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Hi, y'all.
I'm thinking to buy the M:I box set, but have a couple questions to consider before going for it.
1. Anyone know how likely Paramount will revisit this set in the next couple years to provide lossless audio and maybe better PQ (and whatever other extras)?
2. Are there any actual diff at all, especially in terms of PQ/AQ, between the box set and the separate titles that were released later? I just noticed that the box set version seems to use BD25 discs while the later separates use BD50, and that makes me wonder. The few reviews I've seen do not suggest there's any actual diff, but then again, it does not seem like that was looked into much.
I tried doing a search for these questions, but didn't find the answers I needed.
Thanks for any help w/ this.
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Re: Q's about Mission Impossible BD Box Set
Paul is probably correct. Perhaps the box set will be re-released with new extras and lossless audio, but then again, who knows.
HD DVD-release of "Mission: Impossible III" has exclusive "In-Movie Experience" video commentary, but that´s missing from the Blu-ray. Not sure if the HD DVD-release has all the "Easter eggs" from the Blu-ray-release, though.. So at least it would make sense to release "M:I 3" Blu-ray WITH that IME..
Current box set just has the individual releases in the cardboard case.
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Re: Q's about Mission Impossible BD Box Set
Paramount seems to have gotten over their spat with Cruise and are at this point in informal talks with him about a 4th Mission Impossible movie again with J.J. Abrams directing. Apparently Paramount is very happy with Star Trek so far and Abrams is their new goto guy.
Anyway there MAY be a new MI moving sooner than you might think.
Cruises career is hardly flagging. He has been hired along with Paula Wagner to be the new heads of United Artists.
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Re: Q's about Mission Impossible BD Box Set
The first two are in MPG2 rather than VC1, so I'd say that yeah, chances are high they'll redo them. But when? Months or years?
Personally I am holding off on all the early BluRay titles that were released in MPG2 -- so no Mission Impossible 2 for me, no Lara Croft Tomb Raider, no xXx (the Vin Diesel film), and no Enemy of the State either (both because it is MPG2 and because it is not the director's cut). All of those titles are MPG2 rather than VC1.
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Re: Q's about Mission Impossible BD Box Set
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..and the negative buzz surrounding Valkyrie is well known.
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..that´s mostly created by the press. It´s not that only "Valkyrie" had a few problems during the shooting.. This is one of my anticipated movies for this year and Cruise is a great actor.
I agree with Gary with MPEG-2. Enough space and they look fine (at least you can´t blame the codec for every problem). Sure, it´s time to "move on" to AVC MPEG-4 and VC-1 (which has happened more-or-less), but I don´t skip any releases because of MPEG-2..
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...and no Enemy of the State either (both because it is MPG2 and because it is not the director's cut).
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Just to clarify, it's an extended cut, not necessarily a director's cut. Having said that, I'm not buying it for the same reason...
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Re: Q's about Mission Impossible BD Box Set
Ooooh. Thanks for the follow-up, Paul. And thanks to everyone else too for their earlier replies (back in June). Had totally forgotten about this thread.
I actually picked up the set as individual BDs (for less) back in mid-June, IIRC.
And yeah, it does seem like Par is very slow w/ double-dips in general for better and/or worse. Fortunately, we at least don't need to worry about dealing w/ non-16x9 vs 16x9 transfers for Blu-ray plus Par seems to have adopted an all lossless audio policy going forward (though I'm not sure if that was ever announced in any official way). Too bad all this means those MI titles will likely not see lossless audio releases for a very long time to come (but I guess I can at least not bother thinking about it anymore
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In other words, I don't forsee it unless they have a new film to promote along with them.
