James Bond: The Ultimate Collection (1962-2012) + Volume Collections

[rlb131]

Originally Posted by master gandhi

I don't know if this interests others, but I decided to round up the best deals I could find at major retailers for these new releases (assuming you want the digital copies included)...

1. Sean Connery Collection Volume 1 (Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger) - $14.99 on Amazon and at Target
2. Sean Connery Collection Volume 2 (Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, Diamonds Are Forever) - $14.99 on Amazon and at Target
3. On Her Majesty's Secret Service - $9 at Wal-Mart for the exclusive
4. Roger Moore Collection Volume 1 (Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me) - $9.99 at Target
5. Roger Moore Collection Volume 2 (Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopssy, A View to a Kill) - $9.99 at Target (Unconfirmed)
6. The Living Daylights - $10.49 at Target (with $7 in Spectre Movie Money)
7. Licence to Kill - $11.99 at Best Buy
8. Pierce Brosnan Collection (Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough, Die Another Day) - $9.99 at Target
9. Daniel Craig Collection (Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall) - $18.99 at Costco ($19.99 most everywhere else)

Hey, Thanks for this list. Although I have a lot of the Bond titles on DvD, and have never upgraded to BD, I grabbed all the recent steelbooks and was left wondering how to complete my collection with the rest of the titles, as inexpensively as possible.

All of the newly released single titles I saw in BB today for $7.50 each but to get 14 I need I may as well grab the new total collection for around the same price. It looks like the extras are contained throughout whichever route you go, so that's not making me swing either way. I suppose the new total collection would be nice, having all together and saving shelf space, but then I still have the 9 steelbooks as well.

After looking over your list I think I will just grab the actor titles I need to fill out the rest of the movies I need, and will only be buying 2 movies twice that I already have via the steelbooks. Your list also let me calculate what I needed and what it would cost. Basically, I will only grab SCvol1, RMvol1, RMvol2, PBcollection, and the 2 Dalton titles, Living Daylights & Licence to Kill. This ends up being the least expensive way for me to complete getting all the movies on my shelf.

Just realized I can grab the Dalton collection to get those titles, didn't see that til now.

[Lt. Brannigan]

Originally Posted by rlb131

Hey, Thanks for this list. Although I have a lot of the Bond titles on DvD, and have never upgraded to BD, I grabbed all the recent steelbooks and was left wondering how to complete my collection with the rest of the titles, as inexpensively as possible.

All of the newly released single titles I saw in BB today for $7.50 each but to get 14 I need I may as well grab the new total collection for around the same price. It looks like the extras are contained throughout whichever route you go, so that's not making me swing either way. I suppose the new total collection would be nice, having all together and saving shelf space, but then I still have the 9 steelbooks as well.

After looking over your list I think I will just grab the actor titles I need to fill out the rest of the movies I need, and will only be buying 2 movies twice that I already have via the steelbooks. Your list also let me calculate what I needed and what it would cost. Basically, I will only grab SCvol1, RMvol1, RMvol2, PBcollection, and the 2 Dalton titles, Living Daylights & Licence to Kill. This ends up being the least expensive way for me to complete getting all the movies on my shelf.

Just realized I can grab the Dalton collection to get those titles, didn't see that til now.

The Dalton collection doesn't come with digital copies.

[startrekkin58]

If anyone's interested, Amazon's exclusive version has dropped from $210 to $180. Not a bad price drop. That works out to $7.83/film plus the digital copies. I think it might be time to jump on them.

[Diditagain]

I was just looking around the FoxConnect website, and the Amazon exclusive set is there now, currently only $149.99 (50% off).

Would an item like this be eligible for when FoxConnect has their next flash sale, or is it too expensive? I can't remember if there was a dollar limit a flash sale.

[Machine Gun Willy]

My local Wal-Mart had the white box version in store today for ~ $94. It has a shelf spot and is part of the new modular they were setting. Lowest price I've seen if you're not interested in the Amazon exclusive content.

[Eagleman]

Hi.. im wondering if you by any chance knew one thing, i have been checking this all over when the new Bond collection comes on blu ray in region b and i see that it has, but it doesn't say if it has subtitles and it doesn't show if it contains the book and stuff. Basically i wanna know if its completely the same thing just in region b.

[Agent Bond]

What Bond film benefited the most from the Lowry Restoration?

[StingingVelvet]

Originally Posted by Agent Bond

What Bond film benefited the most from the Lowry Restoration?

All the 4k ones look roughly the same, quality wise.

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by StingingVelvet

All the 4k ones look roughly the same, quality wise.

Ehh

[Machine Gun Willy]

Originally Posted by Agent Bond

What Bond film benefited the most from the Lowry Restoration?

The Spy Who Loved Me gets my vote.

[michaelhazin]

Is there any way to get a black skyfall disc to match the rest in the bond 50 set with out buying all 23 of them again?

[Sky_Captain]

[Carlanga]

Originally Posted by michaelhazin

Is there any way to get a black skyfall disc to match the rest in the bond 50 set with out buying all 23 of them again?

buy those paper cd covers that you print artwork directly on them and then put it on? Of course it has to be perfect and good quality for it to last. Last time I used that type CD-Rs were just starting to get traction though

[V40LLY]

Originally Posted by StingingVelvet

All the 4k ones look roughly the same, quality wise.

There isn't any 4K Bond films on Blu ray!

[StingingVelvet]

Originally Posted by V40LLY

There isn't any 4K Bond films on Blu ray!

Uh, yeah there are. I don't have the list handy but roughly half the original 16 films were given 4k remasters for the Ultimate Edition DVD releases, which then carried over to BD. Spy Who Loved Me was upgraded later, I believe.

They all look great, though they have some minor issues since they were such early 4k masters. The grain freezes here and there, maybe a bit too much noise reduction was applied, but overall they look excellent for films of that era. I don't think any of them really stand above the others though, quality wise, so I suppose which was "improved the most" would depend on which was worst on the early DVDs back in the day.

Hopefully the rest of the films are done in 4k someday soon.

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by StingingVelvet

Uh, yeah there are. I don't have the list handy but roughly half the original 16 films were given 4k remasters for the Ultimate Edition DVD releases, which then carried over to BD. Spy Who Loved Me was upgraded later, I believe.

They all look great, though they have some minor issues since they were such early 4k masters. The grain freezes here and there, maybe a bit too much noise reduction was applied, but overall they look excellent for films of that era. I don't think any of them really stand above the others though, quality wise, so I suppose which was "improved the most" would depend on which was worst on the early DVDs back in the day.

Hopefully the rest of the films are done in 4k someday soon.

I thought they were 6k
Plus the grain is of later vintage

[Lyle_JP]

Originally Posted by Machine Gun Willy

The Spy Who Loved Me gets my vote.

I assume you're being funny, or you don't know. That's a Bond blu-ray transfer that Lowry had nothing to do with. Their restoration of TSWLM (with all its ugly baked-in edge enhancement) is on DVD only.

[Wolfking]

this has probably been asked, but are the digital copies iTunes compatible?

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by Lyle_JP

I assume you're being funny, or you don't know. That's a Bond blu-ray transfer that Lowry had nothing to do with. Their restoration of TSWLM (with all its ugly baked-in edge enhancement) is on DVD only.

That's why it looks better than any of their garbage

[chip75]

Originally Posted by Eagleman

Hi.. im wondering if you by any chance knew one thing, i have been checking this all over when the new Bond collection comes on blu ray in region b and i see that it has, but it doesn't say if it has subtitles and it doesn't show if it contains the book and stuff. Basically i wanna know if its completely the same thing just in region b.

The Amazon Exclusive has the book:



I posted the subtitle options a few weeks back, I'll try and find the post and update this one. Not all the region B discs are the same as the US ones, just the last bacth from a few years back, the original US ones had original audio track whilst in the UK we didn't. Some of the US discs are locked or at least they were originally.

Dr. No
English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

From Russia with Love
English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Mandarin (Simplified), Norwegian, Swedish

Goldfinger
English SDH, French, German, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

Thunderball
English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

You Only Live Twice
English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

On Her Majesty's Secret Service
English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

Diamonds Are Forever
English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

Live and Let Die
English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

The Man with the Golden Gun
English SDH, French, German, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

The Spy Who Loved Me
English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

Moonraker
English SDH, French, German, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

For Your Eyes Only
English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

Octopussy
English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

A View to a Kill
English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

The Living Daylights
English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

Licence to Kill
English SDH, French, German, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

GoldenEye
English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

Tomorrow Never Dies
English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

The World is Not Enough
English SDH, French, German, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

Die Another Day
English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

Casino Royale
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish

Quantum of Solace
English SDH, Spanish, German, Danish, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish

Skyfall
English SDH, Spanish, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Mandarin (Simplified), Norwegian, Russian, Swedish