Press Release BVHE Press Release: Alien: Romulus (4k UHD) (Blu-ray) (1 Viewer)

[Jeff Cooper]

So, this drops at midnight on a Saturday and it's a real head-scratcher...

Dec 3rd is a Tuesday as normal. Were you thinking of Nov 3rd?

 

[Ronald Epstein]

Dec 3rd is a Tuesday as normal. Were you thinking of Nov 3rd?

The press release itself. Not the product.

 

[JoshZ]

Why not a collectors edition THX certified Laserdisc?

There are no facilities left in the world capable of pressing a Laserdisc. LD requires clean room conditions to manufacture, and all the equipment to do so was scrapped long ago.

 

[Jonathan Perregaux]

How about releasing the original motion picture soundtrack as an 8-track tape so I can finally switch out my Conway Twitty and Foghat cassettes?

I did actually have "Star Wars" and "Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk" by MECO on 8-track! Gotta love the weird edits (to make the songs fit properly), the eerie cross-talk, and not-at-all-startling program changes on those things... KA-CHUNK!

 

[Douglas R]

So, this drops at midnight on a Saturday and it's a real head-scratcher...

It might suit a friend of mine who rubbished DVD when it first came out, saying VHS was good enough.

 

[SD_Brian]

You kids today. Growing up nobody called them that. They were VCRs!

There were plenty of people who referred to their VCRs as "The VHS." I encountered them frequently when I worked at Blockbuster Video, and it used to drive me a little nuts.

Edit: At the risk of dating myself, I should clarify this was in the olden days, when Blockbuster only stocked VHS tapes.

 

[TravisR]

There were plenty of people who referred to their VCRs as "The VHS." I encountered them frequently when I worked at Blockbuster Video, and it used to drive me a little nuts.

Once Beta was dead, there was no need to differentiate so I only heard VCR.

Similarly, I hear people today call them "VHSes" and I only heard people call them "tapes" when they were in regular use.

 

[Brian Husar]

How about releasing the original motion picture soundtrack as an 8-track tape so I can finally switch out my Conway Twitty and Foghat cassettes?

I did actually have "Star Wars" and "Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk" by MECO on 8-track! Gotta love the weird edits (to make the songs fit properly), the eerie cross-talk, and not-at-all-startling program changes on those things... KA-CHUNK!

Don’t you miss when a part of a song was on track one and it would quickly fade out, and you would hear KACHUNK and it would quickly fade in on track 2. Especially if it was the hit song.

 

[SD_Brian]

Don’t you miss when a part of a song was on track one and it would quickly fade out, and you would hear KACHUNK and it would quickly fade in on track 2. Especially if it was the hit song.

Almost as much as I miss when a movie would stop, and I'd have to stand up and walk across the room to flip the LaserDisc once or twice an hour.

 

[Ronald Epstein]

Don’t you miss when a part of a song was on track one and it would quickly fade out, and you would hear KACHUNK and it would quickly fade in on track 2. Especially if it was the hit song.

I remember the crosstalk where you would hear a song on the other track bleed through.

 

[Jonathan Perregaux]

Cross-talk that was backwards! Pretty creepy. I wonder... was it due to crap 8-tracks that someone noticed that Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" run backward murmurs "my sweet Satan" when there's a bustle in the hedgerow?

I hope the ALIEN marketing folks are reading this thread, shaking their heads slowly. This is what you get when you inexplicably offer a VHS tape of a new movie.

 

[Alex...]

 

[Ronald Epstein]

Wow! People are buying this!

 

[Todd Erwin]

Alien: Romulus UHD Review

"Alien: Romulus" resurrects the popular Alien franchise after laying dormant for seven years.

www.hometheaterforum.com

 

[Alex...]

Fede Alvarez says they improved the CGI Ian Holm for the home release.

“We just ran out of time in post-production to get it right. I wasn’t 100% happy with some of the shots [in the theatrical release]”

Alien: Romulus ‘Fixed’ The Controversial Ian Holm CGI For Home Release: ‘It’s So Much Better’

Director Fede Alvarez confirms his Alien film got a visual upgrade following its cinema release. Read more at Empire.

www.empireonline.com

 

[Malcolm R]

Uh oh. Cue all those who always want the home video to be "exactly" like what was in theaters.

 

[Jesse Skeen]

Yeah, I won't be buying this for that reason. Revisionism is revisionism. (Was the VHS tape "fixed" too?)

 

[Jeff Cooper]

Yeah, I won't be buying this for that reason. Revisionism is revisionism. (Was the VHS tape "fixed" too?)

Yeah, I'm guessing you weren't ever going to be buying this in the first place, if that's the reason that is keeping you from getting it.

 

[Dick]

dupe post.

 

[Dick]

Why not a collectors edition THX certified Laserdisc?

Yes, in a limited edition of 25 units, so act today!