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[sharpshooter]

The Goldfinger Blu-ray screenshots look great.

[DLibrasnow]

Goldfinger looks great. What a contrast in picture quality to the Special Edition DVD's. Man, it wasn't all that long ago that I can remember getting those SE's home when they were the state of the art.

The Special Edition DVDs of 1999 and 2000 were hailed at the time for setting a new benchmark in quality and special features. This was in the days when most DVDs just featured some fluff promotional Making of feature, a trailer and some cast and crew bios.

I am looking forward to diving into the Goldfinger and Moonraker Blu-rays later this month.

[dutch_pepper]

Review of Quantum of Solace Blu-Ray:

click here!

[Qwerty]

Cover Art Revealed For New James Bond Blu-ray Discs

'The Man with the Golden Gun' and 'Licence to Kill'

[scaramunga]

Thanks for posting the review links to Goldfinger and Quantum of Solace!!!

Great covers for LTK and Golden Gun too. I'm looking forward to those 2 in May!

Edited by scaramunga, 13 March 2009 - 09:49 PM.

[DamnCoffee]

OMFG! I imported the Goldfinger screenshots onto my PS3! ING HELL!
Look at the shot of Goldfinger standing over the slab of gold!

[DLibrasnow]

OMFG! I imported the Goldfinger screenshots onto my PS3! ING HELL!
Look at the shot of Goldfinger standing over the slab of gold!

I agree

Is it March 24 yet?

[scaramunga]

I read on another Bond site (MI6) that Quantum of Solace may be packaged with License To Kill and The Man With the Golden Gun in May. The article states that LTK and Golden Gun have not sold as well on DVD. Interesting if true. I was hoping for Goldeneye or Diamonds Are Forever in May along with the other 2. It's ok though. There's been quite a run on Bond films on blu ray to buy lately...


http://www.mi6.co.uk...d...=mi6&s=news

[mister-white]

I'm hoping that maybe OHMSS might be the third May title, and is just unannounced currently. It would make sense, seeing as it's finally getting an individual DVD release on the 24th, but without a Blu-ray.

Also, for those interested, back covers for the new Blu-ray's has been revealed. Haven't been able to find QoS, though. But here's the links:

Goldfinger
Moonraker
TWINE
Collection
NSNA

And note how Moonraker still seems to run about 5 minutes or so short. It should be around 126 or 127, not 121, a problem that appeared on the previous Ultimate Edition's)

Edited by mister-white, 15 March 2009 - 03:01 AM.

[DamnCoffee]

I WANT a UK release for Never Say Never Again!

[singleentendre]

I read on another Bond site (MI6) that Quantum of Solace may be packaged with License To Kill and The Man With the Golden Gun in May.

This doesn't seem that smart of a move. QoS appeals to the casual Bond fans who may have just picked up on the franchise, but TMWTGG and LTK I really don't see attracting anyone but true Bond lovers. I understand slipping one less popular movie in with a set of 3 so it sells, but two?
It would make more sense for them to package QoS with Goldeneye (or Tomorrow Never Dies) and any one of Moore or Connery's more popular movies.

I might be missing something here though, I'm not sure what exactly is the perfect formula for a boxset, but this really doesn't seem to be it.

[DLibrasnow]

I WANT a UK release for Never Say Never Again!

With any luck the Region A release is a region-free release

[MarkA]

With any luck the Region A release is a region-free release

I very much doubt it will be. All the American Bond's are strictly region A. Where as all the European Bond's are region A,B,C, go figure. That's why I have a Blu-ray player chipped for multi-region. The only way to go.

Edited by MarkA, 15 March 2009 - 11:30 PM.

[sthgilyadgnivileht]

Havnt had much time to fully investigate blue ray. Does anyone know if a UK blue ray disc is transfered at the correct speed, like a region one NTSC DVD or is it the same as a region two PAL system and transfered faster. I don't want to buy UK releases unless they play the correct speed!

[Shaun Forever]

I WANT a UK release for Never Say Never Again!

Same here, was looking forward to this one, heard it was being released close to the QOS Blu Ray, so went to pre-order it at the weekend, and could not find it.

Now I know why, it's US only for now.

[DamnCoffee]

It's a british franchise! It SHOULD be released in britain!

[Blodskur]

Havnt had much time to fully investigate blue ray. Does anyone know if a UK blue ray disc is transfered at the correct speed, like a region one NTSC DVD or is it the same as a region two PAL system and transfered faster. I don't want to buy UK releases unless they play the correct speed!

They are indeed at their original 24 frames per second. You'll just need a Blu-ray Disc player that is capable at outputting 1080/24 and a HDTV that can accept and display 24P. Then you can finally enjoy the films without the PAL 4% speed up or the NTSC telecine judder that Americans have had with their DVDs of films over the years. Lovely jubbley.

Edited by Blodskur, 17 March 2009 - 08:46 PM.

[sthgilyadgnivileht]

Havnt had much time to fully investigate blue ray. Does anyone know if a UK blue ray disc is transfered at the correct speed, like a region one NTSC DVD or is it the same as a region two PAL system and transfered faster. I don't want to buy UK releases unless they play the correct speed!

They are indeed at their original 24 frames per second. You'll just need a Blu-ray Disc player that is capable at outputting 1080/24 and a HDTV that can accept and display 24P. Then you can finally enjoy the films without the PAL 4% speed up or the NTSC telecine judder that Americans have had with their DVDs of films over the years. Lovely jubbley.

Cheers for that info. No more importing NTSC for me when I get Blue Ray. Amazing!

[Loomis]

How come fullscreen editions of the Bonds aren't available on Blu-ray in the States the way they are on DVD?

[tdalton]

How come fullscreen editions of the Bonds aren't available on Blu-ray in the States the way they are on DVD?

If I understand it correctly, it's because the HD transfer of the films on Blu-ray is always done in the original aspect ratio to provide the best picture quality. I don't believe that the Blu-ray manufacturers use the 4:3 standard full screen ratio because it defeats the purpose of the HD transfer in the first place, which is generally 16:9 (not always, but that's one of the more common ratios).

[DLibrasnow]

How come fullscreen editions of the Bonds aren't available on Blu-ray in the States the way they are on DVD?

If I understand it correctly, it's because the HD transfer of the films on Blu-ray is always done in the original aspect ratio to provide the best picture quality. I don't believe that the Blu-ray manufacturers use the 4:3 standard full screen ratio because it defeats the purpose of the HD transfer in the first place, which is generally 16:9 (not always, but that's one of the more common ratios).

All the HDTVs I have come across are widescreen.

If you had a fullscreen Blu-ray you would have black bars on either side of the picture.

[Blodskur]

There are barely any Blu-ray Discs that are fullscreen a.k.a pan and scan or the widescreen version tilt and scan because the whole reason people are paying extra is to have better quality video, sound and a more cinema like experience. If the studios decide to cater to people that want their television screen to have the picture filling it up without regards to the original aspect ratio, then they've just lost most of the potential sales and will likely suffer a online backlash.

Why would I pay £16 to watch a film with image missing that doesn't reflect what the director wanted me to see? Just buying a full screen film sends the studios a message that you'd rather "see the black bars go away" than learn about how they're preserving the film's original shape. That, I think is a shame for the customers, who may simply be uneducated in what the black bars really do, and for the film makers, because they can't show people their films as they're meant to be seen.

Blu-ray Discs are natively 16:9, so any 4:3 films, like Pinocchio, will have black bars on the left and right.

An example of what fullscreen does: http://en.wikipedia....n7BridesPan.gif

Edited by Blodskur, 17 March 2009 - 11:40 PM.

[sthgilyadgnivileht]

Why would I pay £16 to watch a film with image missing that doesn't reflect what the director wanted me to see?

Agreed. For too long IMO we have been cheated by the video industry with substandard transfers, poorly pan and scan work, incorrect framing etc etc. Not to mention my pet hate of the PAL colour system speeding up the film, so the title songs sound in the wrong pitch and all the actors voices are a notch higher than real life. In my mind you would not go to the cinema and put up with such things, so why should we when we buy a film. Glad we finally have a format that does justice to the efforts of film makers.

Edited by sthgilyadgnivileht, 18 March 2009 - 12:02 AM.

[Turn]

Less than a week to go. I'm counting down the days. I even look forward to the Sunday paper to see the display ads.

[tdalton]

Less than a week to go. I'm counting down the days. I even look forward to the Sunday paper to see the display ads.

I can't wait either. At least the wait now is much shorter than it used to be. If I remember correctly, DAD came out in either late May or early June of the following year, roughly six months after its theatrical release. At least now we're only waiting roughly 3 or 4 months with new releases. But it's still hard to wait for great films like QoS to finally arrive.

[oatesy]

It looks like Oz has got some interesting releases on Blu-Ray today. As well as the expected QOS, GF, MR and TWINE they have also got TMWTGG and LTK expected in May elsewhere and on top of that DAF, TSWLM and GE

http://www.ezydvd.co...p;q=007 blu-ray

I've got TSWLM on order from this site. Lets see if it turns up...

[[dark]]

I'm 99.9% certain that the listings for GoldenEye, The Spy Who Loved Me and Diamonds Are Forever are erroneous, but I can confirm that Australia has The Man with the Golden Gun and Licence to Kill.

[Professor Dent]

How come fullscreen editions of the Bonds aren't available on Blu-ray in the States the way they are on DVD?

As with HD-DVD when they were out, Blu-ray's present the movie in its original aspect ratio so there are no chopped-up pan & scan versions of the movies out there. Besides, watching a Blu-ray on an old 4:3 square TV would be a lot like listening to the Beatles without earmuffs.

[jaguar007]

********NEWS FLASH!**************************


According to Best Buy, next Tuesday there will be a box set of QoS along with TMWTGG and LTK!!!

I guess I won't have to wait for May for those two film! Boy is my credit card going to get a work out on Tuesday!

http://www.bestbuy.c...k...&id=1956948

[mister-white]

Looks like Best Buy will have QoS, LtK and TMWTGG as a boxset exclusive until May. Here's the Canadian version, which provides artwork: http://www.bestbuy.c...amp;catid=24101

Edited by mister-white, 19 March 2009 - 02:28 AM.