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shopkins82
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Post subject: What's your White Album - Title owned on the MOST FORMATS? Posted: 23 Apr 2021, 21:44 |
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What's your White Album... I.E. the title you have owned on the most different formats? Mine isn't the most interesting, but it's definitely the Star Wars Original Trilogy. Over the years I've owned it on 6 physical formats and 12 total versions (some identical, just different media):
VHS (Faces 4:3) VHS (SE 4:3) VCD (SE Malaysian Import) DVD (Pirate Faces LD Rip) DVD (Pirate SE LD Rip) Laserdisc (SE) DVD (2004 SE) DVD (2006 SE w/ Faces LD bonus) BluRay Disc (2011 SE) UHD Streaming (D+ SE) Laserdisc (Faces) UHD Disc (Skywalker Saga Box Set)
I think CED is the only officially release consumer format I haven't owned. After this, Apollo 13 and Independence Day are both second with VHS, LD, DVD (multiple versions), BD (multiple versions), and UHD purchases.
What title have you bought the most versions of and on the most different formats?
Last edited by shopkins82 on 24 Apr 2021, 06:00, edited 1 time in total.
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shopkins82
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Post subject: Re: What's your White Album - Title owned on the MOST FORMAT Posted: 24 Apr 2021, 19:41 |
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spudeus wrote: What's weird of course, is that not only is there a difference between the unaltered films and the DVD, but between the DVDs and later editions. And 'Mclunky' on the lastest. . . boy everyone should have just let it be. The first time I saw it in theaters was the SE in '97 when I was in 8th grade... so, as maligned as it is, it's my baseline. I didn't list them, but 4K77/4K83 and ESB Despecialized are how I watch when I want to see them pre-SE. Otherwise, I watch the UHD discs for overall quality. Mclunky is dumb but doesn't really bother me... the only change that REALLY bothers me is Hayden as Anakin in RotJ.
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Post subject: Re: What's your White Album - Title owned on the MOST FORMAT Posted: 25 Apr 2021, 01:32 |
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spudeus wrote: boy everyone should have just let it be. How when there is money to be made, the diehard fans keep buying every version out of the same film and they keep feeding it to you. Reminds me of when I went to see a rockabilly band and the guy made a joke. How many rockabilly fans does it change a light bulb, 100, 1 to change it and all 100 to complain that they liked the original better
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Post subject: Re: What's your White Album - Title owned on the MOST FORMAT Posted: 25 Apr 2021, 15:12 |
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Well, speaking for this (and maybe others) fanboy, I'm always re-buying for the capacity of the format. . .the irresistible need to see the OT in anamorphic widescreen, or with digital surround, or lossless sound, or with HDR applied, etc. I'm not upgrading for the strange little tweaks and inferior CG insertions.
@shopkins The '97 re-releases did get some things right - they cleaned up and improved the optical effects, and I liked the Biggs/Luke scene as that was definitely needed. But most of the additional content distracted, messed up the pacing, and just didn't look right, imo.
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shopkins82
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Post subject: Re: What's your White Album - Title owned on the MOST FORMAT Posted: 25 Apr 2021, 17:03 |
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spudeus wrote: Well, speaking for this (and maybe others) fanboy, I'm always re-buying for the capacity of the format. . .the irresistible need to see the OT in anamorphic widescreen, or with digital surround, or lossless sound, or with HDR applied, etc. I'm not upgrading for the strange little tweaks and inferior CG insertions.
@shopkins The '97 re-releases did get some things right - they cleaned up and improved the optical effects, and I liked the Biggs/Luke scene as that was definitely needed. But most of the additional content distracted, messed up the pacing, and just didn't look right, imo. I agree wholeheartedly on both counts... though, honestly, since it's how I first saw it in theaters, I'll generally take most of the good over the bad. Honestly, from a 1-6 continuity standpoint, swapping in Hayden as Anakin in RotJ probably makes the most sense of all the changes that weren't purely technical, but it's also the one that takes me out of the moment the most and my least favorite. Before we get too OT about the OT... anyone else have a title you've bought multiple times on multiple formats/versions? I find it hard to believe I'm still in the lead... I know there a plenty of MUCH more hardcore cinephiles and videophiles around here than me.
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Post subject: Re: What's your White Album - Title owned on the MOST FORMAT Posted: 25 Apr 2021, 21:08 |
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signofzeta wrote: Yeah, but nobody buys more redundant stuff than Star Wars fans Except maybe DBZ fans.
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Post subject: Re: What's your White Album - Title owned on the MOST FORMAT Posted: 26 Apr 2021, 03:44 |
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takeshi666 wrote: signofzeta wrote: Yeah, but nobody buys more redundant stuff than Star Wars fans Except maybe DBZ fans. And Looney Tunes...
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Post subject: Re: What's your White Album - Title owned on the MOST FORMAT Posted: 26 Apr 2021, 10:47 |
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signofzeta wrote: takeshi666 wrote: signofzeta wrote: Yeah, but nobody buys more redundant stuff than Star Wars fans Except maybe DBZ fans. And Looney Tunes... At least you usually got new shorts with every release, unlike DBZ which just re-released the same old content, improved in some ways but then also made worse in others. And what was the name of that one release Funimation put out but didn't even finish before cranking out the orange bricks instead?
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shopkins82
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Post subject: Re: What's your White Album - Title owned on the MOST FORMAT Posted: 27 Apr 2021, 02:28 |
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signofzeta wrote: Yeah, but nobody buys more redundant stuff than Star Wars fans so you or another SW fan will likely win this. Most hardcore movie people only want or need like two different versions of something max. Very solid point... though, most of my purchases were order-of-magnitude technical upgrades as it was released on each new format (the only real exceptions being the VCDs [the first fully digital format it was released on] and the Faces LDs [which were recent and just for display]).
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Post subject: Re: What's your White Album - Title owned on the MOST FORMAT Posted: 27 Apr 2021, 12:18 |
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shopkins82 wrote: signofzeta wrote: Yeah, but nobody buys more redundant stuff than Star Wars fans so you or another SW fan will likely win this. Most hardcore movie people only want or need like two different versions of something max. Very solid point... though, most of my purchases were order-of-magnitude technical upgrades as it was released on each new format (the only real exceptions being the VCDs [the first fully digital format it was released on] and the Faces LDs [which were recent and just for display]). Exactly. VCD was basically the worst format ever and you already had the VHS but you bought it. The LDs were decades old and useless by the time you bought them. Most fans of The Godfather or Akira Kurosawa would never buy such things. That is, useless discs that will never be watched. That’s not really a movie fan thing it’s a collector thing. If you give most people a well done 1080p Blu-ray of their favorite movie they’ll likely be happy with it forever, freeing them up to buy the next movie. An official and well done 1080p BR of SW does not exist so you guys will buy everything else forever. It’s like getting the action figures. You want them ALL, even Lobot. Nobody who’s favorite movie is The Godfather wants a Lobot.
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Post subject: Re: What's your White Album - Title owned on the MOST FORMAT Posted: 27 Apr 2021, 13:41 |
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signofzeta wrote: shopkins82 wrote: signofzeta wrote: Yeah, but nobody buys more redundant stuff than Star Wars fans so you or another SW fan will likely win this. Most hardcore movie people only want or need like two different versions of something max. Very solid point... though, most of my purchases were order-of-magnitude technical upgrades as it was released on each new format (the only real exceptions being the VCDs [the first fully digital format it was released on] and the Faces LDs [which were recent and just for display]). Exactly. VCD was basically the worst format ever and you already had the VHS but you bought it. The LDs were decades old and useless by the time you bought them. Most fans of The Godfather or Akira Kurosawa would never buy such things. That is, useless discs that will never be watched. That’s not really a movie fan thing it’s a collector thing. If you give most people a well done 1080p Blu-ray of their favorite movie they’ll likely be happy with it forever, freeing them up to buy the next movie. An official and well done 1080p BR of SW does not exist so you guys will buy everything else forever. It’s like getting the action figures. You want them ALL, even Lobot. Nobody who’s favorite movie is The Godfather wants a Lobot. I feel kind of personally attacked here.
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