If you wait a few months the DVD will be cheap as chips.
Why isn't Tron out on DVD?
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If you wait a few months the DVD will be cheap as chips.
Director Steven Lisberger recently remastered the film, color correcting it and reframing certain shots for a planned Blu-ray edition. But Disney hasn’t yet set a release date for Lisberger’s new version, and as the studio’s marketing for ‘Tron: Legacy” has become ubiquitous, interest in the original is outstripping supply.
I did some research, you are right it IS hard to get for a decent price, but you can rent it off of netflix or blockbuster apparently.
RAMA
RAMA, no - it is not available on Netflix. (neither DVD nor instant watch)
Not at all. Power Rangers is the American adaptation of the Japanese Super Sentai franchise which began in 1975 and had pretty much settled into its standard formula by the time Tron came out in 1982.
It may be on DVD, but it's a little hard to get a hold of for me. I think the upcoming sequel has made this movie popular. I wanted to rent it from my local library in preparation for the sequel (I haven't seen it in awhile), and there are TWENTY THREE people in line for it. 
I presume, then, that you are not a subscriber. If you were, you would see an option to "Save to DVD Queue," which is only an option for titles that are not currently available. If Netflix had copies of the DVD to rent, it would instead be the normal "Add to DVD Queue," regardless of any wait period. Tron is most certainly not available on Netflix.
Really? Cool!
I wonder if these color corrections will include some of the programs having the wrong color circuit lines on their uniforms. They're supposed to be blue for the good guys, and red for the bad ones. But the original scheme was blue=evil, and yellow=good, and some of this is still in the final film (Clu's uniform has yellow lines, and all of Sark's tank crews are blue).
I liked Clu as yellow (IIRC). That would, I think, link up to what we've seen in the Legacy trailers. At any rate, I'll be spooling up my DVD in the next week or so in anticipation of the new film. The Daft Punk score is ridiculously entertaining. Can't wait!
Just watched it today and I enjoyed it. I always recall watching Tron one day when I was in third grade and home sick from school. I think it was the afternoon or mid-afternoon movie.
Yeah, exactly, it was out on DVD. Then all the copies were shredded, using the same machine that prevents us from enjoying old films that are rebooted/reimagined.
Unless it's a super super super super edition that Amazon's stocking, Ebay might be your friend.
If I hadn't discarded the cover of my own discs, I might well pop them on for sale on Ebay myself. Not sure what I really want to buy with Paypal though that's worth the wait to rebuy the discs in a year's time when they're dirt cheap again.
Tron's DVD version(s) is "out of print." That-is it's no longer being made by it's manufacturer. All of the DVDs for it are "sold" and any copy of it being sold is going to fetch a hefty price.
Amazon has some for sale, from second party persons, for over $100. They're being sold for this price because they're no longer being made and "new copies" are scarce.
On http://dvd.shop.ebay.com/DVDs-Movie...6218&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&gbr=1&_sop=16&_sc=1 similar pricing is found. Cheapest I see is around $40 before shipping.
Tron is an out-of-print DVD which fetches a premium. It is not possible, as it is most movies, to buy this DVD in a store on on Amazon for a "reasonable"/normal price. Which is foolish considering the movie has a sequel coming out next month and you'd think having the first movie out there for people to buy in order to watch before seeing the sequel would make sense.
They will probably rerelease Tron (in its aforementioned 'remastered' form) on DVD and Blu-Ray at the same time that Tron: Legacy is released that way.
Yes. They likely will.
Which does nothing to help people who've never seen the first movie and would like to before the sequel comes out.
Which does nothing to help people who've never seen the first movie and would like to before the sequel comes out.
The logic is apparently, if it was available now people would rent it instead of buying it, and will be more likely to buy it in conjunction with the sequel (so they have the complete set.) I think they are counting on buys based on nostalgic memories, rather than a fresh viewing. Doesn't say much about their opinion of the original.
Yeah, the original is kinda dated, but then again it was set in the 1980s. Shouldn't a movie about a computer world in the 1980s look like it could be made by a computer in the 1980s? The film is still an incredibly unique visual treat. It's sad that Disney thinks today's audiences are too dumb to appreciate it.
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