One way to confirm this is the case, would be to compare the bluray version to the hd streaming ones (such as on amazon).
Any films where you'd rather have the DVD then Blue-Ray?
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One way to confirm this is the case, would be to compare the bluray version to the hd streaming ones (such as on amazon).
^ Hopefully re-mastered in the sense they started from scratch with original film prints (assuming the live action footage was done on film), so as to get the best possible clarity onto a blu-ray.
I prefer the Blu-Ray because I want the picture to look as good as possible on my television. I do check reviews and will avoid buying some movies if it is a terrible transfer, then wait for a decent release.
As for issues where the Blu-Ray lets you see flaws, that's just how the movie was made. You can see the fishing line that holds up part of the Tardis console in some scenes, it doesn't take away the magic of the show. Seeing how cheap something actually is doesn't really bother me, it's almost part of the charm. A lot of people spent time trying to figure out the best way to make it work. Hell I love the Muppets and you can clearly see the seams in HD on their faces, especially Kermit. But the performance is what matters, anything else is there is help it.
Also Star Wars on Blu-Ray is beautiful, if you have a HDTV you need to get it. Lucas adding crap to the background does get annoying, but the original still shines through it.
As for issues where the Blu-Ray lets you see flaws, that's just how the movie was made. You can see the fishing line that holds up part of the Tardis console in some scenes, it doesn't take away the magic of the show. Seeing how cheap something actually is doesn't really bother me, it's almost part of the charm. A lot of people spent time trying to figure out the best way to make it work. Hell I love the Muppets and you can clearly see the seams in HD on their faces, especially Kermit. But the performance is what matters, anything else is there is help it.
Also Star Wars on Blu-Ray is beautiful, if you have a HDTV you need to get it. Lucas adding crap to the background does get annoying, but the original still shines through it.
Nah, fuck that. I'll stick to the "De-Specialized Editions" until Disney releases the proper theatrical versions in high def.
(And, if they'd like, I'd be happy to see the 1981, 1997, 2004, and 2011 versions made available via seamless branching; along with the various alternate sound mixes from the initial releases).
I know, I know...dream big.
My dream is a Criterion Edition-type release of the original trilogy in their original forms. I hope that Disney realizes that there is a market for it and does something with it, maybe in the buildup to releasing the new movies.
I want a remastered but unedited edition of the OT. I like the clean up they did of the footage. I also like the remastered sound. I like the removal of matte lines and the enhancement of the light sabers and lasers. But I want the original edits.
The added material doesn't bother me at all. I always love when movies have deleted footage put back in. "new" footage is no different.
Like you said, the original story is there and isn't altered by the additional stuff.
There's another case which comes to mind, where I also turned down the bluray version in favor of the dvd version.
3 - There were too many complaints about the picture quality of the bluray transfer.
In the case of tv shows, a few years ago I also turned down the bluray versions of Burn Notice (season 2), 24 (season 7), etc ... after reading numerous complaints about the picture quality.
Complaints about bluray picture quality seem to date back to earlier tv season sets circa 2007-2010.
A few years ago, I was about to completely write off the "early era" of tv on bluray (2007-2010) largely due to my above listed reasons 2 and 3. At the time, I suspected the movie studios may have been going through some "growing pains" in figuring how to produce bluray season sets.
With all that being said, these days there doesn't seem to be many complaints anymore about the picture quality of current tv shows released on bluray. I suspect many (if not almost all) current first-run tv shows are possibly filmed with hd/bluray in mind from the very start.
In the case of older catalog movies, I can live with crappy transfers of stuff I find in the $5 bluray cutout bins. Some $5 blurays with crappy picture quality I have are ones like:
- the first bluray version of the original Total Recall
- the first bluray version of Terminator 1
- the first bluray version of Fifth Element
- the first bluray version of Robocop 1
- etc ...
Yeah, but the Jabba scene added in was terrible, and just didn't work with the footage they originally shot with Jabba as a human (They had to have Han walk OVER his tail and it looked bloody awkward). And all the rest of the scenes they added in are just aliens falling off things and other dumb slapstick.
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Also, stuff like Jedi Rocks, or the new ending to Return of the Jedi overwrites original footage.
I want the version with Sebastian Shaw as Jedi Ghost, or no version. I also want the Sarlacc without a worm in it.
In short, I want to be able to get the Original Trilogy as released for cinemas in the 80s in HD. Would it hurt anyone if they did that?
I want the version with Sebastian Shaw as Jedi Ghost, or no version. I also want the Sarlacc without a worm in it.
In short, I want to be able to get the Original Trilogy as released for cinemas in the 80s in HD. Would it hurt anyone if they did that?
Also having Greedo shoot first changes the tone of Han's entire character, ruining a lot of what made him cool in the first place.
I care about the Greedo/Han thing not because of who actually shoots, but because the revised version is simply badly edited. It doesn't LOOK right. I really don't give a damn who shot first (I never thought Han was particularly 'cool' - I just thought he was an insensitive jackass), I just wanted the scene to look better. 
Same here. Everything I'm buying is Blu-Ray DVD, even though my TV set's a basic older LCD from 2007 (a hand-me-down from my late mother.) The quality on Blu-Ray is better, even for older movies.
This. Although recently I've purchased a few DVD/blu-ray combo packs so I can watch them now, and then whenever I get a blu-ray player I can watch on that format.
Homonyms are fun.
If you all wanted the originals, then you should have brought the original Special Edition normal DVD's that had the original edits as the second DVD.
