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DVDs & Films Forum - James Bond coming to Blu-Ray - Page 1
Elite
Amazon are showing a pre-release 50th anniversary James Bond blu-ray boxset for release on !st October 2012 for £89.99.
That seems like a mis-price to me, at around £4+ a movie.
I was beginning to think this would never see the light of day, I know that the rights are a tangled mess, but this is a money maker, so I guess they saw sense in the end.
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DVD Description
Collectible box set featuring all 22 James Bond films on Blu-ray disc in one complete offering for the first time.
Collection includes all 22 James Bond feature films from Dr. No to Quantum of Solace and more than 130 hours of bonus features including never-before-seen content from the Bond archives, and more.
One disc of brand new bonus content approximately one hour in length.
9 titles available on Blu-ray for the first time ever: Goldeneye, Octopussy, The Spy Who Loved Me, You Only Live Twice, The Living Daylights, Tomorrow Never Dies, Diamonds are Forever, A View to a Kill and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
This item was edited on Friday, 13th January 2012, 16:00
Reviewer
Having that. And the 1967 Casino Royale on 6th Aug.
UPDATE: Amazon US's price for the same set is $199.99 (marked down from $299.99), which works out without shipping around £129, so the £89.99 may not be a misprice. Although I've already got the Region B Blus already out, I reckon the set would still be worth buying at that price as I'd expect individual releases of the nine outstanding pictures to be going for £14.99 a pop on the day of release, or at the very least a tenner.
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This item was edited on Wednesday, 11th January 2012, 03:35
Elite
I watched some of the recent ITV screenings of the earlier Bond movies on Sky in SD and did a comparison with my dvd copies from the Special Edition series and the detail was better on the ITV broadcast.
I was wondering if ITV broadcast from Blu Ray versions and I must say, I was very impressed at the broadcast quality, even though I was watching in SD.
It made the quality of movies on the pay for Sky movie channels in SD look pants.
Reviewer
ITV wouldn't have been broadcasting from Blu-ray, but they would have been using copies of the master tapes the Blus were authored from. Or at least that's the official line. Apparently as long as the broadcaster has the rights package for a movie they can run it in from any source they have to hand - movie print, digital file, Blu-ray, DVD or even VHS.
J Mark Oates
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A lot of Blu-ray releases which contain multiple films are a lot cheaper than you'd expect, simply because they are trying to tempt all the people who already have them on DVD (which lets face it, is probably nearly everyone who would buy it on Blu-ray) to double dip.
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Elite
this boxset even has its own website now
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& I still think four quid a movie is cheap for blu-ray
Elite
When I ordered my niece the Harry Potter DVD set for her Christmas present, the price went up before it shipped. Amazon honored the price I pre-ordered at though, so might be worth getting in an order early in case it does change later on.
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