Die Another Day Coming on Blu-ray in October

[Kristatos]

You'll not see better outside of the theater until the 4k standard comes to homes in the next 5 years (or less).

The what? Is this something else that's going to make Blu-Ray obsolete so that we all have to upgrade yet again?

[stockslivevan]

You'll not see better outside of the theater until the 4k standard comes to homes in the next 5 years (or less).

The what? Is this something else that's going to make Blu-Ray obsolete so that we all have to upgrade yet again?

I was assuming he meant Blu-Ray becoming a standard in 5 years, since it's not. Or is it not? I remember I didn't think DVD could be surpassed visually until Blu-Ray came along. So WTF is going to surpass Blu-Ray?

Maybe I'll just start collecing film rolls, those are the real deal.

[Mazer Rackham]

You'll not see better outside of the theater until the 4k standard comes to homes in the next 5 years (or less).

The what? Is this something else that's going to make Blu-Ray obsolete so that we all have to upgrade yet again?

I was assuming he meant Blu-Ray becoming a standard in 5 years, since it's not. Or is it not? I remember I didn't think DVD could be surpassed visually until Blu-Ray came along. So WTF is going to surpass Blu-Ray?

Maybe I'll just start collecing film rolls, those are the real deal.

Blu-ray is the HDM standard, well, for a while, sure. But remember, dvd and blu-ray were separated by only 3 or 4 years, so presumably we're due for yet another format 2 or 3 years from now.

The basic parameters are easy to predict. The heir apparent to HDTV is what's called "4K"-- that is, a display resolution with about 4,096 horizontal pixels and 2,160 scan lines. Sony already makes projectors that support this resolution. Red Digital Cinema makes 4K cameras. Studios have been scanning film at 4k for years for preservation, and it is from this resolution that Blu-ray Discs start before they’re compressed and down-scaled to 1080p.
So 4K is coming, and it isn't far away.
Sony will want to lead the transition to 4K and DVD is not finished yet either Super-Resolution and other enchantments are in the works.




Sony is showing off 4k at trade shows and everywhere else they get the chance.

In my estimation Blu-ray has 2 years maybe 3 to catch on with mainstream buyers or it will end up the next laser disc.

Starting today Dish Network is offering 1080p resolution as part of their new TurboHD packages, MPEG-4 HD DVR receivers.
MPEG-4 is one of the latest compression method standardized by MPEG group similar to MPEG-4 AVC used in some Blu-ray movies’

This December new DVD players with super processors from Sharpe & Toshiba will be rolling out. These new DVD players using Super-Resolution, which is rumored to be powered by the same cell processor as found in the PS3, will convert the dvd picture to 960p, just 120 off of the 1080p blu-ray.
Super-Resolution uses 3 to 4 frames of the standard 30fps DVD uses to combine the data to make a 960p picture.


(Most TV's currently out there run at a refresh rate of 60 Hz, most TV transmissions, video tape, and DVD play at 30fps.)
(Most films are 24fps, Most of the new Blu-ray players coming are capable of 24fps playback, if the HDTV is capable of receiving this signal)
(Some of the new HDTVs' from Sharp & Toshiba will feature this Super-Resolution technology as well)

[stockslivevan]

Eh, I'm just gonna settle with 1080p. It already looks crisp enough that way, at least in my eyes. But then again I said that with DVD. There's no limit is there? I'll just settle with what I like now and maybe in twenty years I'll upgrade when it's cheap as a toaster.

[Mazer Rackham]

Now the full specs are in, with each Bond adventure receiving the BD-50 dual-layer treatment, complete with fully-remastered 1080p/AVC MPEG-4 video and audio tracks in DTS-HD Lossless Master Audio 5.1 Surround.

Extras will be comparable to the previously-released two-disc DVD editions of each title

Dr. No:
• "The Complete Special Features Library: Mission Dossier" - Audio commentary featuring director Terence Young and cast & crew
• Featurettes: "Inside Dr. No," "Premiere Bond," "Terence Young: Bond Vivant," "Dr. No 1963 Featurette"
• "Top Level Access 007: License to Restore" - Featurette detailing the Bond Ultimate Edition film restoration process
• "Declassified: M16 Vault" - The Guns of James Bond
• "007 Mission Control" Interactive Guide Into the World of Dr. No
• "Ministry of Propaganda" - Original Trailers, TV Spots, Photo Gallery and Radio Communications

Die Another Day:
• "The Complete Special Features Library: Mission Dossier" - Audio Commentary Featuring Director Lee Tamahori and Producer Michael G. Wilson
• Audio Commentary featuring Pierce Brosnan and Rosamund Pike
• "Declassified: M16 Vault" - From Script to Screen
• Featurettes: "Shaken and Stirred on Ice," "Just Another Day," "The British Touch: Bond Arrives in London," "On Location With Peter Lamont
• "007 Mission Control" Interactive Guide Into the World of Die Another Day
• MI6 DataStream
• Madonna’s "Die Another Day" Music Video
• "Ministry of Propaganda" Photo gallery

Live and Let Die:
• Audio Commentary featuring Sir Roger Moore
• "The Complete Special Features Library: Mission Dossier" - Audio Commentary featuring Guy Hamilton
• Audio Commentary featuring Tom Mankiewicz
• "Declassified: M16 Vault" - Bond 1973: The Lost Documentary
• Featurettes: "Roger Moore as James Bond, Circa 1964," "Inside Live and Let Die," "On Set With Roger Moore"
• Live and Let Die Conceptual Art
• "007 Mission Control" Interactive Guide Into the World of Live and Let Die
• "Ministry of Propaganda" - Original Trailers, TV Spots, Photo Gallery and Radio Communications

For Your Eyes Only:
• Audio Commentary featuring Sir Roger Moore
• Audio Commentary featuring Michael G Wilson and Crew
• "The Complete Special Features Library: Mission Dossier" - Audio Commentary featuring John Glen and Actors
• "Declassified: M16 Vault" Deleted Scenes and Expanded Angles
• Featurettes: "Inside For Your Eyes Only," "Bond in Greece, Bond in Cortina," "Neptune’s Journey
•"007 Mission Control" Interactive Guide Into the World of For Your Eyes Only
• Animated Storyboard Sequences
• Sheena Easton’s "For Your Eyes Only" Music Video
• "Ministry of Propaganda" - Original Trailers, TV Spots, Photo Gallery and Radio Communications

From Russia with Love:
• "The Complete Special Features Library: Mission Dossier" - Audio Commentary featuring director Terence Young and cast & crew
• "Declassified: M16 Vault" - Ian Fleming: The CBC Interview
• Featurettes: "Ian Fleming and Raymond Chandler," "Ian Fleming on Desert Island Discs," "Inside From Russia With Love," "Harry Saltzman: Showman"
• Animated Storyboard Sequence
• "007 Mission Control" - Interactive Guide Into the World of From Russia With Love
• Ministry of Propaganda" - Original Trailers, TV Spots, Photo Gallery and Radio Communications

Thunderball:
• "The Complete Special Features Library: Mission Dossier" - Audio Commentary featuring Terence Young and others
• Audio Commentary featuring Peter Hunt, John Hopkins and Others
• "Declassified: M16 Vault" The Incredible World of James Bond - Original 1965 NBC Television Special
• "A Child’s Guide to Blowing Up a Motor Car" - 1965 Ford Promotional Film On Location With Ken Adam
• Featurettes: "Bill Suitor: The Rocket Man Movies," "The Making of Thunderball," "The Thunderball Phenomenon," "The Secret History of Thunderball"
• Thunderball Boat Show Reel
• Selling Bonds - Original 1965 Television Advertisements
• "007 Mission Control" Interactive Guide Into the World of Thunderball
• "Ministry of Propaganda" - Original Trailers, TV Spots, Photo Gallery and Radio Communications

[Dr. No]

So nothing new and no reason I should buy it again.
I think me and stockslivevan might start our own club adn buy up original 35mm bond movies

[Mazer Rackham]

If some of you are in the market there is a good deal on Amazon.com, both Blu-ray sets for $111.95

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THIS DEAL $55.98 per set
$18.66 per Blu-ray

Amazon retail for one of these movies is $23.95

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Normal Amz price Set 1 $58.95
Set 2 $61.95

. You'll not find a better deal on these outside a BOGO sale(Buy One Get One). Which are few and far between since the Format War ended.

linky

[stockslivevan]

Since I already have the UE box sets, I don't feel the need buy more Bond box sets. I'm gonna buy em separate. Here's a list of Bond flicks I desire for Blu-Ray...

Dr. No
From Russia with Love
Goldfinger
Thunderball
You Only Live Twice
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Diamonds Are Forever
The Living Daylights
Licence to Kill
GoldenEye

I've already got CR collector's edition for Blu-Ray on pre-order, so that's my first Bond flick on BD. I'm not in the hurry to buy all the flicks on my list just yet. I've had the PS3 for months and I've only got L.A. Confidential (which looked great btw!) so far. Plus I wouldn't mind holding out for a later release with better covers! (preferably the original posters, not this photoshop bulls**t).

It's so simple EON!



Oh well, at least they have the teaser poster for CR as the BD cover, still they should do this for all the covers! If I saw them like that at a store, I'd immediately be encouraged to buy all three. With the covers they have now, I'd just irk and wonder whether I should buy it later.

[Mazer Rackham]

Reports have come in that Target has a unadvertised sale on the Classic Bonds.
James Bond blu-ray at Fry's for $16.99. Fry has this price advertised in their sales circular.

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Target
James Bond Blu-ray all 6 classics; 19.98 each

Dr. No
From Russia With Love
Thunderball
Live and Let Die
Die Another Day
For Your Eyes Only

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Fry's
James Bond Blu-ray all 6 classics; 16.99 each

Dr. No
From Russia With Love
Thunderball
Live and Let Die
Die Another Day
For Your Eyes Only

[Dr. No]

The dvds look great I don't see the need for anything else. Besides in a few years they and more goodies to them and hopefully fix the sorry menu screen the dvd went with. I like the SE dvds menus, each was individualized ot the movie and interesting.

[FormerBondFan]

The SE DVDs are very hard to find these days.

[stockslivevan]

The SE DVDs are very hard to find these days.

Last week I got GOLDENEYE SE for five bucks in new factory wrapped condition on Amazon. It's not like these are rare hard to find out of print Criterion DVDs that are sold 40 bucks in used condition.

[Mazer Rackham]

The SE editions were as rare as hen's teeth before the 2006 UE release. (In the US, the UK had several releases)

2003 was the last year the SE were produced and that was right about when DVD really took off. Supplies didn't meet demands and the movies were pulled from stores as they were scheduled to creating a further shortage for Bond fans here.
Most of the dvd were selling around $75-100 for new un-opened DVDs and about the same for used dvds. There was a big bootleg problem from China and Russia bringing in counterfeit DVDs, some looked identical to the official DVDs except to the trained eye.

The price has gone down but the SEs can still be hard to find, depending where you look.

[Mazer Rackham]

You'll not see better outside of the theater until the 4k standard comes to homes in the next 5 years (or less).

The what? Is this something else that's going to make Blu-Ray obsolete so that we all have to upgrade yet again?

A new format is coming 1st Quarter 2009. It remains to be seen if it will receive studio support.

Royal Digital Media Announced a 100GB red laser based Disc, Supports up to 1920p (Red laser tech is important becasue it is cheaper to make and readily available)

Studios may be lured to it because it will have superior encryption keeping content safe from being pirated.

DreamStream has signed on to encrypt Royal Digital Media's new optical media format. The agreement will allow RDM to employ DreamStream's military-strength encryption in the copyright protection of their high-definition discs.

The deal marks the first time a military-grade encryption has been implemented in the copyright protection of commercial motion picture discs.

"DreamStream and RDM's technologies align perfectly, as they both rest exponentially beyond the standards currently being employed," said DreamStream's Chief Development Officer Ulf Diebel, in a statement issued at the signing in Paris.

DreamStream is the first company to implement a 2,048-bit encryption in consumer media. AES encryption, used in Sony's Blu-ray discs, relies on only a 128-bit system.

In 2006, a hacker known as "Muslix64" defeated Blu-ray's encryption. Since that time, Sony's system has been faced with continual security breaches and tremendous losses due to piracy.
RDM has developed a high-definition system that exceeds the capabilities of Blu-ray. RDM's technology offers storage capacity for up to 100 GB on a single disc. Blu-ray discs can only hold 50 GB of data. Due to RDM's increase in storage capacity, their system is able to offer display qualities that greatly exceed conventional, 1080p, high-definition.

"RDM's format will transform perceptions of high-definition," said Diebel. "RDM's system is able to display the next generation of high-definition: 1920p. With this advancement in technology, true digital cinema will soon be a widespread reality."

For consumers, RDM's increase in storage capacity allows for a single disc to hold approximately four hours of video content at 1920p resolution.

Because RDM's system is based on inexpensive red laser technology, their players are expected to sell for much less than Sony's, which routinely sell for hundreds of dollars. The high price of Blu-ray players has been credited for the technology's slow public reception.

The retail prices for RDM's players and discs are expected to "equal those of the traditional DVD format, greatly undercutting Blu-ray," said Diebel.

"The mission of RDM is to replace traditional DVD technologies with a comprehensive, next generation HD system," said Eugene Levich, RDM's chief executive officer. "The industry's problem, which Sony has been unable to solve with Blu-ray, is how to transition into HD without destroying the existing DVD industry or gouging the pocketbooks of consumers. We have the solution and can solve this without having to drastically overhaul the entire infrastructure of DVD production."

RDM's technology can be implemented into existing DVD production processes through the integration of a proprietary software and firmware system. The only potential hardware modification is, "at most, the simple replacement of a single chip," said Levich. As such, existing DVD manufacturers will be able to integrate RDM's technology with only minor modifications to their production processes.

RDM's players are backwards compatible and able to read traditional CDs and DVDs. Moreover, an innovation in data processing enables RDM's players to "drastically enhance the playback quality of regular DVD content," said Diebel.

The incorporation of DreamStream's encryption into RDM's system will thwart the piracy of digital content. The content of RDM's discs will only be able to be read by RDM's players. Thus, ensuring that the content cannot be copied and illegally distributed.

"Because of the extreme marketability of RDM's technology, this deal is very valuable to DreamStream," said Diebel. "The projected value of this contract is more than $200 million over the next five years."

RDM's format is scheduled to become publically available by the beginning of 2009. Two retailers have already placed orders for the first run of RDM's players. RDM is currently in negotiations to release their technology throughout Europe and Asia.

[Mazer Rackham]

James Bond Blu-ray Collection Six-Pack (Dr. No / Die Another Day / Live and Let Die / For Your Eyes Only / From Russia with Love / Thunderball) (Amazon.com Exclusive) [Blu-ray]

$64.95 On Sale today!

[Mazer Rackham]

Next 6
Not officially announced but Australian online stores have them for a in mid-March release

EzyDVD March 18, 2009

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Diamonds Are Forever
GoldenEye
Goldfinger
Licence To Kill
The Spy Who Loved Me
The World is Not Enough

If you or someone you know is getting a Blu-ray player this Christmas you can get a great deal for the first 6 from amazon.com
Amazon.com Sale Link
33 Fox titles are on sale including the first 6 Bond Blu-rays. You can mix and match with other titles on the list to get this this deal.
If you buy 3 of the Blu-rays on the list, get $20 off. Buy 6, get $50 off. Buy 10, get $100 off.
There is an extra promotion discount for buying the Bond Blu-rays. But some get it and others don't, Amazon has a flaw in their check out system for applying the promotion.

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Price before discount;
$17.99 
Dr. No
From Russia With Love
Thunderball
Live and Let Die
Die Another Day

$23.99
For Your Eyes Only 

[Mazer Rackham]

I know nobody beside my Python friend is going to care about this but here it is anyway.

New round of Bond Blu-rays next Tuesday

Goldfinger
Moonraker
The World is Not Enough

As well as the none Eon Never Say Never Again

Details are the same as the previous releases. DTS HD MA sound, 1080p picture, all of the DVD Special features ported over.

Two more blu-ray Bonds will be released on May 12th
License to Kill and The Man With The Golden Gun

Until Monday there is a Bond preorder blu-ray special. The down side is it bundles Quark with the other movies.

Also Amazon has been dropping their prices after the date of release and there probably will be better promotion for these movies later. Is you don't want to risk it go for it now.

Amazon.com promotion

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Pre-order QoS and Save on Select James Bond Blu-ray Titles when you enter promotional code: QUANTUMS. Offer ends March 23, 2009.

Buy Quantum of Solace [Blu-ray] and 1 qualifying item at the regular price and receive $7 off.
Buy Quantum of Solace [Blu-ray] and 2 qualifying items at the regular price and receive $10 off.
Buy Quantum of Solace [Blu-ray] and 3 qualifying items at the regular price and receive $20 off.
Buy Quantum of Solace [Blu-ray] and 4 qualifying items at the regular price and receive $25 off.
Buy Quantum of Solace [Blu-ray] and 5 qualifying items at the regular price and receive $30 off.
Buy Quantum of Solace [Blu-ray] and 6 qualifying items at the regular price and receive $40 off.
Buy Quantum of Solace [Blu-ray] and 7 qualifying items at the regular price and receive $45 off.
Buy Quantum of Solace [Blu-ray] and 8 qualifying items at the regular price and receive $55 off.
Buy Quantum of Solace [Blu-ray] and at least 9 qualifying items at the regular price and receive $60 off.

[Mazer Rackham]

What is the opinion of the new cover art for the NSNA Blu-ray?