Band of Brothers Blu-ray box art emerges from fog of war
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mitchell @ Jul 7th 2008 3:48PM
honestly who buys these? I have a hard enough time buying a $20 movie yet alone a $100+ TV Show.
Mitchell
bobthehdbuilder @ Jul 7th 2008 4:19PM
Nfinity - OR, people actually want the series in HD....until now it was only available in HD-DVD, and only in Japanese.
Truth Teller @ Jul 7th 2008 5:12PM
Nfinity, you're right.
This is the heart of the matter, the bit the kiddies playing fanboy refuse (or are simply not equipped) to face
(......they call it 'politics'; ie they can't wait to push the instant 'turn off & go to sleep sheeple' button themselves; self-administered stupidity.....the industry has them well trained in asking no questions and avoiding any independent critical thought)
The studios are pulling the same stunt the music industry pulled when they switched to CD.
Re-release a vast stack of content (which had all it's production costs paid off long long ago) and charge the very top $ for it.
.....and they wonder why people share.
The biggest 'pirates' any of us (including the artists) will ever face are the talent-free accountants and marketing leaches, incapable of doing anything but give us a bad deal & try to rob us blind.
Still, beads for the natives, right, anything shiny eh?
JimC @ Jul 7th 2008 6:14PM
I will be buying these...
DEEZNUTZ @ Jul 7th 2008 9:38PM
@Nfinity:
"The sweetest money for them is when they re-release the same movie on Blu-Ray.. replace DD+ 1.5 audio with TrueHD and then sell it for $30 again.. what easy money eh? But that's what brainwashed fanboys do"
Yeah, says the guy that confessed to owning over 100 Blu-Ray movies... how many of those BD movies you own are catalog titles you re-bought? Silly boy.
DrXym @ Jul 8th 2008 5:05AM
Nfinity a few months back: "Can't wait for the new Clint Eastwood "Dirty Harry" ultimate collection from Warner on HD DVD"
Truth Teller a month ago: "The Matrix, Casino, Goodfellas, Planet Earth and a stack more in my collection are never going to be "stale"."
So it's alright for you to purchase a catalogue title in HD / double dip, but woe betide anyone who wants to do it themselves?
Morons. Hypocrites.
Truth Teller @ Jul 8th 2008 8:07AM
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Truth Teller a month ago: "The Matrix, Casino, Goodfellas, Planet Earth and a stack more in my collection are never going to be "stale"."
So it's alright for you to purchase a catalogue title in HD / double dip, but woe betide anyone who wants to do it themselves?
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No you moron.
Where did I ever mention I was double-dipping those titles - and how come you chose to leave the (major) point about cost out of it, huh?
As per you have managed to completely miss the point.
The movie industry are doing what music industry did.
They are charging the absolute top dollar on content they already recovered their costs/investment in.
I have bought myself a nice little high def collection for peanuts.
I did not pay top dollar, that's the kind of thing you PS3 fools are up to.
Are you professionally stupid or is it just a hobby you happen to be very good at?
DrXym @ Jul 8th 2008 8:58AM
Baby, you agreed with Nfinity and added "Re-release a vast stack of content (which had all it's production costs paid off long long ago) and charge the very top $ for it.". When you have previously boasted about owning number of catalogue titles yourself. And if you bothered to read what I wrote you would know I didn't say you double dipped.
So how come you choose to whinge about Band of Brothers on Blu Ray? Why is it alright for you to own catalogue titles such as Casino and Goodfellas, but not alright for somebody else to? Why did you choose to piss and moan that others do something you do yourself?
Because you are a hypocritical cry baby who still can't get over your precious format losing. Grow up little girl.
Truth Teller @ Jul 8th 2008 10:45AM
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you agreed with Nfinity and added "Re-release a vast stack of content (which had all it's production costs paid off long long ago) and charge the very top $ for it.". When you have previously boasted about owning number of catalogue titles yourself. And if you bothered to read what I wrote you would know I didn't say you double dipped.
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Yes, well it's obvious that your comprehension 'skills' are about as impressive as your debating 'skills'.
If you really can't/don't understand it's probably best if you just keep quiet.
Pathetic.
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So how come you choose to whinge about Band of Brothers on Blu Ray?
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Er, I made a general point about the strategy of top dollar catalogue releases and have commented later on $100+ releases as well as multiple disc releases.
Just because you are too dim to do anything but try your usual shoe-horning it all into a 'defense' of your beloved format.
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DrXym
Why is it alright for you to own catalogue titles such as Casino and Goodfellas, but not alright for somebody else to?
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Er, I never said it wasn't ok.
What I said was especially stupid was people (like you) buying into the whole idea that you pay top dollar for catalogue releases.
Something I have never done, actually.
I paid buttons for my HD DVD movies, the majority of which were bought after the Toshiba statement in Feb for about £4 - £5 ($8 - $10) each.
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Why did you choose to piss and moan that others do something you do yourself?
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Is English your 2nd language?
I was actually laughing at people like you and I am not doing what you are doing at all. fool.
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DrXym
Because you are a hypocritical cry baby who still can't get over your precious format losing. Grow up little girl.
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Jayzuss wept, I thought it couldn't get any more ludicrous, but no.
Your feeble little swipe gets just that little bit funnier.
You really are a sad little gormless twit.
I take it the answer to my original question is that your are just a highly gifted amatuer then, eh?
DEEZNUTZ @ Jul 8th 2008 10:37AM
@ Truth Teller:
"... have bought myself a nice little high def collection for peanuts."
And you always conveniently omit the reason why you were able to obtain those movies for "peanuts".
wait for it...
...because the format you purchased those movies in died. You just took advantage of the demise of your format of choice (not that theres anything wrong with that) but that is by no means a base for comparing against BD movie prices. I can guarantee HD DVD movies would have been priced the same had it won the format war.
I can also say I would have supported it to the same degree I support BD now. But carry on. I really hope Toshiba is paying you to write all the non-sense you post here.
obuck347 @ Jul 8th 2008 10:47AM
I have been waiting to upgrade from dvd to hi-def for this box set. Not only will I buy this set, I will buy a Blu-Ray player as well.
Truth Teller @ Jul 8th 2008 10:53AM
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And you always conveniently omit the reason why you were able to obtain those movies for "peanuts".
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It's true that HD DVDs were not always as inexpensive as they are now, I'm not denyiong it and I've never said different.
But nevertheless it is also a fact that I was always able to get my HD DVDs for a lot less than the going rate for Blu-ray discs.
......and at the end of the day what do I care how it worked out?
I still ended up with a very tidy collection of over 100 classic movies in high def for peanuts
(along with a ridiculously cheap 2nd player in case of accidents or breakdown).
You guys seem to have deluded uyourselves into 'thinking' that I would be doing anything but laughing all the way to the bank over that.
Hey, you never know, when Blu-ray inevitably goes t!ts up I might even buy into that too and scoop a load of cheapy high def movies when the time comes.
DrXym @ Jul 8th 2008 11:58AM
Poor baby clearly can't understand the hypocrisy of moaning about an HD catalogue title (even dismissing anyone who might DARE want it) while proudly boasting elsewhere of owning HD catalogue titles. Fortunately everyone else can. Perhaps that's why you and Nfinity are consistently the lowest ranked users in every single thread you stink up with your crybaby whining. Grow up your precious format lost.
Truth Teller @ Jul 8th 2008 12:17PM
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Poor baby clearly can't understand the hypocrisy of moaning about an HD catalogue title (even dismissing anyone who might DARE want it) while proudly boasting elsewhere of owning HD catalogue titles.
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Wow, there's that laughable comprehension at work, again.
Do you have to work hard at being so dumb, put in extra hours and such-like?
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DrXym
Fortunately everyone else can.
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LMAO
Ludicrous delusions of grandeur to go with it too.
You think you can talk for everyone now?
Quell surprise.
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Perhaps that's why you and Nfinity are consistently the lowest ranked users in every single thread
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Now you take refuge in the ranking system!?
LMAO
You just get ever-more pathetic.
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DrXym
Grow up your precious format lost.
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LMAO
Everytime you make a fool of yourself repeating this stunningly feeble juvenile cat-call I laugh out loud at you.
Doc @ Jul 7th 2008 3:59PM
WOW I love this series! The only thing keeping me from buy this would be price. I for one have been waiting for the new series in the Pacific theater to start, but that is next year..:(
daphatty @ Jul 7th 2008 5:45PM
I'm buying this because a) I haven't purchased the Band of Brothers series yet and b) because this is worth every penny. Not everyone who "buys these" are "brainwashed fanboys that will buy anything on Blu-Ray just to help the format."
DVD4ME @ Jul 7th 2008 7:56PM
I just bought this on DVD for $35, I stagger to think what it will cost on blu, the DVD sound and picture quality is superb.
keithgregoire @ Jul 7th 2008 8:47PM
@bobthehdbuilder: Nfinity - OR, people actually want the series in HD....until now it was only available in HD-DVD, and only in Japanese.
Untrue, the main audio track on the HD DVD release was English in DTS-HD. (Japanese is also available in DTS-HD.)
This is a stellar audio and video experience on HD DVD. If you love this series, I'm sure the Blu-Ray will be just as good!
Ron @ Jul 7th 2008 9:59PM
Can't wait to pick this up!
Franssu @ Jul 7th 2008 10:01PM
Kewl, an HBO series on Blu-ray... Can I has Carnivàle, Six Feet Under, Rome and Deadwood now ?
quadraphonic @ Jul 7th 2008 10:17PM
The DVD looked incredible to my eyes. I can't wait to see how the Blu-Ray shows. I imagine this will be a must have demo disc - and a fantastic series to boot!
nick @ Jul 8th 2008 12:36AM
Has anyone else noticed that it's on 6 discs? Wasn't the original DVD also 6 discs? Why is it the same amount as DVD? Is it because of the audio? I noticed additional video material, but I can't imagine that taking up all the room.
Truth Teller @ Jul 8th 2008 8:12AM
People like multi-disc special editions, it makes them thing they are getting something extra.
Besides I'd bet the discs are 25gb single layer discs (to cut costs).
It's a myth that Blu-ray was ever going to go 50gb DL disc as a simple matter of course
(almost 50% of every Blu-ray release so far is on the 25gb single layer disc).
So much for that spec/size advantage, eh?
DrXym @ Jul 8th 2008 9:03AM
So baby is saying that 50% of discs use the extra space but somehow that means that space is not needed? Grow up baby your precious format lost.
Truth Teller @ Jul 8th 2008 10:46AM
Dr Pathetic
Once again your comprehension 'skill's reveal you for the, um, 'challenged' type you so obviously are.
......and you really ought to take your laughably feeble & childish cat-call somewhere where they might think you are being big & clever with it
(I suggest those embarrassing fanboy muppets at Blu-ray.com, my bet is that they are just your, er, 'style').
LMAO
I know you're stuck on this hook, if you like you can keep using it & continue to look like a cretinous dullard child or you can give it up and back down.
Either way I'm laughing at you.
DrXym @ Jul 8th 2008 11:52AM
Baby, it appears you have some kind of impairment. That's the simplest explanation for you can dismissively whinge that "almost 50% of every Blu-ray release so far is on the 25gb single layer disc" which implies that 50% of disks require more space. Moreso of course for recent releases of course.
Grow up baby your precious format lost.
Truth Teller @ Jul 8th 2008 12:10PM
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LMAO
Yeah right, of course it does, Einstein.
Use of a 50gb disc must mean more space was absolutely "required".
You should be on the stage. Very funny.
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DrXym
Grow up baby your precious format lost.
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Great tactic, bamboozle me with helpless laughter (at you)?
Go & congratulate yourself to your Blu-ray.com buddies (again).
You ridiculous little twit.
1stGreg @ Jul 8th 2008 11:54AM
And everybody else is laughing at you and your buddy-psycho Nfinity, LieTeller.
You guys are the laughing stock of the online AV community, often laughed about on many forums to point out how some fanboys have never grown past the demise of HD DVD. You even embarass ex-fans of HD DVD, but I guess it's bringing you your 15 minutes of Fame, right?
If you even get to have a girlfriend or wife (god help us if any of you should actually reproduce), pray they don't realize how childish and what trolls you are, that could also be very embarassing for you guys...
Truth Teller @ Jul 8th 2008 12:03PM
Oh wow, now the bottom of the barrel is being well & truly raked out.
If you're going to rush in to help your little friend (or is it the same sad-sack with a different log-in) you might try & make it a little less craven?
"laughing stock of the AV community"!?
What, you mean you & a handful of your infantile buddies at Blu-ray.com (cos not even all of them are as laughably sad as yous to be so ar$ed) can't help gurning their eyes out everytime one of us adds a contrary view that challenges your 'Blu-ray uber alles stupidity?
Oh the humanity!
pedalhead @ Jul 17th 2008 7:35AM
I've got a 10ft wide projection screen at home, and I for one cannot wait for BoB to be released in HD as this is my favourite TV show of all time (I missed out on the HDDVD version). The difference between SD & HD on a big screen like mine is night & day. Does that make me a Blu-ray fanboy? Come on people, find something else to talk crap about.