Saturday, March 27, 2010

Just arrived...

8:35 PM / Blu-ray / DVD / Comments4 Comments

DVD

SPOOKS: SEASON SIX (DVD, Contender, Region 2, UK)

The one season of SPOOKS that I don't own a copy of (I have review copies of 1-5 and recorded 7-8 off Freeview), nicely discounted to under a tenner at Zavvi, who still appear to have a healthy online presence despite having gone into administration over a year ago.

BD

THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1978) (BD, Warner, Region ABC, USA)

Those still smarting from the disappointment that is the BD release of the 2001-2003 Peter Jackson trilogy will no doubt be intrigued to hear that the original 1978 animated version looks very good.

In other news, Warner has just asked Blu-ray.com to pull their damning captures of the trilogy BDs and replace them with low resolution, pre-approved Warner images. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Either way, it speaks volumes about the company's attitude towards quality standards.

NB: The above two discs actually reached me yesterday.

 
4 Comments

1. FoxyMulder said:

I wonder if the studio's will start to enforce the copyright laws and make every blog remove screencaps from their sites ?

Warners official twitter page actually clicked to follow me which was a surprise, i keep wondering if i'll get in trouble soon but i allowed them anyway and clicked them back to follow them too. I guess they probably have an automated bot searching for the word blu ray in tweets and its not an actual person reading posts.

(Posted on Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 11:15 PM)

2. Dom said:

I loved the original 1978 animated version. I can remember shouting and screaming as a child when I was told that they hadn't made the other books into animations :)

(Posted on Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 12:44 AM)

3. Kentai said:

WB, I'm speechless.

I look forward to your thoughts on the animated film's transfer. It really isn't a good film, particularly not in the scheme of Bakshi's career, but I suppose I'm just masochistic enough to consider revisiting it...

(Posted on Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 7:11 AM)

4. David S.H. said:

"Warner has just asked Blu-ray.com to pull their damning captures of the trilogy BDs and replace them with low resolution, pre-approved Warner images."

Wow, now that is funny. After years of hearing from Peter Jackson wanting the Blu-ray trilogy release to be of high quality, cut to now with Warner having to force screenshots down out of embarrassment for such a shoddy job. Other studios should take notes, how not to make an ass of yourself on such a big release.

(Posted on Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 7:20 AM)

 
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