A Few Words About A few words about…™ The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection - in 4k UHD Blu-ray (1 Viewer)

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[Dave MJ]

From The Digital Bits on Twitter:

Great news! Glad they listened and reacted quickly. It's an unfortunate mistake that will cost them to fix. But the end result will be a top notch disc and a great example of how good an older black and white film can be presented in 4k.

 

[graham8z]

Uk version

 

[Johnny Angell]

Haven't we all.

And these issues seems to happen repeatedly, even pre-pandemic, such as the fiasco with the 3D 'Return of the Creature' disc.

I remember there was some issue that kept the 3D from being the best it could be. It’s my recollection no correction was made.

 

[Peter Apruzzese]

I remember there was some issue that kept the 3D from being the best it could be. It’s my recollection no correction was made.

The first release of Revenge of the Creature had the 3-D version authored incorrectly in side-by-side mode instead of the Blu-ray 3D frame-packed standard.

 

[ahollis]

The first release of Revenge of the Creature had the 3-D version authored incorrectly in side-by-side mode instead of the Blu-ray 3D frame-packed standard.

Universal did send a replacement disc. I received one.

 

[haineshisway]

Having just read the "reviews" of this set on the other site, I just have to scratch the old cranium, I really do. For Psycho, no mention of the wrong mono track. For Vertigo, no mention of the mono track at all. For The Birds, he calls out several shots of Ms. Hedren that he deems not of the same sharpness as other shots - I'm pretty sure the two shots he calls out were shot with a diffusion filter - you know, the glamor filter used in hundreds of films. But it's the transfer's fault somehow. AND, twice he feels it necessary to tell everyone that both discs in question exhibited pixelation. Then he explains that after he cleaned off his fingerprints from the disc, they played fine. I should know better.

 

[titch]

Having just read the "reviews" of this set on the other site, I just have to scratch the old cranium, I really do. For Psycho, no mention of the wrong mono track. For Vertigo, no mention of the mono track at all. For The Birds, he calls out several shots of Ms. Hedren that he deems not of the same sharpness as other shots - I'm pretty sure the two shots he calls out were shot with a diffusion filter - you know, the glamor filter used in hundreds of films. But it's the transfer's fault somehow. AND, twice he feels it necessary to tell everyone that both discs in question exhibited pixelation. Then he explains that after he cleaned off his fingerprints from the disc, they played fine. I should know better.

Never mind, you know that a nitwit is trying to be a film critic, when a film that topped the last Sight & Sound poll list for the greatest film of all time, doesn't even rate a five out of five.

Vertigo rises: the greatest film of all time? | Sight & Sound

After half a century of monopolising the top spot, Citizen Kane was beginning to look smugly inviolable. Call it Schadenfreude, but let’s rejoice that this now conventional and ritualised symbol of ‘the greatest’ has finally been taken down a peg.

www2.bfi.org.uk

 

[OliverK]

Having just read the "reviews" of this set on the other site, I just have to scratch the old cranium, I really do. For Psycho, no mention of the wrong mono track. For Vertigo, no mention of the mono track at all. For The Birds, he calls out several shots of Ms. Hedren that he deems not of the same sharpness as other shots - I'm pretty sure the two shots he calls out were shot with a diffusion filter - you know, the glamor filter used in hundreds of films. But it's the transfer's fault somehow. AND, twice he feels it necessary to tell everyone that both discs in question exhibited pixelation. Then he explains that after he cleaned off his fingerprints from the disc, they played fine. I should know better.

I am not surprised as for myself I found his reviews to be the least helpful on that site, hard to forget that glowing review of the first Patton Blu-ray.

 

[willyTass]

Is the DTS -X TRACK on PSYCHO 4k really that inferior to the original mono? I’m still waiting on my set from South Korea and I have never heard the original mono

 

[RickardL]

Swedish/Nordic packaging if anyone is interested. The UK Masterpiece Collection as a size comparison. The physical discs seem identical to the UK ones previously posted.

 

[Worth]

Never mind, you know that a nitwit is trying to be a film critic, when a film that topped the last Sight & Sound poll list for the greatest film of all time, doesn't even rate a five out of five...

To each his own. I think Rear Window and Psycho are better films than Vertigo. Within a span of thirty years, I think Vertigo went from being seriously underrated to seriously overrated.

 

[TravisR]

To each his own. I think Rear Window and Psycho are better films than Vertigo. Within a span of thirty years, I think Vertigo went from being seriously underrated to seriously overrated.

I guess it depends on how liberal your use of the 5 star rating is. I like Rear Window and Psycho more than Vertigo but I'd still say that Vertigo is a 5 star movie.

 

[Bryan Tuck]

Is the DTS -X TRACK on PSYCHO 4k really that inferior to the original mono? I’m still waiting on my set from South Korea and I have never heard the original mono

It's very similar to the 5.1 that was on the previous Blu-ray release. The stereoized music sounds pretty decent, but the added/replaced sound effects just stick out to me: incongruous with the look and tone of the film.

Where have you watched the movie before? The remix didn't exist until 2010.

 

[OliverK]

To each his own. I think Rear Window and Psycho are better films than Vertigo. Within a span of thirty years, I think Vertigo went from being seriously underrated to seriously overrated.

Can't say that I even have the need to rank them in that way but I will say that Vertigo certainly looks better than the other two.

 

[PMF]

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[PMF]

This link should work.

https://www.uphe.com/en/contact-support

Universal is on it.

Do note that an email response from this supplied link may take up to 24 hours; but, yes, I can further attest that this one is, indeed, the bullseye.

My thanks to Robert Harris.

 

[Peter Apruzzese]

Do note that an email response from this supplied link may take up to 24 hours; but, yes, I can further attest that this one is, indeed, the bullseye.

My thanks to Robert Harris.

I used that link this morning and received an automated reply a short while ago. Presumably that puts me on the list for the replacement when they're ready.

 

[dpippel]

I emailed UPHE two days ago via their webform, and today I received this response:

 

[SeanSKA]

I emailed UPHE two days ago via their webform, and today I received this response:

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I got the same response