Gatchaman (Battle of the Planets) Collection Oct 29

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by reason108

I am thinking about sitting down and just going through the extras to compare the original box set with the new blu. I hope someone beats me to it. haha. I`m getting lazy.

Yeah, this blu ray set should have had everything that the previous dvd set had. Blu ray disc #13 contains the OVA`s. Disc #14 contains the main extras. Not sure why all the extras could not be fit onto that disc. If there was too much information then just print another disc. Yeah, the OVA`s are nice, but not at the expense of the original extras.



2 other complaints that I have:

1) The box for the blu ray set is not sturdy at all. Too bad they could not have made a sturdier box like the previous dvd set had.

2) A lot of Alex Ross`s artwork is not included. There are elements of it but not all of the artwork has been brought over. It would have been nice to just have a little booklet that would include all of the original art that he did for the dvd release. Or, an artwork gallery on one of the discs.



Yeah, it might seem that I am nitpicking. I bought the set. But, now I am stuck with both a dvd and blu ray set. I was hoping to downsize as I am running out of room and could have used the extra cash that the dvd set would have brought. Instead, I am stuck with 2 sets. I am beginning to prefer the improved pq of the blu but I think it pretty much fails at everything else. If I would have known before I bought it that it was not going to include everything from the dvd set then I probably would not have bought it. (unless the info is there but hidden somewhere. but just looking at the extras listed on the blu`s package, they are not listed.)

I was worried about the artwork. One thing that strcuk me about the DVD box sets were how how high the quality was. The boxset were very sturdy and the artwork was excellent - each box had different artwork, and each separate DVD case had individual artwork as well, meaning if you had the whole set you had a very nice collection of artwork. Sounds like that same level hasn't been carried over here in terms of presentation. I figured since we won't have so many individual cases like the DVD set, we would lose much of the nice artwork, but I figured we might get a nice booklet with all the artwork inside, or maybe some nice HD galleries of the art. I guess not. This combined with the stretched extras and the missing extras make this a disappointing first impression. I can't open mine until Christmas so I have to just wait and see how it turns out for others in here. I'm hoping the quality of the episodes makes up for the lack of care with the extras, but the stretching really has me upset. There is no excuse for that.