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post #421 of 690
9/28/12 at 9:04am
I guess it depends on whether it's the UK or US set. The UK set has lossy 2.0 tracks for the relevant films, that weren't released anywhere previously. Licence to Kill in the UK set, is 5.1 only.
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post #422 of 690
9/28/12 at 9:08am
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Huh, well colour me surprised
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post #423 of 690
9/28/12 at 9:59am
I tried to watch the bonus material on "Diamonds Are Forever" last night and any bonus material in SD won't fill the screen- it just appears shrunk down in the upper left hand corner at about one quarter actual size. The same thing happened on a few of the other films as well.

Regular standard 4x3 SD DVDs play fine, with the 4x3 content having bars on the right and lefy hand sides of the screen.

I'm sure something must be incorrect in the settings on either the BD player the TV. Both are Sony.

The TV is KDL-32EX710 and the BD player is BDP-S380.

Any help would be appreciated.
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post #424 of 690
9/28/12 at 10:13am
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I'm sure something must be incorrect in the settings on either the BD player the TV. Both are Sony.

Not necessarily- the disc may be encoded incorrectly. Some of the SD bonus material on the North American Blue Velvet disc is encoded the same way.
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post #425 of 690
9/28/12 at 11:06am
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Not necessarily- the disc may be encoded incorrectly. Some of the SD bonus material on the North American Blue Velvet disc is encoded the same way.

Thanks- If that's the case I'm glad that i kept the bonus content SD DVDs from the old 2 disc Special Editions.

If this is an encoding error, I'm surprised that no one else has complained.
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post #426 of 690
9/29/12 at 3:05pm
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That's certainly true. I haven't watched it recently, so I don't know why that would be (barring technical issues). Perhaps its sound design wasn't as "aggressive" as some of the other films?
The other Bond films that have similarly low audio bitrates include For Your Eyes Only (2262 kbps), Die Another Day (2335 kbps), and The World Is Not Enough (2425 kbps), and the aforementioned The Living Daylights (2707 kbps).
Theatrically TND had one of the best surround mixes I've ever heard. The UE was quite good though the volume had been raised to be a bit louder and compressed.
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I always used it as a Laserdisc sound demo
Now I've really got to get a copy just to match my Goldeneye which is a sound demo disc for me.
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Really I thought Licence to Kill and Living Daylights were 5.1 only
Nope they have their original 2.0 surround tracks, but of course on these lossy DD tracks they are very compressed. AVTAK 2.0 on the UE was always rather loud and boomy on this which I found surprising for the Dolby Surround format. The LD is far better with everything much more natural and defined. TLD sounds incredible on LD as well.
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post #427 of 690
9/29/12 at 3:19pm
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Theatrically TND had one of the best surround mixes I've ever heard. The UE was quite good though the volume had been raised to be a bit louder and compressed.
Now I've really got to get a copy just to match my Goldeneye which is a sound demo disc for me.
Nope they have their original 2.0 surround tracks, but of course on these lossy DD tracks they are very compressed. AVTAK 2.0 on the UE was always rather loud and boomy on this which I found surprising for the Dolby Surround format. The LD is far better with everything much more natural and defined. TLD sounds incredible on LD as well.
I checked out the audio options on TLD last night, glad the option is there , I honestly thought is had a 70mm blow up but it just had trailers in 70mm
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post #428 of 690
9/29/12 at 5:18pm
The Spy Who Loved Me: I checked it out last night: Out of 5, I give it a 4 on the picture quality. I felt that MGM/Fox could have a better job on the video quality. I think the majority will find it better than the UE 2006 editions and I agree it's better but I don't feel it the blu ray has that wow factor. The audio is what I expected, pretty good.
Will check out You Only Live Twice later.
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post #429 of 690
9/29/12 at 5:36pm
I still haven't looked at my set yet. I opened it up but I haven't ripped them to my server yet. I think I might leave some of these for me to watch around the holidays.
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post #430 of 690
9/29/12 at 9:39pm
I picked up my set yesterday
I would have liked a title above each disc with the name of the disc--all it has is the year--will look to a nice way of doing this
The way they fit into the sleeves can cover the disc title
Would have been great in gold type of the title above each disc
I would have also liked a few extra sleeves put in as I am going to put in NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN in the extras sleeve and also would have liked CASINO ROYALE with David Niven disc to go in.
Boy are THE NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN blurays gone thru the roof because they are rare and not in the boxset.
Some up around $200 just for Never Say Never Again
bugga I sold mine for $10 not long ago--it was region A and wouldnt play on my bluray region B players--end up ripping it putting it on media hdd for my media players
By the way I was disappointed in the quality of GOLDENEYE
I found the video not crisp and some of the older titles are better
The audio didnt seem to have much dynamic range in some scenes that I HEARD SOUND BETTER
Particularly in the begininng when he is coming down the dam face and shoots into the concrete--have heard this sound better
Have yet to watch the whole disc--just skipped thru as this is my fav Bond film
Edited by denass - 9/29/12 at 9:48pm
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post #431 of 690
9/29/12 at 9:56pm
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I picked up my set yesterday
I would have liked a title above each disc with the name of the disc--all it has is the year
The way they fit into the sleeves can cover the disc title
Would have been great in gold type of the title above each disc
I would have also liked a few extra sleeves put in as I am going to put in NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN in the extras sleeve and also would have liked CASINO ROYALE with David Niven disc to go in.
Boy are THE NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN blurays gone thru the roof because they are rare and not in the boxset.
Some up around $200 just for Never Say Never Again
bugga I sold mine for $10 not long ago--it was region A and wouldnt play on my bluray region B players--end up ripping it putting it on media hdd for my media players

I had no idea Never Say Never Again went OOP. Does anyone know why? It was always a $10 BD here in Canada. I know that's what I paid for it.

Anyways, count me as someone not too thrilled with the packaging. None of my discs were scratched, but damn were they held tightly in place. I had to forcefully pull each one out. And once I took them out I wasn't putting them back in because of it. I ordered four 6-disc blu-ray cases that night and now have them all nicely inside them.
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post #432 of 690
9/30/12 at 5:35am
A shame about Goldeneye it is one of my favorites.
I remember the old laser disc being really great.
Any chance this set drops to $135 during the holidays?
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post #433 of 690
9/30/12 at 6:01am
SInce I purchased the set for $150, I fully expect it to be available somewhere for $100 or less. That happens every year I get a box set in the second half of the year. Someone always seems to offer a special low price for it around the holidays. Makingme wish I had waited.
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post #434 of 690
9/30/12 at 6:04am
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Any chance this set drops to $135 during the holidays?

Are you really going to let 68 cents per movie be the deciding factor for buying this set?

Mark
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post #435 of 690
9/30/12 at 6:34am
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Are you really going to let 68 cents per movie be the deciding factor for buying this set?
Mark

Yup.
I have been burned too many times paying new release price.
Some titles dropped from $29 to 9.99.
I don't need to buy and watch right away anyway- I can wait.
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post #436 of 690
9/30/12 at 9:19am
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Originally Posted by bokes View Post

Yup.
I have been burned too many times paying new release price.
Some titles dropped from $29 to 9.99.
I don't need to buy and watch right away anyway- I can wait.
I agree on waiting with the exception of the Bond discs. I will not buy season 5 of Mad Men when it's released, I bought the first 4 seasons when they had it on sale for $8.99 each and that's the price I will be looking for on season 5. Eventually all these discs drop in price.
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post #437 of 690
10/1/12 at 12:16pm
All the discs are scratched if you look hard enough.
Not damagingly so,only visible in certain light. Like the scuffs you see accumulate on your glasses.
Edited by Fanboyz - 10/1/12 at 12:22pm
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post #438 of 690
10/1/12 at 12:46pm
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Originally Posted by denass View Post

I picked up my set yesterday
I would have liked a title above each disc with the name of the disc--all it has is the year--will look to a nice way of doing this
The way they fit into the sleeves can cover the disc title
Would have been great in gold type of the title above each disc
I would have also liked a few extra sleeves put in as I am going to put in NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN in the extras sleeve and also would have liked CASINO ROYALE with David Niven disc to go in.
Boy are THE NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN blurays gone thru the roof because they are rare and not in the boxset.
Some up around $200 just for Never Say Never Again
bugga I sold mine for $10 not long ago--it was region A and wouldnt play on my bluray region B players--end up ripping it putting it on media hdd for my media players
By the way I was disappointed in the quality of GOLDENEYE
I found the video not crisp and some of the older titles are better
The audio didnt seem to have much dynamic range in some scenes that I HEARD SOUND BETTER
Particularly in the begininng when he is coming down the dam face and shoots into the concrete--have heard this sound better
Have yet to watch the whole disc--just skipped thru as this is my fav Bond film

I wouldn't buy Never Say Never Again on bluray. I rented it from Netflix last year and the PQ was crap. I give it a 3 out of 5.
It's a shame regarding Goldeneye. Unfortunately we are stuck with it. MGM doesn't really have the cash flow to support a loss on a recall and re-issue program.
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post #439 of 690
10/1/12 at 12:57pm
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Never is a poor remake, but the pq beats half this set
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post #440 of 690
10/1/12 at 4:44pm
I have a problem with "You Only Live Twice" stuttering and then freezing in Chapter 22 after the "thread event". Different players (Oppo BDP-93 and Panny BDT 210) produced the same result after cleaning the disc. Anyone else experience this?
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post #441 of 690
10/1/12 at 6:02pm
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Originally Posted by Rich_McCracken View Post

I have a problem with "You Only Live Twice" stuttering and then freezing in Chapter 22 after the "thread event". Different players (Oppo BDP-93 and Panny BDT 210) produced the same result after cleaning the disc. Anyone else experience this?

Watched it last night, it was fine.
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post #442 of 690
10/1/12 at 6:16pm
I am only interested in the previously unreleased titles (unless there has been major changes) so I have no interest in the boxset, but I have yet to see much beyond a tiny few screenshots. Also does frozen film grain still plague sky scenes?
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post #443 of 690
10/1/12 at 6:50pm
What's the deal with the retailer exclusives that are supposed to be coming out tomorrow? Wal-Mart has been promoting theirs rather heavily, but I went to both Best Buy and Target today, and neither had any idea what I was talking about.
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post #444 of 690
10/1/12 at 10:34pm
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What's the deal with the retailer exclusives that are supposed to be coming out tomorrow? Wal-Mart has been promoting theirs rather heavily, but I went to both Best Buy and Target today, and neither had any idea what I was talking about.

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This set has been out since last Tuesday. The 'sale week' is already over with.
Today Target had it for $170 - matching Amazon's price.
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post #445 of 690
10/1/12 at 10:56pm
I didn't mean the set. I was talking about the individual movies that Target, Best Buy, and Wal-Mart are supposed to get as exclusives. They're each getting 3 of the films that had not been released yet. Wal-Mart has theirs up on their website, but the other two have no mention of them at all.
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post #446 of 690
10/2/12 at 6:23am
I pre-ordered the three individual releases exclusive to Wal-Mart, and I found the three Target releases in store this morning. I'm going to try to swing by Best Buy today to look for the final three, but it would've been nice if there website would've allowed me to reserve them for in-store pickup. mad.gif
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post #447 of 690
10/2/12 at 9:07am
I went to Target this morning and they only got 1 each of the James Bond exclusives mad.gif
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post #448 of 690
10/2/12 at 10:40am
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Originally Posted by Paul Arnette View Post

I pre-ordered the three individual releases exclusive to Wal-Mart, and I found the three Target releases in store this morning. I'm going to try to swing by Best Buy today to look for the final three, but it would've been nice if there website would've allowed me to reserve them for in-store pickup. mad.gif

There is a reason why Best Buy didn't want those titles in their website: They want people to buy the boxset. Higher profit for them.
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post #449 of 690
10/2/12 at 11:03am
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Originally Posted by daniels1994 View Post

I wouldn't buy Never Say Never Again on bluray. I rented it from Netflix last year and the PQ was crap. I give it a 3 out of 5.

The PQ on Never Say Never Again is fine. The movie was shot with a lot of mist filters that limit the amount of detail in the source.
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post #450 of 690
10/2/12 at 11:17am
I have the BD of "Never Say Never Again" coming to me from Netflix. I'll need to watch it later this week.
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