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 Post subject: What's your White Album - Title owned on the MOST FORMATS?
PostPosted: 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?


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PostPosted: 23 Apr 2021, 22:25 
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The Wizard of Oz (1939), which I have the following editions of:

1988 Unrestored VHS
1988 Criterion CAV Laserdisc
2009 Emerald Edition Blu-Ray
2019 Best Buy Steelbook 4K Ultra HD
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PostPosted: 23 Apr 2021, 23:00 
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I was gonna list Total Recall as the one but as I tried to think of another I also had four releases of, I realized I've actually owned five different releases of Robocop:

-Fix VHS (the butchered Finnish release)
-The trilogy DVD box set
-The trilogy blu-ray box set
-Arrow Limited Edition AND Steelbook blu-rays
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PostPosted: 23 Apr 2021, 23:47 
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Royal Space Force. On LD I have both 5.1 versions, the TV size, and first box set, the US VHS and Blue Ray.

I only own The White Album on 180g LP, because I’m a frwaaaaauuud.
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PostPosted: 24 Apr 2021, 00:40 
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Only 3 come to mind, I have GE999 movies on LD and DVD, Macross on LD and bootleg DVD and I do have Space Cobra the Movie on LD and DVD
but have been planning on selling off the LD of Cobra.


EDIT: just remembered that I also own Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on LD and DVD


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 Post subject: Re: What's your White Album - Title owned on the MOST FORMAT
PostPosted: 24 Apr 2021, 07:42 
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Neon Genesis Evangelion:
ADV dvd tin (first anime purchase)
Japanese blu-ray
LD

I think the only other two titles I have three copies of are Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi (vhs, blu-ray, LD, and only have the tapes because I picked them up on a lark at a thrift store years ago). Very few tapes at my place; most of the ones I would call mine didn't follow me to college and remain with my folks.

Oh, just remembered Das Boot:
director's cut dvd
director's cut blu-ray
the ~5 hour cut dvd (miniseries version edited back into a single movie).
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PostPosted: 24 Apr 2021, 12:04 
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Phantom Menace most likely?
I have it on LD, VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, UHD, and Digital.

Twin Peaks isn't a movie, but it's tied with owning the same amount of releases on the same formats listed above.
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PostPosted: 24 Apr 2021, 15:24 
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Star Wars OT for me, too. I have some Fox LDs c. 1989, the 'Faces' edition LDs, the DVD SE box set, the Blu-ray six-pack, and the recent 4k UHDs. I might even have some VHS lying around in the basement! 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.
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PostPosted: 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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PostPosted: 25 Apr 2021, 01:32 
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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 :lol:
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PostPosted: 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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PostPosted: 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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PostPosted: 25 Apr 2021, 20:56 
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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.
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PostPosted: 25 Apr 2021, 21:08 
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Yeah, but nobody buys more redundant stuff than Star Wars fans

Except maybe DBZ fans. :mrgreen:
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PostPosted: 26 Apr 2021, 03:44 
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Yeah, but nobody buys more redundant stuff than Star Wars fans

Except maybe DBZ fans. :mrgreen:


And Looney Tunes...
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PostPosted: 26 Apr 2021, 09:13 
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Probably Back To The Future Trilogy for me. I don't own it on LD but have it on everything else VHS, DVD, BR, UHD etc.

After that it's probably Death Flash (I have 3 copies of the same retail release on VHS) and then probably Speed Driver which I have on French SECAM, Italian and Japanese retail VHS releases.

Probably the Patlabor films 1 and 2 after than and perhaps Wings Of Honneamise.
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PostPosted: 26 Apr 2021, 10:47 
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signofzeta wrote:
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Yeah, but nobody buys more redundant stuff than Star Wars fans

Except maybe DBZ fans. :mrgreen:


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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PostPosted: 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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PostPosted: 27 Apr 2021, 12:18 
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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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PostPosted: 27 Apr 2021, 13:41 
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signofzeta wrote:
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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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