Game of Thrones: The Complete Collection 4K UHD (2011-2019)

[PissedOffPeoN]

Dang! Just got off work, too bad i couldn't save it, but this is great news .

[Avageektwit]

Originally Posted by Vendetta-akk

I knew this post would turn into people complaining and debating the last season yet again.

That is certainly the worst (the compliants). GOT is GOAT; ALL SEASONS OF GOT!

[slimdude]

I've try to watch the first three seasons of Game of Thrones (to see what the big deal was) and then I stopped. I couldn't get into it. Maybe because I'm not a big medieval fan I don't know, but it just didn't peak my interest at all. The sex and nudity was gratuitous and of coarse the producers had to throw it in to keep the viewers watching, but not me. Is this what people are praising and falling head over heels over? Please!

[GeneD5]

This is awesome!!!

I have season 1 and am feeling thankful I held out on 8 now. Can’t wait to have this set!

[GenPion]

Hope this news does come to fruition. Sounds promising. I'm in! Glad now that I still had yet to purchase the earlier complete set.

[Wally Q]

Originally Posted by Pieter V

Band of Brothers...

And The Pacific. And Six Feet Under. Those are the only three HBO series from the back catalogue that I desire (Heck, I just want SFU in HD).

[Bn43]

Originally Posted by Wally Q

(Heck, I just want SFU in HD).

I've watched the last three seasons of Six Feet Under in HD. Would pay for a Blu-ray of that too, though. I think I watched it seven years ago. Have been looking for an excuse to watch it again.

[rikimaru]

Originally Posted by Wally Q

And The Pacific. And Six Feet Under. Those are the only three HBO series from the back catalogue that I desire (Heck, I just want SFU in HD).

don't forget Carnivale, Boardwalk Empire, Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm and even Rome was great as well.

[ThulsaMike88]

The grit and grime of Deadwood would be great on 4k blu too. Can't wait to pick this one up though.

[Wally Q]

Originally Posted by rikimaru

don't forget Carnivale, Boardwalk Empire, Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm and even Rome was great as well.

I'd be really curious to see how The Sopranos would look. I'm just going to be real good with the BD set for a long time with it.

Oz would also be a welcome HD visit.

[KdenN83]

Originally Posted by NoFro

Thank you for your sacrifice. I'm considering importing The Mask of Zorro to increase the chances of a UK release for others.

You're welcome. Could've been worse tho, as I was also thinking about buying the BD Collectors Set. Thank the gods I didn't do that!

Now, if you can do that for Zorro, I'd be very happy

[OutOfBoose]

Originally Posted by BluProofie

Season 1 was shot on HDCAM. The rest of the show looks very different.

No, there are some scenes in s1 on UHD, that were filtered to the point of erasing skin detail on characters. Maybe it's encoding error or whatever... I'm in no rush to buy a flawed release. There are obvious gains on UHD - shadows, lights, encoding, bump in detail. And it's worth buying the set for that, but I'll probably wait if selective filtering is spread across the series. Or there are some other nasty surprises.

[nick4Knight]

Originally Posted by rikimaru

don't forget Carnivale, Boardwalk Empire, Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm and even Rome was great as well.

Boardwalk Empire with it's aesthetic would be amazing. And Deadwood would be pretty great, too.

I think for HBO shows I will relinquish my long-held 4K UHD protocol of only individual releases. As GOT and any others will likely only be in full series boxsets. Gotta adapt or die, as Billy Bean mused; written via Aaron Sorkin.

[jerclay]

The Wire all the way!

[Bn43]

Originally Posted by jerclay

The Wire all the way!

Original aspect ratio. There's so much cropped in widescreen. Almost every shot. I'm sure none of the shows listed on this page will come to UHD anyway, though.

[hoejunter]

Originally Posted by Bn43

Original aspect ratio. There's so much cropped in widescreen. Almost every shot. The Wire on UHD will never happen anyway, though.

Oh really? I didn’t know that! I thought that the people who created the widescreen HD remaster apparently did a good job?

[Bn43]

Originally Posted by hoejunter

Oh really? I didn’t know that! I thought that the people who created the widescreen HD remaster apparently did a good job?

They did the best they could, but had to compromise quite a bit. David Simon said as much.

"And even with our best resizing, touchups and maneuver, there are some things that are simply not as good. That’s the inevitability: This new version, after all, exists in an aspect ratio that simply wasn’t intended or serviced by the filmmakers."

I did a comparison of one episode here:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...postcount=1837

If the DVD versions didn't look so crappy even for DVD, I'd watch those again.

[hoejunter]

Originally Posted by Bn43

They did the best they could, but had to compromise quite a bit. David Simon said as much.

"And even with our best resizing, touchups and maneuver, there are some things that are simply not as good. That’s the inevitability: This new version, after all, exists in an aspect ratio that simply wasn’t intended or serviced by the filmmakers."

I did a comparison of one episode here:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...postcount=1837

If the DVD versions didn't look so crappy even for DVD, I'd watch those again.

Some shots aren’t so bad but then there’s others that are really chopped up. I take it the complete series Blu set only has the 16:9 version?

[Alwayshappy]

Great news, but I already double dipped on GoT (the individual Blu-Ray seasons and later the Limited Complete Series + season 1 and season 8 in 4k), so I'm not sure I'd be able to justify this. We're buying a house and moving this fall, so that doesn't help

[ROSS.T.G.]

We knew it was coming. I just watched them last fast, I’ll likely wait for a sale.