Back to the Future Trilogy 4K UHD (1985-1990)

[BillieCassin]

Originally Posted by KevinStriker

Today years old and I'm finding out I could have bought Alien Anthology in a digipak instead.

Which Batman set uses sleeves?

And you could have gotten it cheaper, too LOL - Amazon UK was like $50 when the Alien quad came out, and Amazon US was like $80 if I recall. Back in the day the prices used to be quite starkly different then the US ones.

I may have gotten the Batman set just for the discounted price and not the packaging - used to buy so much from them way back when.

Originally Posted by Geoff D

I've always hated them anyway but the last straw was my TOS Blu-ray set, I dug it out recently and the gloss coating on the digipak sleeves had delaminated and literally stuck the discs inside the holders.

This is going to be a HUGE issue as time goes on.

All those pretty shiny box sets that some folks find so snazzy and attractive are not going to last, much less are they any type of preservation worthy.

The chemicals and inks, etc. they have to use to make that super-shiny cardboard are not only super-toxic but also very volatile. Pages are going to start to get stuck together, and depending on what they are touching fuse to surfaces, etc. (like reacting to paint or stain on a shelf, for instance).

I've been cleaning out some old boxes lately, mostly of outdated electronics garbage, and I had several boxes from the old fancy Razr mice that have the same type of coating, and it wasn't pretty. Two of them touching had basically "melted" into each other.

Anyway, not only are they obviously a terrible way to store discs, even if they were "acid free archival" (doesn't anyone remember when disc based media first came out, all the little picture warnings of what not to do with them - which included very prominently not putting them on a flat surface?), but those shiny coated cases are not going to stay so shiny.

If you are lucky, they will just eat into themselves and you can jaws-of-life the discs out, but who knows what chemical interaction will happen over time between them and the discs (even if they tend to use the more normal cardboard where you place the discs themselves).

[trekky76]

So is the new set confirmed to be individual cases? I would actually prefer single 6-disc case..

[Tober27]

Originally Posted by trekky76

So is the new set confirmed to be individual cases? I would actually prefer single 6-disc case..

3 cases in a box.

[Telemachus]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

the digipak sleeves had delaminated and literally stuck the discs inside the holders. I got them out but was left with a bunch of stubborn crud on the playing surface of several discs which simply would not come off (and I hear wire wool isn't a great thing to use on discs?), so I chucked the whole set in the bin. Cannot overstate how much I despise them.

Same thing happened to me on this set, I had to use goo gone type cleaner and some alcohol with micro fiber and gentle hands to wick it all off then some disc baths. Miraculously nothing was scratched afterwards. The solvent can take off the ink on the tops of some discs so have to be careful. I'm just imaganing the type of person that doesn't inspect their discs putting a sticky disc like that in their player!

[7Mile]

I have the nordic box set, it's one large blue amaray case inside a slipbox. So much better.

[jdw89]

Just watching the 4K for the first time of the first film and am noticing a lot of brightness increase and then decrease, I checked my TV settings but I don’t have any type of auto brightness on or anything, could it be a setting on my Sony 4K player? Or something to do with Dolby Vision?

[FilmFreakosaurus]

Originally Posted by jdw89

Just watching the 4K for the first time of the first film and am noticing a lot of brightness increase and then decrease, I checked my TV settings but I don’t have any type of auto brightness on or anything, could it be a setting on my Sony 4K player? Or something to do with Dolby Vision?

I don't know if your player and TV are not playing nicely with this title.



Often, the odd fluctuations with DV titles can be attributed to an out of sync metadata layer with the video stream.

[jdw89]

Originally Posted by FilmFreakosaurus

I don't know if your player and TV are not playing nicely with this title.



Often, the odd fluctuations with DV titles can be attributed to an out of sync metadata layer with the video stream.

Interesting, I haven’t had any issues with any other Dolby Vision titles

[Amiibro121]

Man if only I waited to sell my digibook and get this new release because I spent extra on a ebay seller who had custom artwork for individual releases sometime last year. Looks very similar to the covers on the new cases at least.

[Hades_2637]

What is difference with this ''new'' release and the one from few years ago?
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Back-...lu-ray/255538/

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by Hades_2637

What is difference with this ''new'' release and the one from few years ago?
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Back-...lu-ray/255538/

Individual cases as opposed to disc slots.

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[ancient333]

Hi

In the below thread it is included as new transfer/ remastered.

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...hlight=blu-ray

But in this thread I've read it is the original Blu-Rays?

Can someone please confirm.

Cheers.

[DR Herbert West]

Originally Posted by ancient333

Hi

In the below thread it is included as new transfer/ remastered.

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...hlight=blu-ray

But in this thread I've read it is the original Blu-Rays?

Can someone please confirm.

Cheers.

They're remastered.

[zakurowrath]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Individual cases as opposed to disc slots.

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Honestly good news, I actually sold my digipak box set because it was the only awkward shaped Blu-Ray set in my collection.

[Chaz05]

I never bought the first 4K set. It was on my list but I never pulled the trigger. Glad I waited!

[drn211]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

They're remastered.

To clarify they were remastered for the set released in 2020 not this one. This set is the same discs as that set.

[Tim n Tempe]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

I've always hated them anyway but the last straw was my TOS Blu-ray set, I dug it out recently and the gloss coating on the digipak sleeves had delaminated and literally stuck the discs inside the holders. I got them out but was left with a bunch of stubborn crud on the playing surface of several discs which simply would not come off (and I hear wire wool isn't a great thing to use on discs?), so I chucked the whole set in the bin. Cannot overstate how much I despise them.

(That said I can live with what they did on the European Avatar Collectors edition digis, the disc slide in and out verr smoothly, and as they're pressed in Europe the discs weren't scratched to balls to begin with.)

Yup. For some reason Universal LOVES this type of packaging. I still remember the classic Universal Monsters BD set. I was pretty broke at the time and scrimped and saved to get it. A few weeks later the glue had oozed from the cardboard sleeve onto the discs ruining every title. And I could not get a refund because it was an open disc set. It was a bad deal all around.

[bluraybry]

I absolutely love digibooks & digipacks with that type of slide-in packaging. I've never had a problem with any of my 4K or BD discs getting scratched, only DVDs. The only worries I have are with the magnetic closing 4K set of the Mummy movies, and the Limited editions of Avatar 1 & 2. Those are so difficult to get out that I don't see how they won't scratch at some point. It was a cool idea in theory, but poorly executed. I tend not to worry too much about that happening, though. Once my collection reached a certain point, I knew it would be very seldom that I ever got around to rewatching most of my titles. I know it only takes one scratch, but if it doesn't happen the first time, chances are it won't have the chance of happening. I'm more irritated with how theAvatar LE sets were actually stuck in there with glue! My 4Ks are fine, but who knows what the blu-rays will play like, should I ever get the chance to view them.

[Indiana Jones]

Originally Posted by jdw89

Just watching the 4K for the first time of the first film and am noticing a lot of brightness increase and then decrease, I checked my TV settings but I don’t have any type of auto brightness on or anything, could it be a setting on my Sony 4K player? Or something to do with Dolby Vision?

What make/model of TV do you have? as my LG OLED has an auto-dim feature that was driving me crazy when I first bought it as films would constantly getting dim then suddenly go back to normal brightness etc, the option was only accessible from the service menu so had to buy a remote off eBay which would allow me to access it and once disabled it was a much better viewing experience.

[iap738]

Originally Posted by bluraybry

I absolutely love digibooks & digipacks with that type of slide-in packaging. I've never had a problem with any of my 4K or BD discs getting scratched, only DVDs.

I never had any problems either and always felt the scratching rhetoric was way overblown. Perhaps if you manhandle the discs they get scratched, but it's really not all that tough to just slide them out assuming there are no other design flaws like with the old Universal Monster set.