Storm of the Century - DVD Kino Rerelease

[MoviePhanatic00]

Passing along an FYI. Kino recently re-released Stephen King's Storm of the Century on DVD in a stand alone edition. It had been out of print for a long time so I was happy to pick this up on day 1.

It's a two disc set with parts 1 and 2 on disc 1 and part 3 on disc 2.

PQ is not bad, clearly DVD quality, but very watchable.

[Blu Titan]

I already own the DVD but would love and buy a BD release.

[CouncilSpectre]

I’d snap up a blu release too. With It and The Stand now available, SotC is next on my ‘want’ list. Unfortunately doesn’t look likely. Not anytime soon at least.

[bubbamoo]

id buy a blu release in a second. vintage king IMO.

[filmbuffTX]

Is the quality of this any better than the version that's available in the multi feature sets or the OOP stand alone edition? New transfer?

[rdodolak]

Originally Posted by filmbuffTX

Is the quality of this any better than the version that's available in the multi feature sets or the OOP stand alone edition? New transfer?

I don't believe it's a new scan, hence the reason why it wasn't released on Blu-ray. In theory, this release should be better since it's two discs vice the original one.

[dg5150]

This was one of the first DVD's I purchased back in the day. I remember cutting out of work early to go to Circuit City and check out this new format that was the best pq available. Got a player and about 10 discs. Very expensive day. I would leave storm of the century playing when I went to sleep because after the credits it would go back to the menu screen with the storm and waves playing. Very expensive white noise. But a great movie.

[HorrorBlu]

Going from memory, the original LionsGate DVD presented it as one long 4+ hour movie with a split somewhere in the middle. The disc was dual-sided, with half on each side of the disc.

It sounds like Kino's DVD is presenting it how it originally aired, in 3-parts.

[rdodolak]

Originally Posted by HorrorBlu

Going from memory, the original LionsGate DVD presented it as one long 4+ hour movie with a split somewhere in the middle. The disc was dual-sided, with half on each side of the disc.

It sounds like Kino's DVD is presenting it how it originally aired, in 3-parts.

I wonder how the Lionsgate release compared to the original Trimark release? The Trimark was a DVD-10 or basically a dual sided disc with two single layers (DVD-5s).