Smallville season's 1-5 - Blu-ray Forum

detective392 · 05-23-2009, 05:46 AM

I just started watching this show and I love it but season 1-5 arnt out on blu-ray has anyone heard anything I dont want to buy dvd's if they will come out on blu-ray?

Beefbowl · 05-23-2009, 06:33 AM

Season 5 is on HD-dvd. Waiting for it on blu soon so I can swap it out using the red2blue program. Not sure why it's not on BD yet.

bogo5 · 05-25-2009, 09:20 PM

Anyone know when Smallville season 4 is due on blu???

ajmrowland · 05-26-2009, 02:17 AM

It would've been announced on the site, I'm sure.

bogo5 · 10-14-2010, 10:37 AM

So i guess we have to wait for S10 to finish & wait a the complete set or something?

Fans of the early seasons being royally shafted.

u_nick · 10-14-2010, 11:25 AM

At some point it was mentioned they started working on it, but ran into some technical difficulties with season 1 (and maybe 2 as well?), so it might take longer than expected.

spidy · 10-14-2010, 03:34 PM

There was some kind of open discussion where people asked a fox rep various questions regarding blu-ray releases and it was asked about the earlier seasons of Smallville and like u_nick mentioned the WB rep replied that they are in the works and Season 1 was holding them up due to technical issues. At this point my guess would be that these will come out next August/September and all seasons of Smallville would then be available (finally!). And this is why I haven't purchased Season 9 yet. I just hope we aren't forced to buy all 10 seasons at once. That would be one expensive set!

I'm really looking forward to these coming out as I much prefer seasons 1-5 of Smallville over 6-10 as IMO the show has went downhill somewhat since. It's hard to believe there's only 19 more episodes of the show and then it will be complete.

Dynamo of Eternia · 10-14-2010, 04:06 PM

I really hope they release them individually because I already have seasons 7, 8, and 9 on Blu-Ray. I really don't want to have to rebuy everything. Plus they often put the complete series sets in gimicky packaging that I don't care for.

bogo5 · 10-25-2010, 11:02 AM

I certainly cant afford all seasons. They would have to make the full set pretty cheap otherwise no one will buy. I just want 1 & 2 for now bad.

ay221 · 10-10-2011, 10:10 PM

Anyone hear anything new on this?

HDNet just started showing season one this week. But I'm hoping to get them on blu-ray.

hardtosayx · 10-10-2011, 10:13 PM

They already said they aren't going to release them

HDMe · 10-11-2011, 01:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hardtosayx

They already said they aren't going to release them

I have seen no such word.

The last word is that they have been looking at it, but ran into some troubles.

But there has not been a definitive word on releases (or not) for 1-5.

Worst case... they released season 5 already on HD-DVD, so those absolutely can and should be released on Blu-ray because the work is already done!

The hold-up are for seasons 1-4.

The weird thing, though... is while they say they have had technical issues... they somehow provided HD transfers for syndication to HDNet... which seems confusing.

BrandonJF · 10-11-2011, 01:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HDMe

The weird thing, though... is while they say they have had technical issues... they somehow provided HD transfers for syndication to HDNet... which seems confusing.

The person speaking for WB is just full of crap. They were trying to go the route of saying that the earlier seasons weren't ready for HD (or something like that), while there are HD versions of the earlier seasons out there (HDNet, Digital Distribution). Then they had no real excuse for Season 5. The bottom line must be that they don't think there's money to be made... which is really odd given that they went back and released the earlier seasons of Supernatural - a less popular show - on Blu-Ray.

It does seem like a poor marketing move to have not thrown out a Blu-Ray version of the complete series set. They could've thrown in the first five seasons exclusive to that set and got a bunch of suckers (I would've been one of them) to double dip on season 6-9 to get the rest of the series on Blu-Ray. Then go back and release the individual seasons later.

roddyc · 10-11-2011, 01:52 AM

There was a long interview with the producers at:

http://supermanhomepage.com/news.php

some months back saying the total series would be in DVD only.
Seemed odd considering they had released the recent seasons on BR.

Clark Kent · 10-11-2011, 01:59 AM

Warner simply does not believe it will be profitable to release the older seasons on Blu-ray. That was transparent when the 5th season set, already prepared and released for HD DVD, never made it to Blu-ray.

Blu Tiger · 12-22-2011, 10:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

Warner simply does not believe it will be profitable to release the older seasons on Blu-ray. That was transparent when the 5th season set, already prepared and released for HD DVD, never made it to Blu-ray.

I haven't bought ANY seasons of Smallville yet on blu-ray. I only buy shows on blu-ray when they start with Season 1. If they released the 1-5 on blu-ray, I would buy ALL seasons immediately.

Walts Ghost · 12-22-2011, 10:54 PM

I keep hoping one day we'll see this series on blu. But I honestly don't think it'll ever happen, sadly.

ElectriCole · 01-05-2012, 12:00 PM

Just because a show is on the telly in HD doesn't mean they can slap it on a Blu-ray and ship it out. The bit rate of video on Blu-ray discs is several times higher than that of HDTV and must be encoded seperately. Also, HD-DVDs were usually encoded in 720p or 1080i, one of many reasons they lost the format war, so they can't use that either. Warner Brothers is currently in the process of remastering seasons 1-5 for Blu-ray release. No word has yet been given as to a release date but be patient people. The last son of Krypton's early years WILL be on Blu-ray sooner than you think.

m790 · 01-26-2012, 12:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ElectriCole

No word has yet been given as to a release date but be patient people. The last son of Krypton's early years WILL be on Blu-ray sooner than you think.

Speculating or is this coming from good authority?

Moviefan2k4 · 01-26-2012, 03:53 AM

From everything I've heard, WB would have to do a lot of work on the first five seasons from an FX standpoint, similar to how Paramount is working on "Star Trek: TNG". The entire series was shot on film, but the first five years' worth of FX were done in standard-def, so they'd have to be recreated from scratch. The rest of the series' episodes didn't suffer from those setbacks, because techniques had changed by then.

05-23-2009, 05:46 AM	#1
detective392 Blu-ray Baron Top contributor Member since:Jul 2008 Location:Champlin, MN Home Theater Gallery:3 Blu-ray collection:439 DVD collection:293 Blu-ray reviews:21	Smallville season's 1-5 I just started watching this show and I love it but season 1-5 arnt out on blu-ray has anyone heard anything I dont want to buy dvd's if they will come out on blu-ray?

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05-23-2009, 06:33 AM	#2
Beefbowl Blu-ray Count Top ranked HT gallery Member since:Dec 2007 Location:Guam Home Theater Gallery:20 Blu-ray collection:749 Trading Score:20	Season 5 is on HD-dvd. Waiting for it on blu soon so I can swap it out using the red2blue program. Not sure why it's not on BD yet.

05-25-2009, 09:20 PM	#3
bogo5 Senior Member Member since:Jan 2009 Location:Australia	Anyone know when Smallville season 4 is due on blu???

05-26-2009, 02:17 AM	#4
ajmrowland Senior Member Member since:Oct 2008 Blu-ray collection:77	It would've been announced on the site, I'm sure.

10-14-2010, 10:37 AM	#5
bogo5 Senior Member Member since:Jan 2009 Location:Australia	So i guess we have to wait for S10 to finish & wait a the complete set or something? Fans of the early seasons being royally shafted.

10-14-2010, 11:25 AM	#6
u_nick Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Jan 2007 Location:CT, US Trading Score:27	At some point it was mentioned they started working on it, but ran into some technical difficulties with season 1 (and maybe 2 as well?), so it might take longer than expected.

10-14-2010, 03:34 PM	#7
spidy Power Member Member since:Nov 2009 Blu-ray collection:- DVD collection:-	There was some kind of open discussion where people asked a fox rep various questions regarding blu-ray releases and it was asked about the earlier seasons of Smallville and like u_nick mentioned the WB rep replied that they are in the works and Season 1 was holding them up due to technical issues. At this point my guess would be that these will come out next August/September and all seasons of Smallville would then be available (finally!). And this is why I haven't purchased Season 9 yet. I just hope we aren't forced to buy all 10 seasons at once. That would be one expensive set! I'm really looking forward to these coming out as I much prefer seasons 1-5 of Smallville over 6-10 as IMO the show has went downhill somewhat since. It's hard to believe there's only 19 more episodes of the show and then it will be complete.

10-14-2010, 04:06 PM	#8
Dynamo of Eternia Blu-ray Knight Top contributor Member since:Dec 2007 4K collection:335 Blu-ray collection:1857 DVD collection:1573 Trading Score:3	I really hope they release them individually because I already have seasons 7, 8, and 9 on Blu-Ray. I really don't want to have to rebuy everything. Plus they often put the complete series sets in gimicky packaging that I don't care for.

10-25-2010, 11:02 AM	#9
bogo5 Senior Member Member since:Jan 2009 Location:Australia	I certainly cant afford all seasons. They would have to make the full set pretty cheap otherwise no one will buy. I just want 1 & 2 for now bad.

10-10-2011, 10:10 PM	#10
ay221 Special Member Member since:Oct 2006	Anyone hear anything new on this? HDNet just started showing season one this week. But I'm hoping to get them on blu-ray.

10-10-2011, 10:13 PM	#11
hardtosayx Blu-ray Knight Top contributor Member since:Jun 2009 Location:PA 4K collection:15 Blu-ray collection:1482 DVD collection:77 Trading Score:52	They already said they aren't going to release them

10-11-2011, 01:52 AM	#14
roddyc Junior Member Member since:Apr 2008	There was a long interview with the producers at: http://supermanhomepage.com/news.php some months back saying the total series would be in DVD only. Seemed odd considering they had released the recent seasons on BR.

10-11-2011, 01:59 AM	#15
Clark Kent Blu-ray Prince Top contributor Member since:Oct 2007 Location:Metropolis Blu-ray reviews:2 Trading Score:184	Warner simply does not believe it will be profitable to release the older seasons on Blu-ray. That was transparent when the 5th season set, already prepared and released for HD DVD, never made it to Blu-ray.

12-22-2011, 10:54 PM	#17
Walts Ghost Blu-ray Prince Top contributor Member since:Jun 2010 Location:Arizona 4K collection:783 Blu-ray collection:3086 DVD collection:177 iTunes collection:34 Blu-ray reviews: 33 Trading Score:1	I keep hoping one day we'll see this series on blu. But I honestly don't think it'll ever happen, sadly.

01-05-2012, 12:00 PM	#18
ElectriCole New Member Member since:Jan 2012	Just because a show is on the telly in HD doesn't mean they can slap it on a Blu-ray and ship it out. The bit rate of video on Blu-ray discs is several times higher than that of HDTV and must be encoded seperately. Also, HD-DVDs were usually encoded in 720p or 1080i, one of many reasons they lost the format war, so they can't use that either. Warner Brothers is currently in the process of remastering seasons 1-5 for Blu-ray release. No word has yet been given as to a release date but be patient people. The last son of Krypton's early years WILL be on Blu-ray sooner than you think.

01-26-2012, 03:53 AM	#20
Moviefan2k4 Banned Member since:Mar 2010 Location:Montgomery, TX 4K collection:44 Blu-ray collection:317 Blu-ray reviews:5 Trading Score:2	From everything I've heard, WB would have to do a lot of work on the first five seasons from an FX standpoint, similar to how Paramount is working on "Star Trek: TNG". The entire series was shot on film, but the first five years' worth of FX were done in standard-def, so they'd have to be recreated from scratch. The rest of the series' episodes didn't suffer from those setbacks, because techniques had changed by then.

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