Fox's The Towering Inferno July 14

[Galley]

Originally Posted by benricci

It wasn't. The 4 films, to my knowledge, released in that format were Earthquake, Midway, Rollercoaster and the theatrical Battlestar Galactica.

You are correct.

[Dubstar]

Originally Posted by Blu-Jawa

http://www.theblurayblog.com/2009/07...y-disc-review/

I maybe getting this one this weekend.

thankfully DVDBeaver has a superior more technical review than that lame review.

[Russell_L]

Watched the first half of it over the weekend. Thought it looked pretty darned impressive, considering the film's age. So far it's not the campfest that I thought it would be, and the pacing of the film is much more deliberate than I expected, with not a whole lot of excitement, either. Hopefully things will pick up in the second half.

[AKORIS]

not a whole lot of excitement, either. Hopefully things will pick up in the second half.[/QUOTE]



oh believe me it does!!

[Deciazulado]

Blu-ray.com Review

[Alaskankaijudude]

Originally Posted by AlaskaDon

Both of these will be day 1 purchases for me. As somebody mentioned though, M*A*S*H probably won't have the greatest picture quality. My standard DVD copy looks pretty bad. Great flick though, so any improvement is fine by me. Anybody else love the theme song? I still run into people that know only the TV series and they say "That song had lyrics?"

Great theme song...Suicide is painless.

[MainTitle]

Originally Posted by bluskies

Considering it is Fox, it probably will be. But there is a chance that WB has the foreign release rights since they produced it with Fox.

I imported a Region A copy and guess what - doesn't play in our country, unless you're one of those enterprising types that goes for a modded player.

This is highly unlikely release for Australia at the present time. Have a friend who works at Warner Home Video's headquarters in Sydney and she delved into their upcoming release lists. It is not slated for release in Australia even up to the first quarter of 2010 !!!

Thankfully, their UK counterpart is releasing a BD on November 16 and it can be played on our Region B-encoded players.

Just don't know if all the great extras that were on the 2-DVD Anniversary edition in 2005 (and which have been ported over to the Fox BD) will make the UK version.

Warner Home Video is sometimes vague on its content offerings.

[KubrickFan]

Originally Posted by MainTitle

I imported a Region A copy and guess what - doesn't play in our country, unless you're one of those enterprising types that goes for a modded player.

This is highly unlikely release for Australia at the present time. Have a friend who works at Warner Home Video's headquarters in Sydney and she delved into their upcoming release lists. It is not slated for release in Australia even up to the first quarter of 2010 !!!

Thankfully, their UK counterpart is releasing a BD on November 16 and it can be played on our Region B-encoded players.

Just don't know if all the great extras that were on the 2-DVD Anniversary edition in 2005 (and which have been ported over to the Fox BD) will make the UK version.

Warner Home Video is sometimes vague on its content offerings.

The UK version will not feature all the extras, unfortunately. It misses the following features:

* Commentary on Selected Scenes by Special Effects Director Mike Vezina
* Commentary on Selected Scenes by Stunt Coordinator Branko Racki
* "AMC Backstory: The Towering Inferno" Documentaire (22:08)
* Interactive Articles from American Cinematographer
- The Towering Inferno and How it Was Filmed" (23 pagina's)
- Photographing the Dramatic Sequences for The Towering Inferno" (26 pagina's)
- Action Unit Lives Up to its Name While Shooting The Towering Inferno" (34 pagina's)
* Still Galleries
- Shot Compositions (28 afbeeldingen)
- Publicity (41 afbeeldingen)
- Behind-the-Scenes (71 afbeeldingen)
- Conceptual Sketches (58 afbeeldingen)
- Costumes (22 afbeeldingen)

Warner will retain the DTS-HD MA track, though.

[Crimson King]

Just waiting for Fox to release The Poseidon Adventure as well!

[The Krouser]

As an extra, in the New Years Eve party scene, I have always been a big "Poseidon Adventure" fan! I have read somewhere that Fox is trying to get the original six track stereo sound elements for the bluray edition. The dvd came out in mono and the special edition dvd came out in plain stereo.
And yes, if the quality of "The Poseidon Adventure" is even close to "The Towering Inferno" I will be a very happy camper! I have a front projector set up with a 12 foot widescreen, so big movies like these like GREAT!

[Arkadin]

I have waited SOOOOOOO long for this bd to finally go down to a good sale price, and today is the day.
only $11.49!!
this bd rarely shows up under $20 although I have seen it for $15.99 a few times I think.
never this low though.
EVER.
WOO-HOO!!!

[ROclockCK]

Originally Posted by The Krouser

As an extra, in the New Years Eve party scene, I have always been a big "Poseidon Adventure" fan! I have read somewhere that Fox is trying to get the original six track stereo sound elements for the bluray edition. The dvd came out in mono and the special edition dvd came out in plain stereo.

Woo-hoo Krouser! Which shots? Time code?

I wasn't aware that 6-track sound elements even existed for this movie. Any links to this?

[Dubstar]

Originally Posted by ROclockCK

Woo-hoo Krouser! Which shots? Time code?

I wasn't aware that 6-track sound elements even existed for this movie. Any links to this?

http://www.in70mm.com/library/70mm_i...eles/index.htm

now remember though the configurement would have been five front sound, not split surround

[ROclockCK]

Originally Posted by Dubstar

http://www.in70mm.com/library/70mm_i...eles/index.htm

now remember though the configurement would have been five front sound, not split surround

Well, you learn something every day. Thanks Dubstar.

[HDTV1080P]

The Towering Inferno Blu-ray movie and extra features was enjoyable to watch. A total of 44.9GB is used on the 50GB dual layer Blu-ray disc. The Interactive galleries and still galleries are 1080P quality. However the Blu-ray review at the following link incorrectly mentions that most the extra features are 480P quality when in reality there is no 480P extra features on this Blu-ray title. When reading the following review it should say “480i” instead of saying “480p” several times. One can verify for themselves that almost all the extra features except for the still gallery type items are all 100% 480i SD quality. If one places their Blu-ray player on source direct and pushes the info button on their display it shows the incoming resolution being 480i.


https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Towering-Inferno-Blu-ray/5024/#Review

[Bolty]

Damn that shipping line suit for making them sail the tower without enough ballast!! Or was it the contractor who built the ship with substandard materials?

[mdonovan]

I have to say ... I watched the first 20 minutes of this blu tonight ... I think the colors have been adjusted ... And that is not a good thing.

The yellows seem to veer towards green more and the saturation levels seem boosted for the most part.

Fr example , the trees seem to have been painted green, and the blu skies behind the tower look extremely royal blue.

I need to compare it to the DVD ... It just looks a bit weird to me.

[steev210]

Best Buy has "The Towering Inferno" on sale for $9.99 in store. Good price for a classic disaster epic!

[mikesncc1701]

Director of The Towering Inferno has passed

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/jo...no-1201606435/

[#Darren]

I rewatched TTI tonight.

Wonderful film as always - so rewatchable.

Regarding the transfer - it could really benefit from a new state of the art scan.

What was a 4/5 PQ back in 2009 is more like a 3.5/5 PQ in 2017.