I knew they'd charge that much per film. I'll hang onto my blu ray set of the original trilogy for now. Not worth me spending $40 just to get Star Wars and Empire for mobile use. I can wait until I get home.
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'Star Wars: The Digital Movie Collection' Coming to iTunes Friday, April 10
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Looks like this will be never from corporate sources.
Fans have put together their own original cuts though and the Star Wars one these folks have done looks fantastic (compared to the original DVD that was released years ago):
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/to...ed-Edition-HD-V25-MKV-IS-OUT-NOW/topic/12713/
Video and audio format?
Are these 1080p presentations for video? Is it multichannel audio? Are the different resellers offering differing quality streams? For example I find amazon streams to be a lot higher bitrate than others. I'll be curious to see reviews come friday when people can download them to see what format they are in and what the quality is of the streams.
Are these 1080p presentations for video? Is it multichannel audio? Are the different resellers offering differing quality streams? For example I find amazon streams to be a lot higher bitrate than others. I'll be curious to see reviews come friday when people can download them to see what format they are in and what the quality is of the streams.
I already have pretty much every release. I'm interested to see the extras they pack with these, but I'm not really in the mood to buy them all over again especially at that price.
I'm hoping for theatrical releases leading up to TFA. That would be amazing!!
I'm hoping for theatrical releases leading up to TFA. That would be amazing!!
Wikipedia can explain it better than I can.
Later LaserDiscs had digital audio but the video was always analogue.
Wow, that's neat! They actually differed pit depth and length in order to record analog audio and video in a format that was more of a digital nature. Today I learned, LOL.
As someone else already pointed out, laserdisc wasn't digital (in case you weren't already aware). It also wasn't 720p. Laserdisc was 425 lines of resolution (less than DVD's 480).
Being analog vs digital isn't necessarily a *bad* thing by itself, but in the case of laserdisc, DVD was a definite upgrade.
If you want the best quality for the Star Wars movies, the Blu-ray discs are it. These digital download / streaming options should still be quite a bit better than DVD or laserdisc, though.
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Technically, you do. When you stream an iTunes movie, it downloads it into local storage. It lets you start watching it before it has fully downloaded, but it pretty much ends up downloading the entire thing locally. In the "streaming" use case, it treats that local storage as temporary storage and deletes the movie when it needs to use that space for something else.
This is different than how Netflix, for example, works. I believe that VUDU works the same way as Netflix on most/all devices, but I'm not sure if VUDU on my TiVo is smart enough to utilize the TiVo's vast local storage to download the movie to the local storage. The advantage to a "download" approach like Apple's is that it guarantees you that you'll get the best quality that the source has to offer. Whereas, with Netflix, if you have a slow internet connection the picture quality will degrade.
I have these too. Sadly, the resolution is lower, and none of the remastering/cleanup is there. Still, even with the crappy quality reproduction, I agree, the originals are better.
Not that I know of, but here's the version where he gets killed off early. Enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLACxMXBRhM
I'm happy these are gong to be available for those who want them like this, but I'll be sticking to my superior Blu-rays.
I remain convinced that restored pre-special edition releases of the original Star Wars trilogy will get a (re)release at some in the future. It's a pile of money on the table for Disney, I am sure they know that, and we all know Disney like to pick up piles of money.
It's a little patronising to assume that anyone who likes Star Wars doesn't also enjoy other movies. Indeed, in many ways Star Wars is a visual celebration of the history of all cinema.
Amen to that!
Same here they're awesome.
I remain convinced that restored pre-special edition releases of the original Star Wars trilogy will get a (re)release at some in the future. It's a pile of money on the table for Disney, I am sure they know that, and we all know Disney like to pick up piles of money.
It's a little patronising to assume that anyone who likes Star Wars doesn't also enjoy other movies. Indeed, in many ways Star Wars is a visual celebration of the history of all cinema.
Amen to that!
I have the complete set of Japanese Ghibli Blu-rays (22 discs)... hideously expensive but really enjoyable
Same here they're awesome.
Nice! I get to buy the movies again!
(VHS - Original Edition)
(DVD - Original Edition)
(DVD - new and improved editions)
(BR-DVD - Didn't buy them...)
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I am waiting for Howard the Duck to go Enhanced Cinematic Edition to complete my George Lucas Collection.
(VHS - Original Edition)
(DVD - Original Edition)
(DVD - new and improved editions)
(BR-DVD - Didn't buy them...)
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I am waiting for Howard the Duck to go Enhanced Cinematic Edition to complete my George Lucas Collection.
I saw the above "BR-DVD" and just had to respond.
There is no format called BR-DVD (or for that matter, BD-DVD, BRD, BlueRay, Blue-Ray, Blue-ray, BluRay, Bluray, Blu-ray DVD, etc.). The two "official" abbreviations for the Blu-ray Disc format are BD and Blu-ray.
Sorry for the rant. (Phew! Glad to get that off my chest.)
- Joe
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$120 for all the films on iTunes vs. $90 for the bundle on Vudu?
Buy them on Vudu, they will port to iTunes via DMA, buy A New Hope on its own in iTunes, and you will STILL save $10 even though you had to buy ANH twice!
Buy them on Vudu, they will port to iTunes via DMA, buy A New Hope on its own in iTunes, and you will STILL save $10 even though you had to buy ANH twice!
This continuous milking has been my personal reason to boycot this whole series. I’ve hated this practice years ago and I still hate it now. €17 per film, with no qualitative improvement over Blu-ray (may even be worse if the material is compressed), without the original scenes so many customers are asking for (no doubt held back for another release) and even stricter DRM. Aggravating.
Hah! Yeah, I was one of the suckers who had HD-DVD (the player was a present, and I paid no more than $8 for any movie.) I now own 2001: A Space Odyssey on 7 formats:
VHS
Betamax
LaserDisc
CED (a failed competitor to LaserDisc - I bought this one solely to "complete the set.")
HD DVD
Blu-ray
I also have Star Wars on LaserDisc (the very original home-video release,) VHS last-pre-special edition, and VHS Special Edition. I never bought any of the DVD or newer. (I also own Episode 1 on VHS, but that was given by my in-laws for my kid to watch.) I own Empire and Jedi on last-pre-special-edition LaserDisc, plus the same as Star Wars (last-pre-special and Special Edition VHS.)
I remember having the behind-the-scenes movie "From Star Wars to Jedi" on VHS tape when I was younger. Would've liked to see that added as an extra in this. Here's a YouTube version at least: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Xa6CcShAI&list=PLsbImkiM6Zkhc0t1jmPmtX2Be3S-SR3TX
Thank you! I did think that was a little weird when I put that up there.
I just hope they have the Ewok Christmas Special in there somewhere. That film embodies everything that is Star Wars.
I had Star Wars on LaserDisc.
About two years ago I sold my entire LD collection to Half Price Books. My circa 1989 Pioneer LD player was on its last legs and buying a used one to replace it just didn't make any sense (I would have only been delaying the inevitable).- Joe
You're welcome!
I see "BR-DVD" (or similar) appear from time-to-time when someone is attempting to make a reference to Blu-ray Disc. The only explanation I can think of is that the person is unsure if readers know about BD and therefore tie-in the DVD reference so that people will say "Oh, the high-definition video format that looks like a DVD."- Joe