
  • Monsieur_AubergineMonsieur_Aubergine Top of the Eiffel Tower with a fly in my soup!
    Posts: 642
    Yes they are, and 1 disc too, with hugely limitied features. Booooo! :-(
  • boldfingerboldfinger
    Posts: 5,767
    Long live the SE that are in my shelf!
  • lewisblakelewisblake
    Posts: 188
    should I buy a bond remastered off line as I have been doing then do you think - or buy the new reissued cover copies off the shelf?
  • Monsieur_AubergineMonsieur_Aubergine Top of the Eiffel Tower with a fly in my soup!
    Posts: 642
    These are all now down to around £3.70 each on Amazon ... they will be in the 99p bin soon at all bad petrol stations! - where is the desirability this year and what a year to mess up. The Goldeneye DVD states - Frame by Frame Restoration as a feature (ahem 2006 anyone?) and sports 1 commentary. Great. =D>
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
    Posts: 13,999
    I was in HMV today (when aren't I), and they had the DVD reissues for £3 each.
  • Monsieur_AubergineMonsieur_Aubergine Top of the Eiffel Tower with a fly in my soup!
    edited October 2012 Posts: 642
    I think it's quite obvious that MGM are simply using the back catalogue to boost awareness for Skyfall which is great in some respects in terms of box office potential but I cant help but feel it is downgrading our beloved franchise and cheapening the quality of the series. This should have been a solid gold year. :((
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
    edited October 2012 Posts: 13,999
    Monsieur_Aubergine wrote:
    I think it's quite obvious that MGM are simply using the back catalogue to boost awareness for Skyfall which is great in some respects in terms of box office potential but I cant help but feel it is downgrading our beloved franchise and cheapening the quality of the series. This should have been a solid gold year. :((

    Too true. They are boosting awareness with as little effort possible. These are now the 3rd re-issue of the UE DVD's. :-w
  • lewisblakelewisblake
    Posts: 188
    MajorDSmythe wrote:
    I was in HMV today (when aren't I), and they had the DVD reissues for £3 each.

    same in my HMV - I liked the MGM Bond Remastered covers better - and indeed have rebought the films up till Live and Let Die in the Bond remastered editions - today I did buy the 3£ copy of the newly issued Live and Let Die; mainly because I want to watch the film this friday and couldnt get a copy in time, and partly because I want to see how these new 'reissues compare' lol
  • lewisblakelewisblake
    edited October 2012 Posts: 188
    OK - so like I said I bought one of the reissued versions of the James Bond DVDs - namely Live and Let Die - because I didn't have time to get another version from Amazon,

    http://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/collecting_dvd_uk_2012.php3?s=collecting&id=03258&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

    Is it just me, or is the remastering on Live and Let Die a tad dodgy in places? Or maybe it's this reissue DVD that's dodgy?? the level of lighting - and therefore light cast on an actor -seems to change at times. Maybe it is because they had alot to clean up and remaster with Live and Let Die???
    I think I'll go on amazon again and but my trusted releases of these DVDs lol =
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bond-Remastered-Live-And-1-disc/dp/B000MR9F3O/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1350001962&sr=8-3
  • UlyssesGamma_HoseUlyssesGamma_Hose
    Posts: 73
    The covers for these new releases are APPALLING. Check out Dalton on the Licence to Kill box - he's been photoshopped beyond all recognition.
  • lewisblakelewisblake
    Posts: 188
    UlyssesGamma_Hose wrote:
    The covers for these new releases are APPALLING. Check out Dalton on the Licence to Kill box - he's been photoshopped beyond all recognition.

    Funny you should say that - has anyone seen the collectible Bond covers of GQ magazine? I noticed all of them were fine except for Dalton who clearly looks like his head has been photoshopped onto some other chaps body lol

    http://www.soletopia.com/2012/10/50-years-of-bond-gqs-james-bond-special/



  • UlyssesGamma_HoseUlyssesGamma_Hose
    Posts: 73
    lewisblake wrote:
    UlyssesGamma_Hose wrote:
    The covers for these new releases are APPALLING. Check out Dalton on the Licence to Kill box - he's been photoshopped beyond all recognition.

    Funny you should say that - has anyone seen the collectible Bond covers of GQ magazine? I noticed all of them were fine except for Dalton who clearly looks like his head has been photoshopped onto some other chaps body lol

    http://www.soletopia.com/2012/10/50-years-of-bond-gqs-james-bond-special/



    Oh dear. That looks extremely fake.
  • MrBondMrBond Station S
    Posts: 2,044
    lewisblake wrote:
    UlyssesGamma_Hose wrote:
    The covers for these new releases are APPALLING. Check out Dalton on the Licence to Kill box - he's been photoshopped beyond all recognition.

    Funny you should say that - has anyone seen the collectible Bond covers of GQ magazine? I noticed all of them were fine except for Dalton who clearly looks like his head has been photoshopped onto some other chaps body lol

    http://www.soletopia.com/2012/10/50-years-of-bond-gqs-james-bond-special/



    Is it possible for someone to photoshop away the text, because i like those pictures and would be grateful to have them as a wallpaper!
  • UlyssesGamma_HoseUlyssesGamma_Hose
    Posts: 73
    Actually, I just saw The Spy Who Loved Me cover, and it's simply one of the worst DVD covers ever made.

    You have to check this out. Thanks to the wonders of photoshop, Roger Moore now has a face made of plastercine and bushy ginger eyebrows. Unbelievably awful.
  • lewisblakelewisblake
    Posts: 188
    someone put up a link to that cover lol :P
  • rightsmartdanrightsmartdan
    Posts: 38
    http://www.sainsburysentertainment.co.uk/media/ProductImage/largeImage/ProductImage-7471676.jpg
  • thenoisydrumthenoisydrum
    Posts: 69
    Why oh why oh why will they not reinstate the original artwork?
  • 002002
    Posts: 581
    i have to say that The Blu Rays are exactly the same as The 2006 Ultimate Issues
    having spent $130 on the boxset which the only thing they changed was the menu
    of Casino Royale so it goes with the other dvds (Dr No- Die Another Day) except they messed up by not fixing QOS with the menu

  • PlykshowPlykshow Kent, United Kingdom
    Posts: 35
    You're right it is The Spy Who Loved Me with the weird Roger Moore image, but thats the wrong link. Its the photoshopped picture on the back...

    http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81qavwhSoNL._SL1500_.jpg
  • ThunderballThunderball playing Chemin de Fer in a casino, downing Vespers
    edited September 2013 Posts: 815
    I have the Ultimate Edition DVDs...so I'm not missing much?

    I honestly don't care if I don't own first 20 Bond movies are on blu-ray.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
    Posts: 9,117
    Thunderball wrote:
    I have the Ultimate Edition DVDs...so I'm not missing much?

    I honestly don't care if I don't own first 20 Bond movies are on blu-ray.

    So why buy the DVDs then? Why not stick with VHS?
  • ThunderballThunderball playing Chemin de Fer in a casino, downing Vespers
    Posts: 815
    TheWizardOfIce wrote:
    Thunderball wrote:
    I have the Ultimate Edition DVDs...so I'm not missing much?

    I honestly don't care if I don't own first 20 Bond movies are on blu-ray.

    So why buy the DVDs then? Why not stick with VHS?

    Because the picture/sound is better, because I only owned a couple Bond movies on VHS at the time of DVDs coming around, and because of the special features. What I was saying is since I already own every Bond movie (except Skyfall) on DVD, it's a waste to buy all the blu-rays, at least for now.

  • RC7RC7
    Posts: 10,512
    Thunderball wrote:
    TheWizardOfIce wrote:
    Thunderball wrote:
    I have the Ultimate Edition DVDs...so I'm not missing much?

    I honestly don't care if I don't own first 20 Bond movies are on blu-ray.

    So why buy the DVDs then? Why not stick with VHS?

    Because the picture/sound is better, because I only owned a couple Bond movies on VHS at the time of DVDs coming around, and because of the special features. What I was saying is since I already own every Bond movie (except Skyfall) on DVD, it's a waste to buy all the blu-rays, at least for now.

    Unless you take into account the reason you bought the DVD's. Nothing quite beats SF on Blu-Ray, it's a beauty.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
    Posts: 9,117
    Thunderball wrote:
    TheWizardOfIce wrote:
    Thunderball wrote:
    I have the Ultimate Edition DVDs...so I'm not missing much?

    I honestly don't care if I don't own first 20 Bond movies are on blu-ray.

    So why buy the DVDs then? Why not stick with VHS?

    Because the picture/sound is better, because I only owned a couple Bond movies on VHS at the time of DVDs coming around, and because of the special features. What I was saying is since I already own every Bond movie (except Skyfall) on DVD, it's a waste to buy all the blu-rays, at least for now.

    There's nothing you can say to this logic.
  • ThunderballThunderball playing Chemin de Fer in a casino, downing Vespers
    Posts: 815
    RC7 wrote:

    Unless you take into account the reason you bought the DVD's. Nothing quite beats SF on Blu-Ray, it's a beauty. [/quote]

    I plan on getting SF on blu-ray. Probably QOS and CR too (I have the barebones QOS DVD....barely any special features.)

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