The Eagle Has Landed Collector's Edition (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder (1 Viewer)

[Robert Crawford]

Eye of the beholder, my good man.

Disagree with me all you want, but I'm not your good man.

 

[John Hermes]

Whatever, Robert, I was trying to show you some courtesy despite disagreeing with you.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Whatever, Robert, I was trying to show you some courtesy despite disagreeing with you.

Sorry, but I didn't take it that way.

 

[Stephen_J_H]

THE EAGLE HAS LANDED is an MGM title, correct? I don't suppose they sprung for a new master and that's what Shout is releasing so I'm guessing this won't be demo material.

Oh, that it were that simple. It's an ITC/AFD property and was previously distributed in North America by Lionsgate. MGM holds theatrical rights (by virtue of its acquisition of pre-1998 Polygram Films output), but nothing else, with the exception of certain titles. Shout! now has the licence for North America, which could potentially migrate to another label at some point. My guess is that they will port the UK harvest. Whether or not they can improve on it in the authoring and compression process remains to be seen.

 

[FoxyMulder]

Some screencaps of the UK edition here, it appears to be the original 135 minute UK cinema edition.

http://caps-a-holic.com/hd_vergleiche/index.php?art=full&image=1&vergleich=the_eagle_has_landed&lossless=0#auswahl

An improvement in detail over the DVD but not a huge improvement when compared to what you would get from a 4K scan of the negatives.

 

[Stephen_J_H]

A 4K scan is unlikely, given Shout! Factory's business model. Sent from my iPad using Home Theater Forum mobile app