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Future Blu-Ray Releases

Ar-Pharazon

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I wanted to start a thread about one specific, upcoming BD release, but figured a broader thread would be better.

What got me started is that they're finally releasing Monty Python & The Holy Grail to blu-ray, January 10, 2012. This according to a couple sites (1 | 2).

Other sites talk about pre-order, but don't list a release date.

This has been long overdue. They did Life Of Brian some time ago and I wonder why they didn't do Holy Grail first.

What blu-ray releases are you excited about, and which ones are you thinking "why the hell hasn't this been released yet" about?

I'm thinking mainly about older stuff that likely has to go through a lot of re-mastering, as opposed to new movies that need no work done for HD.
 
The only Blu-Ray on my mind at the moment:

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Available Tuesday.

:techman:
 
If I watch that video at full 1080p will I get vertigo? Maybe I should test the speakers for...

On never mind.
 
I'm looking forward to the Criterion version of Brazil on Blu-Ray. Universal has released it as a bare-bones disc, of course, but that doesn't interest me all that much.
 
I'm psyched about ST:TNG on blu-ray. I thought they would do Enterprise next, since it's already releasable as-is on BR (requires no remastering or any of that crap; it's already aired in native HD on HDNet), but I'll take what I can get.
 
^ Are you one of those concerned about what was redone & what was upscaled?

Lots of discussions about those releases in the TNG forum.
 
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II | Nov. 11, 2011
Farscape | Nov. 15, 2011
Super 8 | Nov. 22, 2011
City of God | Dec. 13, 2011
Adaptation | Jan. 31, 2012
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
I'm psyched about ST:TNG on blu-ray. I thought they would do Enterprise next, since it's already releasable as-is on BR (requires no remastering or any of that crap; it's already aired in native HD on HDNet), but I'll take what I can get.
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Ar-Pharazon said:
^ Are you one of those concerned about what was redone & what was upscaled?
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Concerned? Not really. At this point I don't really care. The quality of the existing TNG releases does not appear to be that great, and *anything* they end up doing to it for Blu-Ray would be an improvement.

Although they're not going to be "upscaling," in the sense of taking standard definition material and simply slapping it on a BR unaltered (upscaling is also what you get if you view the existing TNG discs on a HD set, or view a TNG episode on a cable channel that is otherwise HD). As I understand it, everything we see on the TNG blu-rays will be "native" HD in some form or another.

As for other future Blu-Ray releases (that aren't Trek), here are the ones I really want:

- the IMAX film Everest. It's one of my favorite films of all time, IMAX or no, but unfortunately its existing standard DVD is of rather poor quality.

- the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon.
 
Silent Running - 14/11/11 (UK)
Dark Star - 28/11/11 (UK)
Repo Man - 20/2/12 (UK)

I'm worried about Farscape - I suspect it'll probably be upscaled from the PAL recordings.

I'm not that eager to see the first couple of seasons of TNG in HD - I might be tempted to buy seasons 3, 4, and 5 if the quality is good enough.
 
Harvey said:
I'm looking forward to the Criterion version of Brazil on Blu-Ray. Universal has released it as a bare-bones disc, of course, but that doesn't interest me all that much.
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Yeah, me too. I was very disappointed they didn't put out the 3-movie version like Criterion did for DVD. I have that box set, but when Brazil was announced as barebones for Blu-ray I had ugly flashbacks to what initially turned me off Blu-ray in the first place - the initial decision to release films on BD in barebones editions while if you wanted the extra features you had to buy the DVD. I'm still annoyed that the Blu-ray for Resident Evil Apocalypse omits the blooper reel and I passed on buying the Blu-ray for the 2004 version of Dawn of the Dead because it didn't include the fake newscast featurette that starred the late Richard Biggs.

But they're getting better.

In terms of my wishlist, pretty much every Audrey Hepburn movie I'd like to see on Blu-ray. Now Breakfast at Tiffany's is on Blu-ray I'm hoping the others follow suit. I'd also like to see more Chaplin films on Blu-ray, as well as a BD edition another Criterion release, Pandora's Box. Citizen Kane was on my wishlist until it was released last month.

TV show-wise, the fact they were able to put Space: 1999 and The Prisoner on Blu-ray means there's really no excuse for them not putting at very least the Diana Rigg and Linda Thorson episodes of The Avengers on Blu-ray. There's also no excuse for the first four seasons of the Doctor Who revival not being released on Blu-ray following the successful upconversion of the SD episode The Next Doctor for the Specials Blu-ray set. When they announced the David Tennant Years box set which came out this past week I was hoping that would include a Blu-ray edition, but they wussed out.

Alex
 
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