X Files Complete Collectors Edition 60dvd Box Set Only £49.00 @HMV

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  fanpages7 months, 3 weeks ago #1Show comment toolsReply

  Also see this "in-store" thread:
  
  "The X-Files Complete Collectors Edition series 1-9 and the x-files movie on DVD £49.00 @ HMV instore"
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  bodeiseifer7 months, 3 weeks ago #2Show comment toolsReply

  Tempting but I will wait for the blu ray
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  littletime7 months, 3 weeks ago #3Show comment toolsReply

  bodeiseifer

  Tempting but I will wait for the blu ray

  
  But The X-Files pre-dates HD doesn't it - I think the series will have been filmed in Standard Definition 4:3 aspect ratio. Unless of course you mean SD episodes over fewer discs?
  
  

  
  Edited By: littletime on Sep 24, 2012 15:16
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  littletime7 months, 3 weeks ago #4Show comment toolsReply

  Alternatively you could invest the time in Fringe as it is in a similar vein and doesn't outstay it's welcome
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  Hadouken!7 months, 3 weeks ago #5Show comment toolsReply

  Cheapest it has ever been brand new, from what I recall.
  That's a hefty 148 hours of viewing right there. ie over 6 days of non-stop spookiness!
  
  Great set - why on earth people keep going on about a blu ray set - I don't think it will be released.
  Hi def has only become standard on American TV in the past few years. Hell - even widescreen became standard very late on, as well!
  
  If the 35mm originals are knocking around - you would have to put a lot of work into them to bring them up to standard. I don't think it will happen - considering the wealth of material.
  
  Having said that, hasn't Friends just been released on blu ray? What's the discernible difference in picture? The earlier seasons must look terrible or have been stretched aspect ratio-wise to make the original 4:3 fit a 16:9, defeating the purpose completely.
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  bodeiseifer7 months, 3 weeks ago #6Show comment toolsReply

  Friends like pretty much any mainstream American TV show was shot on 35mm film, and shooting on film isn't like shooting on a digital camera, you always shoot beyond the intended image, this part of the image is usually cropped, in the case of friends it was reinstated, hence why you see parts of the studio and cameras on the 16:9 image, but I don't see why they couldn't just fit the 4:3 with black bars onto a 16:9 image, isn't what they done for star trek
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  ollynorton7 months, 3 weeks ago #7Show comment toolsReply

  I think the problem with the X-Files is that they got rid of all the original film and only kept the tapes. I think this happened a lot in the 80-90s they have done something on TNG to bring them back to life but I think it's some sort of post processing on the tape versions that requires a lot of time and money so will only happen if there is a large enough market there to justify it.
  
  They kept the original film reel so the movie was easy to put on blu ray.
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  junk4[helper]7 months, 3 weeks ago #8Show comment toolsReply

  Hadouken!

  
  Having said that, hasn't Friends just been released on blu ray? What's the discernible difference in picture? The earlier seasons must look terrible or have been stretched aspect ratio-wise to make the original 4:3 fit a 16:9, defeating the purpose completely.

  
  
  As said above, it was all done on film so in HD it looks really, really good. Seeing the first few series in HD is like seeing them for the first time.
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  1duck7 months, 3 weeks ago #9Show comment toolsReply

  littletime

  Alternatively you could invest the time in Fringe as it is in a similar vein and doesn't outstay it's welcome

  
  
  Only problem with that is that fringe is ****. Whilst the x-files was good though.
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  Spies7 months, 3 weeks ago #10Show comment toolsReply

  Adds to basket at £95 :(
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  freakstyler7 months, 3 weeks ago #11Show comment toolsReply

  Tried adding to basket and it came up at £95
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  Hadouken!7 months, 3 weeks ago #12Show comment toolsReply

  junk4

  Hadouken!

  
  Having said that, hasn't Friends just been released on blu ray? What's the discernible difference in picture? The earlier seasons must look terrible or have been stretched aspect ratio-wise to make the original 4:3 fit a 16:9, defeating the purpose completely.

  
  
  As said above, it was all done on film so in HD it looks really, really good. Seeing the first few series in HD is like seeing them for the first time.

  
  
  Thanks for the info everyone!
  I await Fox to stump up the cash - but I can't see this as a blu-ray home release having the same sort of commercial interest Friends - The X Files was very much a commit-to-and-watch-to-the-end series in its latter seasons, whereas Friends will always be a pick-an-episode jobby. (Apologies - it's 3am, I'm lacking the ability to express myself concisely, but you get my gist!)
  

  
  Edited By: Hadouken! on Sep 25, 2012 03:04
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  br20127 months, 2 weeks ago #13Show comment toolsReply

  This is still going in HMV, it was £49 but scanned up for £30! St Albans HMV instore

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