Recent content by Craig Beam

My good friend Bill Huelbig has already preordered this for me as an early birthday present. I first saw it on VHS thanks to him... gosh, I guess it's been 30 years ago now. A wonderful film. And that cover is breathtaking!

The back of the Mill Creek set boasts "select audio commentaries with film historians" but doesn't give any names. Anybody know who they are?

You're under no obligation to "get" my opinions about anything. This has nothing to do with the fact that I already own the existing Blu-rays of both titles. I have no issue with Paramount releasing WAR OF THE WORLDS on UHD, nor do I have an issue with them releasing WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE...

Dumb. Just... dumb. I've got both the Criterion *and* the Imprint editions of WAR OF THE WORLDS, and the Imprint WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (which was sourced from a 4K scan, so a UHD was totally doable). I've gotta draw the line someplace. No sale.

Just to clarify---- my plastic sleeves are just resting between the cardboard book pages, not in the disc slots. If it weren't for the outer box, they'd fall right out. I *really* wish I'd just started buying the individual releases when volume 1 came out. Sure, they take up more room, but...

My TROUBLE WITH HARRY UHD disc arrived with a couple of ugly scratches, but it seems to play without issue. SABOTEUR was stuck inside the cardboard sleeve thanks to some overzealous gluing (but the disc ultimately cleaned up just fine after being liberated). The first thing I did (which is the...

Hey, just a heads up---- Amazon has this set for $99.98 right now:

In terms of image quality, the Blu-ray represents a significant improvement over the DVD. For fans of the show, that alone should merit an upgrade. The supplements are just icing on the cake.

Having seen the masters for season 1, I can tell you that the Blu-rays essentially mirror the DVDs in terms of format (meaning no bumpers or Four-in-One intros... I mean, unless something dramatically changed in the last few months, but I'd be surprised as hell). In terms of image quality, they...

My replacement discs arrived a few days ago. Yesterday I checked both the Blu-ray and the UHD for the original mono track.... and I can confirm that both discs do in fact contain the original mono.

You may be right. However, Eureka has done some stellar work (their recent MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE/THE BLACK CAT/THE RAVEN set is wonderful), and before Indicator came along they were the closest thing to Criterion-level excellence in the UK. I trust them WAY more than I'd ever trust Mill...

I'd be surprised if Mill Creek does anything about this (their new Hammer mega-set repurposes the same outdated transfers from their previous releases, after all). I'm cautiously optimistic that Eureka's effort will be superior.

I'll be really interested to see how PILLOW OF DEATH looks on the Eureka release....

Definitely a step up from the DVDs, based on a quick A/B comparison. I honestly can't tell if these are new scans or simply upconverts, but the Blu-ray definitely looks (and sounds) better.