What's the difference beetween a steelbook and an iron pack

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Originally Posted by Zyclone

steel book is the case itself a iron pack is a slip cover that goes over a standard blu ray case.

wrong, a iron pack is much like a steelbook but is made by a different cover and has a different kind of spine. A star metalpack is also similiar but also has a different spine (this is what the Aussie release of Sherlock Holmes is). Quality wise people on this forum tend to say steelbook > ironpack > star metalpack. Personally I hav never owned a ironpack but the star metalpack is only slighly less nice as a steelbook as I minorly prefer the spines of stelbooks (but only just).

Originally Posted by thetechnique

Hmmm I thought so it's weird cos Sherlock holmes was advertised as a iron pack and it's a steelbook. Yet my inglorius basterds was advertised as a steelbook and is a iron cover.... WTF?

Sherlock Holmes isn't a steelbook, it's a star metalpack.