Darby67
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Both individually and in boxsets on DVD and Blu-ray: https://www.pottermore.com/news/new-harry-potter-dvd-and-blu-ray-covers-revealed
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After doing more reading about the individual releases it seems that the second disc of each film has *one* part of the documentary (8 movies, 8 discs) and the other bonus features for that particular film.
I did a spot check of my "Socerer's Stone" DVD a couple of days ago to see how it looks on my new set. Pretty good but there *is* a bit of noise and possible softness to the image. My UK BR set has shipped so I'll know in a week or so if the BR is a good upgrade or not. Either way I'm happy as the total cost - set + shipping + ForEx fee (1%) will work out to ~$5.50 per film (~$44 for the set, shipped to the US). That's what I paid for a new bare-bones DVD set of the films for my daughter a couple of years ago.
Don't feel bad. I was gifted a Blu-ray player (so old it has component/composite outputs *and* HDMI) about 9 months ago and my daughter gave me a HDTV for Christmas last year. If not for those I'd still be watching with my standard DVD player on my 32" CRT (both work so why replace them?). I've not gone "region free" as I know as soon as I do the DVD player will break and it'll be too expensive to replace leaving me "stuck" with a bunch of discs I can no longer view. I'd love to get something like the OPPO everyone talks about but I just can't justify that much for a disc player when my "el-cheapo" plays discs just fine.Since I have neither a Blu-ray player nor a region-free DVD player (which I know is sacrilegious to many home video enthusiasts ), I really hope Warner Brothers puts out the same set of UK individual and box set releases here in Region 1.
I wish they'd have included the "extended" versions of the movies which have had such a release but they did not. This could have been done via seamless branching so both versions could have existed on one disc.
That's interesting. I wonder why they left them off the UK releases?The theat and extended editions of HP 1 and 2 (seamless branching) are on the new current Target Exclusive Bluray (I assume DVD too) releases as well, just not on the UK versions.
The current 8 new releases contain 2 BD ea and are the same discs that came with the Ult Editions and the Hogwarts/Wizards big-box sets
The theat and extended editions of HP 1 and 2 (seamless branching) are on the new current Target Exclusive Bluray (I assume DVD too) releases as well, just not on the UK versions.
The current 8 new releases contain 2 BD ea and are the same discs that came with the Ult Editions and the Hogwarts/Wizards big-box sets
That's interesting. I wonder why they left them off the UK releases?
They were wondering the same thing -- and not happy about it either. It's interesting the DVD do not include both cuts at least of HP1.
I looked at my Bluray UE of HP 1 and 2 and and interesting thing is that the DVD contained only has the Theatrical cut. The DVD Ultimate had 4 DVD with a separate disc for the theatrical and extended editions, plus 2 discs of bonus material. The BD Ultimate had 2 BD (2 movies on D1 and Bonus on D2 plus the single DVD)
Does the new DVD release have only one of the Bonus discs as well or does it have 2 Bonus discs?
That begs the question: "Will they offer a replacement program for corrected discs?"They were wondering the same thing -- and not happy about it either. It's interesting the DVD do not include both cuts at least of HP1.
I looked at my Bluray UE of HP 1 and 2 and and interesting thing is that the DVD contained only has the Theatrical cut. The DVD Ultimate had 4 DVD with a separate disc for the theatrical and extended editions, plus 2 discs of bonus material. The BD Ultimate had 2 BD (2 movies on D1 and Bonus on D2 plus the single DVD)
Does the new DVD release have only one of the Bonus discs as well or does it have 2 Bonus discs?