Blu-Ray Best Of The Best - for discussing releases only

[Lyris]

Will repost from the Futurama thread:

From the look I've taken, the BD looks *flawless*. No wrinkles around lines, no compression artefacts, nothing. It looks like they've even dithered the coloured gradients to stop banding artefacts from appearing. Seems like a first-rate job.

[SuperBeatBoy]

Does anyone know if all the discs on the battle Royale set are region free? I have a friend who is quite interested in getting it but has a US PS3.

[Concrete donkey]

Does anyone know if all the discs on the battle Royale set are region free? I have a friend who is quite interested in getting it but has a US PS3.

I have the Battle Royale set and a US PS3. All the discs are region free so to speak but they're not all Blu-Rays. The special feature disc is a PAL DVD and will not work on a US PS3 but will work on any standard DVD player.

[JP]

Just for you Neil...

As has been expected for months now, the release of Star Wars on blu-ray was announced at CES today.

Pre-order Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-ray Now!

January 6, 2011

The most anticipated Blu-ray release ever -- the Star Wars Saga -- emerges from light speed this September 2011. For the first time, all six of George Lucas' epic films (Episodes I-VI) are united in one complete set. Fans worldwide are able to pre-order now with online retailers.

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will release Star Wars in three distinct sets to meet the needs of every Star Wars fan:

? Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-ray (9-disc Set includes all six films)
? Star Wars: Prequel Blu-ray Trilogy (3-disc set includes Episodes I-III)
? Star Wars: Original Blu-ray Trilogy (3-disc set includes Episodes IV-VI)

Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-ray will feature all six live-action Star Wars feature films utilizing the highest possible picture and audio presentation, along with three additional discs and more than 30 hours of extensive special features including never-before-seen deleted and alternate scenes, an exploration of the exclusive Star Wars archives, and much more.

Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-ray will be available for $139.99 US/$179.99 CAN and the Star Wars: Trilogy Sets for $69.99 US/89.99 CAN. Pricing for each set will vary by international territory.

Flanked by a legion of his finest Imperial stormtroopers, Darth Vader himself joined Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment President Mike Dunn at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to announce the release, vowing "The forces of the Empire will be at your disposal to assure the success of this endeavor."

"The Star Wars Saga is the most anticipated Blu-ray collection since the launch of the high-def format," Dunn said. "The epic franchise pioneered sound and visual presentation in theaters and is perfectly suited to do it again in the home, with a viewing experience only possible with Blu-ray."

"With all six episodes available for the first time in one collection, this is a great way for families and home audiences to experience the complete Saga from start to finish," said Doug Yates, Vice President of Marketing, Online, Distribution, Lucasfilm Ltd. "And with the quality of high-definition, Blu-ray provides the most immersive home experience possible."

"The Star Wars franchise has been the most anticipated Blu-ray release by Amazon's customers," said Bill Carr, Vice President of Music and Video at Amazon.com. "We think that Star Wars will be incredibly popular with our customers, and we expect pre-orders to be very strong."

Amazon.co.uk have Star Wars: The Complete Saga available to pre-order for ?69:99 which seems a decent price

[Dogg Thang]

Sonic the Hedgehog of the movie world.

[SuperBeatBoy]

Does the complete saga contain the original trilogy as they should be?

[Dogg Thang]

Apparently not.

[SuperBeatBoy]

Apparently not.

Bah!!! Lucky I still have my tapes and DVDs.

[Dogg Thang]

Lucas sent men round to your house in 2004 and inserted Hayden Christensen into your old RotJ VHS.

[SuperBeatBoy]

NOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooo!!!!

[Lyris]

Glad I can finally give the Star Wars movies a decent watch. I've glanced at the first on DVD, but only on a TV where you don't give it full attention. And I've held off on watching them on the big screen because of a lack of BD. Bring 'em on...

[anephric]

I'd be excited if it was Adywan's Revisiteds in 1080p. Otherwise, I really couldn't care less.

[Daragon]

I'd be very interested to see how they fare on blu-ray. Given that my PS3 at least does a VERY good job of upscaling the remastered DVDs I have to question how much of an improvement on picture quality I'd actually see.

I just hope this is done properly and not turn out to be the damp squib that was the LOTR releases.

Really don't want to be watching them in letterbox mode again either

[Matt]

"Letterbox mode"?

[Lyris]

I'd be very interested to see how they fare on blu-ray. Given that my PS3 at least does a VERY good job of upscaling the remastered DVDs I have to question how much of an improvement on picture quality I'd actually see.

Huge difference. The Star Wars DVDs (or what I saw of them) were certainly some of the better SD DVDs around.

Weren't the original cuts of the films released from old LD masters on Letterboxed, rather than Anamorphic DVD?

This is another reason I haven't seen the films until now. "Which version do we watch? This one, that one, oh screw it, let's just watch one of the many other movies out there."