Home Video (VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, 4k)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6670112

OLDBOY: DELUXE ULTRA 4K LIMITED EDITION [PRE-ORDER]

$50.00

NOTE, THIS IS A PRE-ORDER THAT IS DUE TO BE RELEASED ON OR ABOUT 12/12/23.

THE TWO-DISC LIMITED EDITION OF PARK CHAN-WOOK’S MASTERPIECE INCLUDES OLDBOY ON 4K UHD BLU-RAY, THE MAKING-OF DOCUMENTARY OLD DAYS, AND MORE THAN 10 HOURS OF BONUS MATERIAL

FEATURING:

A 68-PAGE CASEBOUND BOOK.
THREE NEW ESSAYS BY STEPHANIE ZACHAREK, DAVID SIMS AND PHOEBE CHEN. 
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Universal has announced that their horror film The Last Voyage of the Demeter will arrive on digital, Blu-ray and DVD on October 17. The home release of the film boasts over 30 minutes of previously unseen bonus material, including an alternate opening, deleted scenes, and exclusive behind-the-scenes featurettes offering an in-depth look into the film's creation.

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The film failed to make waves at the box office, not helped by the fact it failed to secure a release in the United Kingdom

Well, to be honest, those covers are pretty terrible. The Best Buy steel book comes out the best.

The 'making of' documentary is the same that was released digitally and by all accounts it's rather very good. The only other extra is an audio only track of John Williams score.

This may not be the correct place for this, if so please point me elsewhere.

My other half doesn't have broadband, so I'm looking to write dvds so we can watch then on a dvd player.

To this end I've gotten a copy of ashampoo and downloaded some films (.mkv files) and I'm now looking to copy them onto dvds. Now I know I can't just copy the files on, and the software's asking for mpeg files only.

Has anyone come across - or know how to actually convert and write properly? A guide perhaps?

I know it's old technology, but it's gotta be better than just watching the crap on free tv. TIA.

Edit: many thanks to all for the great - and varied answers. Certainly lots of info to 'chew' on.

Yesterday, I discovered one of my favourite films, Guest House Paradiso, a British comedy film from 1999, got its first-ever Blu-ray release last month in the US. Unfortunately, once you factor in import fees, it works out to £50!!

So, while I sit around waiting for someone in the UK to publish it and for the official The Abyss announcement, share with us what you've picked up this month.

They are:

• Chucky boxset most in 4k (UK)
• The Day of the Locust (US and CA)
• Savage Guns: 4 Classic Westerns (UK, US and CA)
• The Warriors (US)
• The Warriors 4k (US)

Tech specs from blu-ray.com

cross-posted from: https://narwhal.city/posts/50310

The company shipped its first disc ('Beetlejuice') way back in 1998.

https://www.engadget.com/netflix-mails-its-final-dvds-to-subscribers-113557572.html

In the Q&A afterwards, Cameron didn’t announce any disc or streaming release dates but did say he has completed all his work on the 4K UHD Blu-ray, which is indeed real and should be out relatively soon:

“I’ve completed the transfer, all the mastering is done, I think it drops pretty soon like… in a couple of months or something like that. So it’s out of my hands at this point.There’s a lot of added material that they’re sticking in there, and will be available on streaming simultaneously. But I didn’t just want to look at the old HD transfer. I wanted to do it right.”

That's the news. 😁

Yesterday's mammoth leak of Microsoft documentation was eye-opening for all sorts of reasons, not least because it laid bare the company's tentative hardware plans for the back half of this console generation. But the scale of the leak was only part of the surprise. Equally stunning was Microsoft's plan - circa April 2022, at least - to ditch physical media altogether in new Xbox consoles from next year, for what it privately described as an "adorably all digital" future.

Of course, Microsoft has now responded - via a short social media post from Xbox boss Phil Spencer that quickly sought to reframe the leak as outdated without getting into the details of exactly what would now be different. But in just three sentences, the emphasis was clear: Spencer tripled down on what the internet had seen as being "old", adding that "so much had changed" and that Xbox would "share the real plans" when ready.

And thank goodness, right? Because anything else would have been outright confirmation that Xbox was killing discs for good in the next 12 months. And if you're someone who still buys physical copies of games, or uses your console to play older games from past generations, or simply someone who cares about game preservation, Microsoft's outdated plans were a disaster. Such a move would have marked a monumental shift by Microsoft away from disc-based media, to a future where playing games relies solely on unsharable digital licences or ongoing subscription memberships.

It would also be bad for the 4k Blu-ray market as you'd be removing the ability to play them from one of the most ubiquitous UHD disc players in people's homes. And here I was wondering if the last machines in this phase might push the players to include all the fancy HDR and audio formats, when Microsoft were planning on doing the opposite. Now we just don't know what those plans are, it could still be on the cards.

I’m really rather cross that Panasonic has killed off the recordable Blu-ray disc, at least as far as its own production is concerned. They stopped making them in February, citing falling demand for the discs, which they’d started producing back in 2006.

You might be surprised that I'm feeling angry about the demise of what might seem old, clunky and increasingly irrelevant technology. Optical discs have never been particularly convenient. Steve Jobs famously described Blu-ray, the third generation of the technology after CD and DVD, as “a bag of hurt”, mainly thanks to the complex licensing involved. Today we have the cloud and streaming media available anytime, anywhere in the very highest definition. Surely the technology’s ripe for retirement anyway.

The problem is that, despite their drawbacks, Blu-ray discs are still very good at a number of tasks for which there’s no real replacement, and if one of the long term champions of the technology is starting to give up on it, things aren’t looking bright for its future.

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Other digital purchases may cease to exist when servers are taken offline or licensing agreements lapse. Sony for example announced in 2022 that hundreds of movie titles people purchased through the PlayStation store would no longer be accessible for licensing reasons.

You’ll have no such worries with a Blu-ray, making it practically the only way for movie enthusiasts to collect films in HD that won’t go missing or become incomplete overnight. Blu-ray could stay as a valuable and vibrant niche, like vinyl.

Several, “fourth generation” higher definition, higher capacity optical disc replacements have been announced but none has reached production (except for Sony’s archival cartridge system – see below) and none seem likely to. The Holographic Versatile Disc, for example, was touted to offer 6TB of capacity per disc but development fizzled out in the early 2010s.

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My feeling of loss at the demise of BD-R doesn’t start and end with video. Perhaps even more importantly, it’s also a very useful backup medium for the home. BD-R discs can have an estimated 50 year life and they’re a great way of safely keeping reasonably large amounts of data that would be too expensive to store in the cloud or for which you’d like an additional non-cloud backup – priceless family photo collections or home videos for example.

Capacities range from 25GB to 100GB per disc. Compared to alternatives like regular hard drives, which are almost guaranteed to fail, SSDs that may lose their charge, and RAID drives which, while better, are also prone to catastrophic failure, Blu-rays can be very reassuring.

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Meanwhile I think we should look to laser-etched silica glass as a Blu-ray replacement. 5D Optical discs developed by researchers at the University of Southampton offer fast and efficient optical storage that’s 10,000 times denser than Blu-ray and with the prospect of millions of years of life, all on attractive glass discs that hold up to 500TB of data. And discs could potentially be very small. We could send off our archives to be copied onto tiny jewels, or buy films we wanted to keep on them too. How useful, and delightful!

PREVIOUSLY RESTORED IN THE 4K FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE ORIGINAL TV VERSION OF THE FILM IN 1.33:1 RATIO HDR 10 PRESENTATION OF THE FILM NEW DOLBY ATMOS TRACK A Conversation with Director Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg and the Small Screen Richard Matheson: The Writing of Duel Photograph and Poster Gallery Optional English SDH, Spanish, Mandarin, Danish, Finnish, French Canadian, French European, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin American Spanish, Norwegian, and Swedish subtitles for the main feature

Lionsgate has announced a new Clerks Complete Movie Collection, that includes Kevin Smith’s Clerks, Clerks II, and Clerks III on Blu-ray, in a special premium package that is “a 3D miniature of the iconic Quick Stop and RST Video storefronts.” It includes a working VHS return slot to hold your discs, and a “wall that you can vandalize” with cling stickers featuring “featuring in-world business logos and IYKYK jokes from the franchise.” Street date is 11/7 (SRP $129.99). It comes with a booklet and numbered Certificate of Authenticity.

If these are the existing discs, then I'll pass. You're paying for the packaging. If I had the money though, I haven't bought Clerks III yet.

James Cameron will attend a screening of The Abyss on Los Angeles on September 27th. Is this a showing of a new 4K remaster? Fingers crossed...

We all have our favourite films but which one have you owned the most over the years?

I'm not such a big fan now but growing up it was the original Star Wars trilogy.

I had (deep breath):

The first wide-screen VHS release.

The Imperial Star Destroyer Executor VHS metal box set. (The trilogy in wide-screen with lots of extras on more tapes).

The official Maylaisan VideoCD trilogy set.

The UK laserdisc of the special edition trilogy.

The first release on DVD and the Blu-ray Saga set.

I also used to have various bootleg sets of the original trilogy sourced from LaserDiscs and a German copy of the special editions in HD before Blu-rays were released.

Phew!

That's the most varied. All my other films have followed the standard route of VHS, DVD, Blu-ray and 4K.

Anyone else?

EDIT: Forgot about my Laserdisc set!

“Two Thumbs Up, Way Up!” – Siskel & Ebert

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Los Angeles, CA - OH GEEZ!... Shout! Studios proudly presents the seven-time Oscar® nominated crime thriller, FARGO [Collector’s Edition] on 4K UHD + BLU-RAYTM on November 7, 2023. The beloved, twistedly dark comedy will become available on 4K UHD for the first time ever, bringing fans of the cult classic a brand-new way to enjoy the film when they pre-order their copy on the Shout! store.

Written and directed by Joel and Ethan Cohen (No Country for Old Men, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Big Lebowski), this crime thriller features an all-star cast including Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare and more.

In this seven-time Oscar®-nominated film*, things go terribly awry when small-time Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) hires two thugs (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife so he can collect the ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. Once people start dying, the very chipper and very pregnant Police Chief Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand) takes the case. Is she up for this challenge? You betcha.

ShoutFactory.com is offering a DELUXE LIMITED EDITION containing the following items:

Fargo: Collector's Edition 2-disc 4K UHD/Blu-ray set (with slipcover — featuring the original theatrical artwork). A limited edition 18” x 24” rolled poster of original theatrical artwork. A reproduction of the “I ♡ GOLF” notepad as featured in the film (50 pages – 4.1” x 5.8”). A limited edition glass snow globe (3.46” x 3.46” x 3.15”) — made exclusively for this promotion — featuring the iconic woodchipper scene. This will ship in a box with Styrofoam lining

SPECIAL FEATURES

NEW 4K Scan And Restoration Of The Original Camera Negative Supervised By Director Of Photography Roger A. Deakins Audio Commentary With Roger A. Deakins “Minnesota Nice” Featurette Interview With The Coen Brothers And Actor Frances McDormand American Cinematography Article Original Trailer And TV Spot Still Photo Gallery *1996: Best Picture, Actress in a Leading Role (Frances McDormand – winner), Actor in a Supporting Role (William H. Macy), Cinematography, Director, Film Editing, Original Screenplay (winner)

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I have a few disks I want to play, and used to reply on my PS3 but that's not a very happy machine any more. Is there a device worth getting these days?

Finally making its UK Blu-ray debut, Treasured Films is proud to present this satirical shocker from cult auteur Jeff Lieberman (Squirm, Blue Sunshine). Starring Amanda Plummer (Pulp Fiction), it delivers in both gory thrills and sardonic laughs in a much-treasured special edition!

Limited Edition Contents

• Double-walled slipcase with exclusive artwork by Mariano Mattos.
• Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Jon Towlson and Justin Kerswell.
• Webstore exclusive double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Mariano Mattos.
• Webstore exclusive 3 double-sided art cards.

Special Features:

• High-Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation.
• Uncompressed Stereo English audio.
• English SDH subtitles.
• Audio Commentary from Director Jeff Lieberman.
• Audio Commentary from The Hysteria Continues!
• Behind The Mask, a 15-minute video essay by film critic and author Jon Towlson.
• Home Invasion, a 48-minute online interview with Director Jeff Lieberman.
• Behind-the-Scenes footage.
• Trailer.
• Image Gallery.
• Reversible sleeve offering two original artwork choices.

Check the link for bonus features and various store-specific editions.