Star Wars: The Complete Saga (1977-2005)

[tigertron]

Originally Posted by Albatross365

I see Amazon have dropped to £60

Quite the opposite, they put the price up to £60. It was £57.37.

Originally Posted by BluRayBond

Mine was delivered from Amazon today. Was only dispatched on Sat after being marked dispatching soon since Weds.

Was that with the super saver delivery? or first class?

[Blu Nick]

Originally Posted by bigmoorer

Has anyone got their copy from HMV yet?

Yep , mines just arrrived !! . Woo hoo !!!

Time to see what all the fuss is about now !.

[Albatross365]

Originally Posted by tigertron

Quite the opposite, they put the price up to £60. It was £57.37.

They put it back up to £67 a couple of days ago

[marlon dingle]

Originally Posted by BluRayBond

Mine was delivered from Amazon today. Was only dispatched on Sat after being marked dispatching soon since Weds.

There is hope.

[No1Mugster]

Mine just arrived.

[bigmoorer]

Originally Posted by Blu Nick

Yep , mines just arrrived !! . Woo hoo !!!

Time to see what all the fuss is about now !.

The same postie has just come back. He left my copy in his van.

[Jimmy Bro]

Cmon guys? PQ/AQ review? Screens? Something? lol

[Blu Nick]

Originally Posted by bigmoorer

The same postie has just come back. He left my copy in his van.

That's great news bigmoorer

[linkin]

Mine has just arrived from Amazon.

[hollerme]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Bro

Anyone got theirs yet?

Got mine last week - fantastic quality both picture and audio-wise, especially Episodes III and V (I haven't watched VI yet - will do so tonight).

[goldenboy75]

Picked up my copy from HMV today and finally found a use for some of my Pure HMV points, got £20 off and the HMV Exclusive free Tshirt. I know it was a bit cheaper to pre order but using the points and the freebie swung it for me.
Looking forward now to the extras.
Nick

[Albatross365]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Bro

Cmon guys? PQ/AQ review? Screens? Something? lol

I would post a review but I haven't been able to watch it yet. My version of PowerDVD isn't compatible.

[Mavrick]

£74.96 in Blockbuster but you could always trade in old BD,DVD and games to lower it. I'm off to HMV now I hear it' £67?

[jimmy21]

Originally Posted by Mavrick

£74.96 in Blockbuster but you could always trade in old BD,DVD and games to lower it. I'm off to HMV now I hear it' £67?

Yes, I just called them it's £67.

[Mavrick]

Thats good. Now I just hope their trae in price is close to what their trade in app tells me.

[marlon dingle]

Postman has been and gone. No sign of it. Oh well here's to another day of looking forward to it.

[keithporter]

Star Wars: Complete Saga (Blu-ray)
DP: 61.27 // RRP: 89.99

£59.99 Sainsburys
£60.00 Tesco
£60.00 Amazon.co.uk
£64.99 Morrisons
£65.49 Sendit.com
£66.97 Asda
£67.45 TheHut.com
£67.49 Play.com
£67.49 HMV (in-store)
£73.99 DVD.co.uk

[The Driver]

[This post only refers to Stars Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of The Jedi -I'm ignoring all the others film because they are CGI childish crap. Empty films. I'm ignoring them just like George ignores the original fans]

Phew, it's easier to collect movies than it is to watch 'em

Since I have no Blu-ray special features (£30 for 3 films with no extras is overpriced!) over the last 2½ days I've watched the Blu-ray trilogy and went back and watched all the VHS, Laserdisc and SE DVD extras. The extras from the Executor (or the 9 disc Definitive Edition Laserdiscs) set are a must-see because they were conceived when there was none of this silly IV, V & VI and "prequel" smoke and mirrors. They are a bit old-fashioned I suppose but I don't mind that.


Anyway, the making ofs: From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga (65mins), The Making of Star Wars: As Told By C-P30 & R2D2 (48mins) (+30mins interviews), Special Effects: The Empire Strikes Back (48mins) (+ 38mins video interviews), Classic Creatures: Return of The Jedi (48mins) (+ 20mins video interviews) -none of these on the SE DVDs. Mostly these are fab and look to be taken off US TV for the most part and offer some great insight into the films and filmmaking process. Lots of little gems:

George Lucas quote (1983) - YouTube

As for the SE DVDs the 2½ hour The Empire of Dreams is quite good (but it's full of people talking about the non-CGI versions and showing clips from the non-CGI versions) and uses some of the footage from the sources I mentioned above. There's also a load of extended interviews, trailers etc etc.

Back to my my 3-disc Blu-rays, well, they ain't got much. A few commentaries and that's it. So, who's watched the special features on discs 7, 8 and 9? What's there? I don't mean a list I'm after a comparison to the SEs DVDs etc.

Hopefully we'll have some 'professional' reviews soon which will not be an easy task!

Overall, I'm very happy with the 3 disc set but it's a crying shame we have no new special features without buying that garbage 'saga' set.

[Albatross365]

Hmm...now let me see.

WinDVD site says visit the UK store and spend £80 on software. No chance.

Just bought it on offer for £30 from the US store - suckers.

I haz Star Wars....so far so good. Looking great.

Blurb on the cardboard thing says it only has English subs but it has loads of languages both spoken and subtitled.

Shame my Blu-ray drive shipped with ancient software.

[DaveSimonH]

Originally Posted by micks_address

watched episode 1 yesterday.. have to say when the opening crawl came on and the music kicked in it sent a shiver down my back.. sounds great..

question about the transfer.. a few scenes where the camera pans right to left there seemed to be some smearing in the transfer.. im thinking one shot especially where Queen Amidalla is sitting with the council discussing the threat of an invasion.. anyone else notice this ?

i dont think its my tv.. panasonic 42vt30 plasma.. havent noticed this kind of smearing before on blu-rays ..

Cheers,
Mick

Apparently ep1 looks the worst, the smearing was probably down to the DNR applied to it.