James Bond Individual Films + Digital HD | 09/15/15

[StingingVelvet]

Surely just an authoring error on the new edition, I doubt they intentionally blocked them.

[bmwracer]

Originally Posted by StingingVelvet

Surely just an authoring error on the new edition, I doubt they intentionally blocked them.

When I contacted Fox about this, they seemed completely unaware of this error.

[phraseturner]

Didn't Wal-mart offer an exclusive, cheaper version of the Skyfall disc that was no-frills? I vaguely remember there being something like a $14.99 version available around the time of release that was only available at Wal-mart and seemed to be a striped-down Netflix rental type of disc. Perhaps that is what was shipped to you?

[bmwracer]

Originally Posted by phraseturner

Didn't Wal-mart offer an exclusive, cheaper version of the Skyfall disc that was no-frills? I vaguely remember there being something like a $14.99 version available around the time of release that was only available at Wal-mart and seemed to be a striped-down Netflix rental type of disc. Perhaps that is what was shipped to you?

I suppose it could be... I bought this from Amazon for $7.88.

That said, the extras are on the disc... You just can't access them through a standalone player apparently.

Weird.

[baheidstu]

Today marks the 40th Anniversary of the London premiere of this classic on July 7, 1977:



Having the film released on 7/7/77 was significant. In the original novel of You Only Live Twice, Bond is reassigned and his number is changed from 007 to 7777.

[90s_kid]

The website lists these as having slipcovers:

Dr. No
Live and Let Die
For Your Eyes Only
Die Another Day
Skyfall

But I've never seen any of these come with slips. Is it a mistake?

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by 90s_kid

The website lists these as having slipcovers:

Dr. No
Live and Let Die
For Your Eyes Only
Die Another Day
Skyfall

But I've never seen any of these come with slips. Is it a mistake?

Not sure about Skyfall but I do remember seeing slip covers on some of those original Bond releases from 2008.

[BluProofie]

Originally Posted by RCRochester

Not sure about Skyfall but I do remember seeing slip covers on some of those original Bond releases from 2008.

The first release of Skyfall had one.

[imsounoriginal]

Originally Posted by 90s_kid

The website lists these as having slipcovers:

Dr. No
Live and Let Die
For Your Eyes Only
Die Another Day
Skyfall

But I've never seen any of these come with slips. Is it a mistake?

All the original releases from 2008 had slips (Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Licence to Kill, TWINE, Die Another Day).

The first releases of Skyfall and Spectre had slipcovers.

Walmart had exclusive gatefold slipcovers for the Spectre wave that got Steelbooks at Best Buy (Russia, Thunderball, YOLT, OHMSS, Diamonds are Forever, For Your Eyes Only, and the first three Craigs IIRC).

I think that's it.

[steve_dave]

I have the Fox Connect exclusive gatefold slipcover for Skyfall that features the portraits of the leads on each panel.

[90s_kid]

Originally Posted by imsounoriginal

All the original releases from 2008 had slips (Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Licence to Kill, TWINE, Die Another Day).

The first releases of Skyfall and Spectre had slipcovers.

Walmart had exclusive gatefold slipcovers for the Spectre wave that got Steelbooks at Best Buy (Russia, Thunderball, YOLT, OHMSS, Diamonds are Forever, For Your Eyes Only, and the first three Craigs IIRC).

I think that's it.

So the website is inaccurate, then? I'm speaking specifically about the white background newer releases.

[Mikezilla3k]

Does this have a digital code?

[Tom Sharky]

With regard to the individual Blu-ray releases for the American market, the October 2008 release, the October 2012 release and the September 2015 release - they basically all use the same transfer and, thus, have the same image quality, right?

I have some of the Connery 2008-era Blu-ray releases and was thinking that there likely wasn't any point in buying the 2012 or 2015 releases, as I was thinking that they used the exact same transfer and were just released to cash in on the release of QOS, Skyfall and Spectre.

[Dailyan]

Originally Posted by Tom Sharky

With regard to the individual Blu-ray releases for the American market, the October 2008 release, the October 2012 release and the September 2015 release - they basically all use the same transfer and, thus, have the same image quality, right?

I have some of the Connery 2008-era Blu-ray releases and was thinking that there likely wasn't any point in buying the 2012 or 2015 releases, as I was thinking that they used the exact same transfer and were just released to cash in on the release of QOS, Skyfall and Spectre.

Same discs.

[chip75]

Originally Posted by Tom Sharky

With regard to the individual Blu-ray releases for the American market, the October 2008 release, the October 2012 release and the September 2015 release - they basically all use the same transfer and, thus, have the same image quality, right?

I have some of the Connery 2008-era Blu-ray releases and was thinking that there likely wasn't any point in buying the 2012 or 2015 releases, as I was thinking that they used the exact same transfer and were just released to cash in on the release of QOS, Skyfall and Spectre.

I think all the US BDs are identical, regardless of what wave they arrive in.

[Tom Sharky]

Originally Posted by Dailyan

Same discs.

Thanks. Now, a 4k question: Amazon Prime Video has 4k versions of many of the movies available for streaming. For those who have the Blu-ray versions of the movies and who have seen the 4k Amazon Prime Video streaming versions - Do the 4k Amazon streaming versions look significantly better than any of the available Blu-ray releases? I would assume that they have to.

[Dailyan]

Originally Posted by Tom Sharky

Thanks. Now, a 4k question: Amazon Prime Video has 4k versions of many of the movies available for streaming. For those who have the Blu-ray versions of the movies and who have seen the 4k Amazon Prime Video streaming versions - Do the 4k Amazon streaming versions look significantly better than any of the available Blu-ray releases? I would assume that they have to.

"GoldenEye" is definitely. better on the stream/digital. I'm not too sure about the other pre-Craig films though.

[LMFAObros]

Originally Posted by Dailyan

"GoldenEye" is definitely. better on the stream/digital. I'm not too sure about the other pre-Craig films though.

Ive heard that some of the later on moore films later on in his career have better 4K masters on streaming than the BDs as well as GoldFinger being a newer 4K remaster as well as Thunderball being fixed supposedly. The only 4K stream I have watched so far was Goldeneye on Stan synched up to the BDs Audio with atrocious encoding but the master is fantastic compared to the DNRed and Crushed BD

[Drooch]

The Living Daylights 4K looks as bad or worse than the blu, Goldeneye looks significantly better.

[Agent Kay]

Originally Posted by Drooch

The Living Daylights 4K looks as bad or worse than the blu, Goldeneye looks significantly better.

Bollocks does it