T-900

Now like everyone ,Ive done alot of VHS replacing with DVD counterparts over the years, but have you ever upgraded your old DVD version to a more recent released DVD for whatever reason? Ive done it twice. First time being was replacing my single-disc edition of T2 with the ultimate edition DVD, and just today I added to my lists of Defintive Editions by buying Robocop in which case its meant to have a better picture and it includes a extra disc. My old "special edition" of Robocop only had 1 disc and I was having some audio problems. Anyway, this Defintive Edition will go nicely with my collection which only includes The Terminator, and The Abyss.

nemein

To many to really remember any more... Some that come to mind are;

Gladiator
Kingdom of Heaven
T2
Tae Guk Gi
10 Commandments
Hot Fuzz
I own US and HK versions of several Jackie Chan and Chow Yun Fat movies
etc etc etc

TomOpus

Yes, many times.

manicsounds

I'm pretty sure almost everyone on this board has. There are multiple double-dip threads about this.

For me, off the top of my head

Seven Samurai (1 disc to 3 disc)
Brazil (non-anamorphic to anamorphic)
Lifeboat (1 disc to 2 disc)
Psycho (non-anamorphic to anamorphic)
Vertigo (non-anamorphic to anamorphic)
Napoleon Dynamite (1 disc to 2 disc)
Panic Room (1 disc to 3 disc)
Spaceballs (1 disc to 2 disc)

But I guarantee I have not double dipped as much as others out there. I usually tend to wait for many titles that are bare initially.

JohnnyDaBull

I brought Menace to Society deluxe edition to replace my regular version, and then won the blu ray and sold them both.

KaBluie

The Howling
The Craft
Empire Records
Amazon Women On The Moon

riotinmyskull

THE ABYSS is non-anamorphic. that sure as hell isn't "defintive" in my book.

wd40cloud

24 S1
Back to the Future
Batman
Batman Returns
Batman Begins
Beetlejuice
Big Lebowski
Big Trouble in Little China
Blade Runner
The Blues Brothers
The Boondock Saints
The Breakfast Club
Clerks
Dances with Wolves
Dawn of the Dead
Dazed and Confused
Die Hard 1, 2 & 3
Do the Right Thing
Dogma
Evil Dead 1 & 2
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Fight Club
A Fistful of Dollars
Fletch
For a Few Dollars More
Ghostbusters 1 & 2
The Girl Next Door
The Godfather 1, 2 & 3
Goldeneye
Goldfinger
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
The Great Outdoors
Halloween 1 & 2
Heat
Home Alone
Hot Fuzz
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Jaws
Licence to Kill
Mallrats
The Mist
Mrs. Doubtfire
National Lampoon's Vacation & Christmas Vacation
Nightmare on Elm St.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Psycho
Reservoir Dogs
Road House
Robocop
Rocky
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Shawshank Redemption
The Silence of the Lambs
Sin City
Sixteen Candles
Smokey and the Bandit
Star Wars Trilogy
Taxi Driver
Terminator 2
Tombstone
Uncle Buck
Walk the Line
Weird Science
X-Men 1 & 2
Young Frankenstein
Zodiac

GenPion

Agreed.

As for this thread, I will say I've upgraded one or two films to better DVD versions. Only one or two.

However, I've upgraded MANY movies from DVD to Blu-ray.

RobCA

I don't think I can top that list ^ but here goes:

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Amazon Women on the Moon
Angel Heart
Apartment Zero
Batman
Batman Returns
Batman Forever
The Breakfast Club
Brokeback Mountain
Chicago
The Color Purple
The Crying Game
Dark City
Footloose
The Frighteners
Groundhog Day
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Jim Carrey version)
L.A. Story
A League of Their Own
The Living End
The Manhattan Project
The Mask
Memento
Mission: Impossible
Mommie Dearest
Moonstruck
My Best Friend's Wedding
The Net
The Nightmare Before Christmas
9 to 5
Not Another Teen Movie
The Omen Collection
Pretty in Pink
Psycho
Sea of Love
Serial Mom
Some Kind of Wonderful
Speed
Sports Night: The Complete Series
Strangers on a Train
Sunset Boulevard
Superman I-IV
Tootsie
The Usual Suspects
Wall Street
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The Wizard of Oz

FWIW, I find I'm much less inclined to double-dip now than I used to be.

Mr.Briggs

I've got close to 800 dvds and I bet 100 of them were double dipped for an SE.

dkedvd

Mehh only kinda. There are been a few times I've stumbled across a 2-disc special edition of a title that I already own the single disc release of for $3.00 (or less) that I have picked up due to the price alone. But it has to have some worthwhile features for me to do that. And sometimes when my local pawn shop is having a buy two get one free sale I'll only be able to find two titles I want so for the third I'll just pick up a better version of something I already own since it is free. So 95% of the time, no. But if it is super cheep ($3.00 or less) and its a really good title and has really good features then I might.
However do I replace my Full Screen DVDs with Widescreen? All the time. But even then only if the DVD is no more than $5.00.

yoshimi

I end up buying every version of the Evil Dead films and Army of Darkness if they are an upgrade or a down grade. It is a sickness.

Juicy.Fruit84

I'm victim to this also, now that i have gone blu-ray there goes more money on this franchise. Terminator 2,superman,alien are also some iv upgraded over time.

gdstudent

I’ve never upgraded but I have downgraded. lol

I have the Titanic 2005 Three-Disc Special Collector's Edition but I wanted the entire film on 1 disc. I’ve hated changing out from part 1 to part 2 since the VHS so I bought the 1999 Single Disc Edition.

SteveA

Singing in the Rain
Royal Wedding (when the official non-PD version came out)

Ash Ketchum

I don't upgrade DVDs very often, usually only when a better-grade version of a Hong Kong film comes out. Lots of HK DVDs were inferior quality back when I started buying, so I've upgraded some of those, e.g. DRAGON INN, SWORDSMAN III: THE EAST IS RED, KUNG FU CULT MASTER, and a few others.

Also, I've bought U.S. editions of films I already owned on HK imports, e.g. Dragon Dynasty's SHANGHAI EXPRESS (aka MILLIONAIRES' EXPRESS) and HARD-BOILED and Image's WATER MARGIN, and a few others, because of improved extras or the hope for more complete versions or because the original was only on R3 and I wanted to lend them to people who didn't have multi-region players. The SHANGHAI EXPRESS disc was a huge improvement over the HK import I'd bought six years earlier.

Sometimes the new DVDs weren't an improvement. In 2007, I bought ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA I-III in a new 3-disc set from Columbia/Tristar at a very good price (under $20) and the image looked pretty bad on all 3 discs. I have 3 editions of ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA 2: the first was in Mandarin only (and I wanted a Cantonese track), the second was from Deltamac (HK) and the third is in the aforementioned 3-disc set. The Deltamac remains the best.

Also, when Celestial started releasing Shaw Bros. classics on R3, I bought every kung fu film they put out. A few of them were upgrades of titles I'd already bought on bootleg English-dubbed editions from distribs like Ground Zero, Xenon, Arena, Crash Cinema. E.g. 8-DIAGRAM POLE FIGHTER was a major improvement over the Crash Cinema disc put out under the title INVINCIBLE POLE FIGHTER.

Also, Media Blasters/Tokyo Shock's release of 7 GRANDMASTERS was a legit copy and a great improvement over the previous bootleg release.

snoopygirl

More than I can remember, but a few are:

Romancing the Stone
Jewel of the Nile
Dazed and Confused
Miami Vice (got the box set for the better S1 & S2 discs, plus the cool box even though I'd bought all 5 seasons when they came out like a good little fan)
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Amadeus

Getting stung by the double/triple dip habits by studios I don't buy as much as I used to. I wait and see if I still really, really want something if it keeps nagging at me for a long period of time. And I'm waiting for the complete series for any future TV shows instead of buying a season at a time.

I think the ones that irk me most are the Peanuts specials. I love them. I had all the VHS, then there were a few on DVD from Paramount but that stopped when they didn't have the license any more, and now the DVDs coming out have so many different editions that it's confusing. My new attitude is "*yawn*... call me when you do the definitive box set... I'm burned out on chasing individual titles".

Thumbs up to the folks who did The Man From U.N.C.L.E set - they did it right the first time.

WMAangel

I'm guessing you don't have a widescreen TV yet....
Once you do get one, I am sure you will find the letterboxed non-anamorphic disc to be much more of a nuisance then having to do a disc swap one time in the middle of a 3+ hour film....

asianxcore

Yes, as others have mentioned, more than I can count

brayzie

T2:Ultimate Edition from the double sided disc to the later 2-Disc edition.

Scarface Anniversary Edition to the original Collector's Edition. I didn't want the hip-hop featurette.

Bladerunner but I got rid of the original way before the Final Cut came out. Being the DVD nerd that I am, I hated the fact that such a futuristic movie was only available in a snapper case, with a double sided disc and a crappy menu screen w/no special features.

Enter The Dragon. The 2-Disc edition was a huge improvement. Package design, 2 movies in one with great added featurettes.

Ghost In The Shell is next on my list, but not 2.0. The digipak version.

Trevor

A couple hundred times.

gdstudent

That’s why I call it a downgrade.

visitor Q

Which release are you referring to if you don't mind the question. The R1 SE?

I own six different releases of this film and the R1 SE and the R2 LE are the best transfers that I own of the film. Just curious if I need something new to the list ....


OT - I've tried to avoid double and triple dipping unless absolutely necessary. Thankfully my patience is under control for catalog title releases (so I don't get caught buying the first piece of meat the studios throw out). Importing (which I don't do as much of any more) also saved me the hassle of re-buys. For instance buying the Japanese Grindhouse release has saved me from having to buy Planet Terror and Death Proof ever again, unless I ever jump into high def.

Another example would be the Danish release of Boondock Saints. It was released fully uncut with a full-bit DTS soundtrack. So I had no reason to fall into Fox's trap by buying the shitty edited version years before they finally got around to re-releasing the uncut version of the film (with no DTS track). Fuck the steelbook packaging on that release - I'd prefer the DTS soundtrack any day of the week over packaging.

It's actually strange how often initial releases overseas are the best versions of the film on the medium. There is never a need in a lot of cases to ever buy the film again. Not state side however.

Kevin Phillips

I have double-dipped on some movies, but almost always I'll only do it for one of two reasons
- There is an extended edition and I have the regular version. For example, Lord of the Rings.
- My version is non-anamorphic and a new anamorphic version is available. I think I double dipped on a couple of the Star Trek movies, Spaceballs(?) and a few others.

I won't double-dip just for special features or a new transfer.