Game of Thrones: The Complete Fifth Season (2015)

[PissedOffPeoN]

High def digest has the first review up .

[ZoetMB]

Originally Posted by Aragorn the Elfstone

It continues to annoy me to no end that studios do this retailer exclusive BS with bonus features. All three exclusives should be on the standard release.

Ridiculous.

I totally agree, but the consolidation of the industry in both e-commerce and physical retail has given the retailers more power than they should ever have gotten.

There used to be so many independent retailers that the studios could ignore the chains, who didn't do as good a job marketing anyway. But those days are long gone.

But the big physical chains also seem to be slowly phasing out the sales of physical media or at least substantially reducing the amount of floor space allocated to it, so I think over time, they'll lose the power they seem to have today and we'll return to one SKU per product.

In 2015, the top 100 Blu-ray titles (in the U.S.) took 55% of industry units and 71% of industry dollars. So the reality is that you don't really need to stock a lot of titles to fulfill the needs of most consumers (the ones who don't participate in sites like this one). When I was a kid, there were some record stores that just sold the current top 50 or so singles and had just a few racks of albums and there were other retailers that had much deeper stock. I think the Best Buy and Targets of the world are going to return to the "hit" model, especially as they open their newer stores which take up a much smaller footprint. A Barnes & Noble just lost their lease in my neighborhood and it's being replaced with a new concept, Target mini-store. It will be interesting to see how much physical media they carry - I bet not much.

[Jay Mammoth]

Originally Posted by PissedOffPeoN

High def digest has the first review up .

I posted a link yesterday. BB has sent mine out as well, and have given me a partial refund of $2.18.

[SethRex]

Man I'm behind. I haven't even finished the second half of season 1 and I'm still missing season 3 on Vudu. I'll get back to it soon enough, I just kinda left it and got lost in watching other stuff.

[PissedOffPeoN]

Here you go for lazy people http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/2669...fthseason.html

[RBBrittain]

Originally Posted by conan-kun

The Target exclusive version is "currently unavailable." Not sure if that means it's sold out or not: http://www.target.com/p/game-of-thro...e/-/A-50663225

It seems Target always cuts off pre-orders of its exclusives just before release date, and afterwards sells them only in stores (pure B&M or in-store pickup).

[conan-kun]

Ah that makes sense about Target cutting it off. Thank you!

And speaking of Target, my cancel link disappeared so presumably it will be shipping soon.

[JMDiaz718]

Originally Posted by Aragorn the Elfstone

It continues to annoy me to no end that studios do this retailer exclusive BS with bonus features. All three exclusives should be on the standard release.

Ridiculous.

I agree. I just order the standard release from Amazon.com. I don't need the different House covers, or the crappy 20 minute "exclusive", from Best Buy or Target.

I'm sure once the show is done, they'll release a huge box set, with ACTUAL worthy extras. I mean I am shocked, at how few deleted scenes are ever included, in ANY season.

Plus, as long as they take to release the seasons on blu-ray, you'd think there would be a ton of extras. Commentaries are nice, but I like visual extras as well.

[Blu-Benny]

got confirmation last night that my Bolton Best Buy version has shipped.

hopefully it's here by Tuesday!!

[bookcase]

This was the first season I didn't watch the show when it aired -- I was in the process of moving from Chicago to Boston when it started. Even though I have HBO GO, this is one of the very few shows I continue to buy on BD, so that's how I'm going to catch up.

[wolve]

Waiting for my preorder to ship from Target...

[BillieCassin]

Originally Posted by ZoetMB

I totally agree, but the consolidation of the industry in both e-commerce and physical retail has given the retailers more power than they should ever have gotten.

But the big physical chains also seem to be slowly phasing out the sales of physical media or at least substantially reducing the amount of floor space allocated to it, so I think over time, they'll lose the power they seem to have today and we'll return to one SKU per product.

I think you are missing why they have so much power with the exclusives - it works the same with video games, toys, etc. - they carry less of the product which gives them MORE leverage and the studios, etc. wanting to keep them happy so they don't further reduce their purchases.

[Aragorn the Elfstone]

The Season 5 menu has been uploaded to YouTube for anybody who wants a glimpse:

Game of Thrones - Blu-Ray Menu (Season 5) - YouTube

[Destinys Memory]

Tried to apply a giftcard to my Amazon order and they changed my delivery date from Tuesday to Thursday.

Guess I'll wait for Cartwheel and get the Target exclusive for ~$8.49 less then.

[dcowboy7]

Watchersonthewall gave the episode commentary list:

1: Director Michael Slovis, Dir. of Photography Dave Franco and Ciarán Hinds

2: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Gwendoline Christie and Daniel Portman

3: Production designer Deborah Riley, Costume designer Michele Clapton, and DP Anette Haellmigk

4: Director Mark Mylod, Episode writer Dave Hill, Natalie Dormer and Dean-Charles Chapman

5: Director Jeremy Podeswa, DP Greg Middleton, Iwan Rheon and Michael McElhatton

6: Producer/episode writer Bryan Cogman, Maisie Williams and Tom Wlaschiha

7: no commentary

8: 3 separate commentaries!
1. Director Miguel Sapochnik, Stunt Coordinator Rowley Irlam, Kit Harington, and Kristofer Hivju
2. VFX Producer Steve Kullback, VFX Supervisor Joe Bauer, and producer Chris Newman
3 DP Fabian Wagner and camera operators Sean Savage and David Morgan

9: 2 commentaries!
1. Director David Nutter, Peter Dinklage and Iain Glen
2. Executive producer Bernadette Caulfield, DP Rob Maclachlan, and camera operators Ben Wilson and David Worley

10: Showrunners and episode writers David Benioff and D.B Weiss, director David Nutter, and Lena Headey

[Aragorn the Elfstone]

That's really cool that they got Ciaran Hinds for a commentary. I'm glad there's a few new names on the list this year.

Kind of surprising that Sophie Turner didn't do any, but maybe she was busy on X-Men. Although, that does mean that we'll be spared a commentary track of two teenage girls chatting about everything BUT GoT! (ala last year's "First of His Name").

[rashad30]

Originally Posted by Aragorn the Elfstone

The Season 5 menu has been uploaded to YouTube for anybody who wants a glimpse:

Game of Thrones - Blu-Ray Menu (Season 5) - YouTube

Excellent!! When I first heard Blood of the Dragon from the soundtrack I thought it would make for great menu music.

[edwn1220]

Got this confirmation from the UK GoT Season 5 preorder thread:

Originally Posted by Indiana Solo

Can you confirm Region Free? Please & Thanks!

Originally Posted by cropsy

yep, plays in my region A as well.

Source

[Jay Mammoth]

Originally Posted by edwn1220

Got this confirmation from the UK GoT Season 5 preorder thread:



Source

Everyone knew it would be region free. Why would they suddenly region lock their releases?

[edwn1220]

Originally Posted by Jay Mammoth

Everyone knew it would be region free. Why would they suddenly region lock their releases?

Not everyone. There were several members asking if the UK set is region B in the last few pages. I just did them a favor by quoting a couple of posts from the other thread. Apparently the confusion stemmed from the advertised region code in the Amazon.co.uk's GoT S5 page.