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Many thanks, and thanks for the great work you've put in for us film buffs!

Can anyone remember if earlier home video releases of Creature had stereo audio? I gave my earlier copies away, but still have a copy of "It Came From Outer Space" with stereo audio

Great article, thanks. Am I remembering this wrong, but did previous home video releases have stereo audio?

Yeah, we know that, it says so in the article...... The actual question was raised pages ago by someone who remembered a 35mm print of TB with mag stripe for sale. It made me recall the special Laser disc release of the 90's and hence why I did a search and found that article I linked...

Thanks, interesting reading

I'm just going to have to be big enough to cop that then. The thing is I recall us later showing that on a double bill with Moonraker, and was certain they were both Dolby stereo because at the time the cinema I was at didn't use the Dolby stereo decoder but rather a generic (cheaper) matrix...

That's a shame. You'd have thought a cinema of that calibre.....Seriously though, don't confuse mag stripe with mag stereo. As I said above, I'm not sure whether it was originally discrete or not, although I thought it may have been.. Here's an article that discussing how the mag stripe of...

Good grief. Google it then.....Like I said, it's not only me under the impression. Again, the stereo surround is included on the Blu ray. As for Thunderball....I give up. Is it me?

Close. Moonraker was the first "bad" Bond in Dolby Stereo ;-)

I was a projectionist, I only showed it. I clearly remember the pyramid chase sequence at night being particularly impressive. Having said that, it was a long time ago, so I did a bit of a google to see if my memory cheated. It's confirmed time and time again, even here, Spy was the first...

Spy was the first Bond film in Dolby Stereo, the backward compatible stereo/surrond format that effectively killed mag stripe. The format was really made famous by some space opera released that same year. Whilst there were many mag stripe prints struck of certain films over the years...

I like the Glass score too, and glad it was included as an extra, but yes the cleaned original audio is a revelation

I'm not sure. As Thunderball was a scope film, I don't reckon there would've been a 70mm version. I can't recall any Bond in 70mm, actually. As to the original mag stripe, sorry I can't recall if it was originally directional surround or not either, but I suspect it may have been. Mag stereo...

Lol, me too. Although I never noticed Lou's cold sore on my 8mm "A&C Meet Frankenstein" , and that was in Super 8!

And then I think he nearly ended up in LALD before they came to their senses and kept Bond British! Wasn't James Brolin also considered at some stage as an American Bond?

Yeah, back in the Laser Disc days it was re-released in 5.1 when the mag stereo print came to light. A big deal at the time in the dying days of Laser Disc. IIRC, a certain Goldfinger Laser Disc release was recalled just because the theme song was remixed into stereo!

Watch your books! Mine was assembled incorrectly, the pages are out of order. It makes no sense!

I still can't believe they toyed with making Bond an American! In fact, their pursuit of the US market led to some odd decisions over the years. If the success of the recent Casino Royale proved anything, make a cracking Bond film and it'll work around the world! Easier said than done though...

Just got my copy. Haven't watched anything yet....waiting till dark, but would you believe the book is put together all out of order! The pages are jumbled, it makes no bloody sense!

We had to wait a while for the marriage to be referred to again. During the intro to "For Your Eyes Only" Bond is seen at Tracey Bond's grave and his marriage is mentioned as a "touchy subject" in "LTK" Funnily enough IIRC, Blofield changing his appearance is in the books

In fact EON made things even more confusing in OHMSS by including sequences of Bond remembering his earlier (film) adventures, and the famous line about "the other fellow" It's a very "flexible" continuity!

There's also some annoying scratches that seem to start at about the halfway mark.

Yeah, it's a real shame. The boxset in question seems to have been handled by the same sort of people found in that audience! Being new here, would I be out of line by asking that going on my experience, Universal's 100th celebration releases have been a bit "hit & miss"? Although, as in...

I joined up here just to say reading that on a site like this breaks my heart. You gotta get a smarter audience. You're clearly too easily distracted by the ignorant