Lawrence of Arabia 4K UHD (1962)

[Archivy]

I have purchased from Deep Discount off and on for two decades. They have some great deals, but indeed you have to be willing to pay a risk premium in return. There are other outlets that are "safer" but more costly. It depends on your risk tolerance, just as it does when investing in bonds vs. index funds vs. stocks. DD also has a comparatively small inventory of items to buy vs. Amazon, the behemoth.

[Ernest Rister]

Leaked Cover Art for Lawrence of Arabia (non-steelbook edition):

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[matbezlima]

This is right now number 1 at the Amazon best-sellers AND "most desired" charts of Military & War film releases. It is number one of those two charts at the same time.

Sony's strategy works.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

Leaked Cover Art for Lawrence of Arabia (non-steelbook edition):

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Still not as grainy as the UHD is, lol

[Jafar]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

Leaked Cover Art for Lawrence of Arabia (non-steelbook edition):

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Clearly a lot more love has gone into it when compared to all the horrendous looking cover art those big studios have been putting out lately.

[NotASpeckOfCereal]

Originally Posted by Archivy

I have purchased from Deep Discount off and on for two decades. They have some great deals, but indeed you have to be willing to pay a risk premium in return. There are other outlets that are "safer" but more costly. It depends on your risk tolerance, just as it does when investing in bonds vs. index funds vs. stocks.

Invalid analogy. Funds and stocks are the asset of transaction, not the market dealer of transaction. You should be comparing a shady broker to DD, not the product / assets themselves (and films on physical media are not the volatile / risky product that stocks and bonds are).

DD also has a comparatively small inventory of items to buy vs. Amazon, the behemoth.

Being a specialized retailer should mean they do it better, not worse. It's what they do. The other small retailers that do it right prove this.

But this still doesn't work in comparison, because Amazon screws up all the time as well—they just rectify it properly. At their expense. They partnership with a buttload of local drop off points to make it free and easy.

However, you're probably still going to be accepting of this level of risk—do as you will.

Chris

[Ruined]

Originally Posted by matbezlima

This is right now number 1 at the Amazon best-sellers AND "most desired" charts of Military & War film releases. It is number one of those two charts at the same time.

Sony's strategy works.

Of course it does.

And don't be surprised when they put Columbia Classics Vol1 back into print and people buy it for 149.99 for the other titles, including another copy of lawrence of arabia

[HonestJohn]

Originally Posted by Mister_Kidd

I think Bullmoose ships separately as items become available.

You're correct.

[50strat54]

Originally Posted by Ruined

Of course it does.

And don't be surprised when they put Columbia Classics Vol1 back into print and people buy it for 149.99 for the other titles, including another copy of lawrence of arabia

There's a minimum Sony has to make in order to make it worthwhile to reprint vs how many they sell and then there is inventory storage costs etc.

It's more logical for them to release standard editions of these titles since all of the artwork is already made including slipcovers. It was easy for ebayers to just slip the titles out of the box and sell them individually.

If a title from the box seems really hot Sony may do a steelbook first then the standard release. Sony must have had a bunch of empty steelbooks in the warehouse or Sony actually reprinted them.

Despite declining physical sales there are some tiltles that will be released in 4K and will stay in print. Eventually Sony WILL release a standard version. In reality this title never really went out of print on 4K, it just had periods where inventory was scarce and then Sony printed up a whole new batch.

[hulkreborn]

My copy from Deep Discount just shipped.

[blktor34]

Originally Posted by hulkreborn

My copy from Deep Discount just shipped.

Same, somewhat surprised as I ordered on the 8th while on backorder.

[gotBlu]

Just got my copy from Moviesunlimited. Arrived with no damage of any kind!

[matbezlima]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

I have one question. You are probably the most eagle-eyed user in these forums, and I trust you. You have said in previous comments that the compression in the UHD isn't always transparent. But how common and how serious are the compression issues exactly? How noticeable are they actually?

[matbezlima]

Originally Posted by captainsolo

Doggone it. I went to preorder it to with something for free shipping and it went out of stock as I was placing the order.

What is up with Sony doing this with the boxset titles and keeping the standalones OOS or simply never making standalones?

Have you been able to get the UHD of Lawrence Of Arabia since then?

[Mattiemax]

Placed my order with DeepDiscount on Friday night, 5 items which included this Steelbook.

3 of the items including this were in stock but just got shipping notification and only 2 items shipped and surprises surprise this item didn’t and now it backordered. Can only assume they have over sold and shall await this we can not fulfil your order email….

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by matbezlima

I have one question. You are probably the most eagle-eyed user in these forums, and I trust you. You have said in previous comments that the compression in the UHD isn't always transparent. But how common and how serious are the compression issues exactly? How noticeable are they actually?

Exactly? Actually? I can’t answer that because it all depends on the viewer. Sit far enough away and most compression problems disappear. At the end of the day you need to watch it for yourself instead of fixating on what I say.

[BoiD44]

Originally Posted by BoiD44

I have now booked it from importcds.com. Ended up costing me $47.60.

Any idea about the chances of getting it?

My copy from Importcds.com shipped yesterday.


Thanks @MifuneFan for the tip.

[matbezlima]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Exactly? Actually? I can’t answer that because it all depends on the viewer. Sit far enough away and most compression problems disappear. At the end of the day you need to watch it for yourself instead of fixating on what I say.

I just meant on your scale of discs with less than perfect encoding.

[Ben_UK]

Ive only seen the caps on capsaholic but the UHD looks like the same scan used for the older blu ray. The grain kinda has this old scan look, it appears quite harsh, almost like some sharpening has been applied to it.

[Mattiemax]

Do people know if this is now sold out or is more stock coming?