What are you still waiting for on Blu-ray Disc?

Roll on May 12th and this Criterion Collection gem:

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  • NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
  • Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray
  • Two audio commentaries, one from 1991, featuring director John Sturges and composer Elmer Bernstein; the other, from 2004, featuring actors James Coburn, James Garner, and Donald Pleasence
  • New interview with critic Michael Sragow
  • "The Great Escape": Heroes Underground, a four-part 2001 documentary about the real-life escape from the Stalag Luft III prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, including interviews with POWs held there
  • The Real Virgil Hilts: A Man Called Jones, a 2001 program on the United States Army Air Forces pilot David Jones, the inspiration for Steve McQueen's character in the film
  • Return to "The Great Escape," a 1993 program featuring interviews with Coburn, Garner, actors David McCallum and Jud Taylor, stuntman Bud Ekins, and McQueen's son, Chad McQueen
  • Trailer
  • PLUS: An essay by critic Sheila O'Malley
 
I'm amazed that star trek voyager has never come out on bluray. I rate this a being second only to star trek original series in the St ranks.
Short answer is it wasn't made on film or HD video but on standard video and remastering to try to get it pseudo HD would cost more money than it was worth.


But TNG, DS9 and Voyager could not be rescanned and released in Full HD, as the original edited programs only existed on tape at NTSC resolution.

Robert Meyer Burnett: They absolutely would. Unlike TNG, which shot both all of their live-action and all of their model photography on 35mm film, which made scanning the original elements possible, both DS9 and Voyager made extensive use of CGI for their visual effects, especially in the later seasons. Those visual effects were rendered in standard NTSC resolution, with a maximum of 525 scan lines of resolution per second, split between two interlaced video fields of 262.5 scan lines running at 60 fields per second. So, the original resolution remains far, far below what audiences used to today’s HD, and now UHD resolutions, are accustomed to. These VFX could be upscaled 5x, but they’d have no detail. The Starship Defiant would look like a fuzzy, grey blob.
 
Still waiting for these ones:

1. The Limey
2. Deep Cover
3. Ricochet
4. The Beach
5. The Golden Child
6. Unlawful Entry
7. Stakeout

Finally The Limey is coming out on 6th April from Lionsgate.:clap:

Unlawful Entry has a German release which I got recently.

Would also like:

Panic Room
Top Secret!
Breakdown
 
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Rob Reiner's The Sure Thing came out on blu-ray in Germany last week. I know that there are quite a few fans here on AVForums, myself included. My favourite John Cusack film and I also think it's the best teen romantic comedy of all time. Known as Der Volltreffer in Germany, the German blu-ray only has a stereo audio track and doesn't have the 5.1 track that the (region locked) north American disc has. Don't think that there's anything else on the disc apart from the film.

It's currently €9,99 on Amazon Germany. It's a must own for me and I'll buy it some time later this year as The Sure Thing is a Christmas movie to me. A UK disc was announced a few years ago but sadly never actually went on sale.

 
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Some I'd like to see on blu-ray
  • Goodbye Mr Chips (1939).
  • The man who came to dinner (1942).
  • Smilla’s sense of snow.
  • Lovers of the Arctic Circle
  • The Shootist.
Plus others already mentioned here like 8-legged freaks, Lone Star, Abyss, Sonatine (1984), Murder by Death. I just finally retired my Bob Hope HDDVDs in anticipation of catching up with them on blu ray. I wont miss the noise of the HDDVD player...
I'd also love to see Evolution (2001) reissued on blu ray (I have it on D-VHS, but that's clunky) and better versions of House of Flying Daggers, and Twilight Samurai. Always more.
Chris
 
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Musa the Warrior. One of my favourite films. Korean epic with Zhang Ziyi. The cinematography is absolutely beautiful. It's available to buy on Google Play in the US but not here :(. Would love an HD copy. Have the UK DVD and the uncut version imported from China.
 
The Shootist had a german Blu ray release but now oop. Murder By Death is available from Amazon.es

Thanks for that, I ordered it.
Chris
 
Desperate Journey. What a movie. I'm watching the dvd right now. Its a brilliant romp as Erroll creates havoc in Germany and just about everywhere else on his way back to blighty.
I expect that political correctness will ensure this never gets a release.
We live in hope.
 
The Salton Sea.
 
Alligator
Beastmaster (Australian version sucks)
Starchaser Legend of Orin 3D
Bad Taste
Braindead (aka dead alive)
Meet the Feebles
Buffy the vampire Slayer series!!!!!!!!
Of unknown origin (region free)
 
But only if they actually fix the colour correction! The HD versions on Prime are doggydoo! :mad:

They are dodgy, the framing needs fixing on the first few seasons but it’s just such a tantalising tease as to what is possible. But I guess that is now stuck in the Disney vault, but if they ever do it please throw in Angel as well.
 
They are dodgy, the framing needs fixing on the first few seasons but it’s just such a tantalising tease as to what is possible. But I guess that is now stuck in the Disney vault, but if they ever do it please throw in Angel as well.
The few eps I've sat through where it is noticeable it has absolutely ruined it. I'm happy with DVD for now but yes, Angel is a must (I prefer it to Buffy, truth be told)
 
Apologies if this has been discussed already but I would love to see a Blu ray release of The Beach (DiCaprio). Did this ever have a release anywhere outside of UK?
 
Admittedly, not exactly a blockbuster and certainly an 8/10 on the “it’s a bit odd“ scale, but I couldn’t pass this for £8.26 from WowHD, released in the U.S. on the 1st of December:

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I am sorry to say that the parallax view won't be coming out on bluray. I found out its yet another classic movie optioned by criterion. They have no intention of bringing it out.along with clssxcs such as Klute, arsenic and old and Bringing up baby.

Criterion to release 'The Parallax View' in February.

The Parallax View

Once again, egg - meet face!

So that's 'Klute' and 'The Parallax View' released now. Any other dazzling prognostications for us? ;)
 
Criterion to release 'The Parallax View' in February.

The Parallax View

Once again, egg - meet face!

So that's 'Klute' and 'The Parallax View' released now. Any other dazzling prognostications for us? ;)

....wow, finally!!! :)
 
Blood Diamond on UHD pleeeeeease
 
Annual Update.

1. Browning Version, The (1951) - Come on Criterion, come on Second Sight.
2. Come and See - Criterion are apparently set to release this later in 2020.
3. Conspiracy (2001) - Amazon are streaming this in HD...but only in the US.
4. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931 & 1941) - Hopefully WAC.
5. Freaks - Hopefully WAC.
6. Fury (1936) - WAC are doing great work, so I hope this comes soon. They've put out lots of noir, and Fritz Lang
7. Play It Again, Sam - Paramount, so who knows. Eureka/MoC? Paramount are licencing out to a few labels in the US.
8. Seventh Victim, The - Along with Curse of the Cat People and The Body Snatcher, Shout Factory have added Lewton's Leopard Man and Body Snatcher, so I'm very hopeful.
9. Swimming Pool (2003) - Out in Germany...but with no English subs for the French parts
10. Whose Life is it Anyway? - Still hoping for WAC.
11. Z - Still hoping for Criterion to revisit this one.

Let's see where we are at the end of the year.

Well, where are we? The annual update.

1. Browning Version, The (1951) - Come on Criterion, come on Second Sight. Still nothing.
2. Come and See - Criterion are apparently set to release this later in 2020. Well, this has appeared. Well done, Criterion.
3. Conspiracy (2001) - Amazon are streaming this in HD...but only in the US. Still nothing.
4. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931 & 1941) - Hopefully WAC. Still nothing.
5. Freaks - Hopefully WAC. Still nothing.
6. Fury (1936) - WAC are doing great work, so I hope this comes soon. They've put out lots of noir, and Fritz Lang. Still nothing.
7. Play It Again, Sam - Paramount, so who knows. Eureka/MoC? Paramount are licencing out to a few labels in the US. Still nothing.
8. Seventh Victim, The - Along with Curse of the Cat People and The Body Snatcher, Shout Factory have added Lewton's Leopard Man and Body Snatcher, so I'm very hopeful. Shout stopped releasing these, but WAC have started, so a good chance there.
9. Swimming Pool (2003) - Out in Germany...but with no English subs for the French parts. Still nothing.
10. Whose Life is it Anyway? - Still hoping for WAC. Still nothing.
11. Z - Still hoping for Criterion to revisit this one. Still nothing.

So, we've had Come and See, which we knew was coming anyway. Otherwise, that's a poor year.
 
Given Woody's current status Play It Again Sam might be a non-starter.Great movie.
 
Mostly TV series for me. Most wanted include:
  • From Earth to the Moon (promised by HBO for HD DVD release within the first 'two years'!!!)
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation / Deep Space Nine / Voyager / Enterprise
  • Into The Storm (HBO/BBC)
  • Misc BBC dramas from the recent past (e.g. Cambridge Spies, The Long Firm, Charles II: Power & The Passion, Survivors remake etc)
 
Waiting better restaurations of:

Gone with the Wind ...
Romeo and Juliet (Zeffirelli) ...
 

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