At that price I will save my old DVD's for the trailers and buy the new ones for the improved transfer.

The screen shots are amazing! Can't wait to get mine. I preordered it from DDD a few months ago.

WillyShatsWig, could you tell me what audio and subtitle options are avaliable in both movies?

Thanks!

Ghostbusters:
English DD5.1; French, Spanish Dolby 2.0 Surround.
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai subtitles

Ghostbusters II:
English DD5.1; Spanish, Portugeuse Dolby 2.0 Surround.
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai subtitles

I'm suspicious of the screenshots...how do we know R2 had the same original transfer R1 had?

so it's still worthwhile to hang on to the original Ghostbusters release then?

BIG thanks!

Well, there is an easy answer, find the parts in the movie yourself on your current R1 and either post them on here, or email them to me and I will post them.

Apart from the usual PAL / NTSC differences (NTSC = fewer data lines, PAL = 4% speed up), I'd be very suprised to see that the transfer quality between the two old releases were vastly different. The same cut was used in both the UK and the US, both were released by Tristar (who usually use the same transfer across the board), both had virtually the same extras (even down to the same menu system).

The above screenshots were taken with PowerDVD's screengrab, and were not enhanced in any way. I just cropped the picture to remove the top / bottom black lines put in by PowerDVD.

strange that it still listed a full screen transfer on the dvds though

The transfer in the screen shots looks nice and all. Definitely more natural; too much purple in the previous R2 release. Not sure how the previous R1 compares. But I'm still unconvinced that this is really worth it. Had they really put solid effort into it, gave Ghostbusters II some real attention, then yes. Obviously. (I know, I know--old arguments.) I just don't see that this is really anything special.

--THX

Personally, for the $16.94 (shipped) I'm spending on it, it's worth it to get two of my favorite movies with much-improved transfers.

It's going to be $12.99 at Circuit City next week. You can pick it up in the store or buy something else to get it over $25 and get free shipping.

Man those new screenshots look awesome!

Wow...I may have to do that (although my Circuit City always runs out of the things I want before I get there). Thanks!

DDD.com sells it for $13.91 with free shipping.

...that will take 2-3 weeks.

The transfers, judging by those screenshots look very solid and look better than the now OOP seperate editions. I see this, though, as just an upgrade for fans and the studio over those OOP seperate editions. It's an even better situation for the studio, both Ghostbusters packed together and not everyone has it on dvd. So this will make a dvd collector foam from the wallet, and fans very happy.

Why couldn't they just use the plain, Ghostbusters logo in black on one side of the outer packaging and on the other side the Ghostbusters 2 logo in black. And have what would make for better artwork for a 2-disc set of both movies. The, "he slimed me" design just doesn't work for my tastes. They did that with the Karate Kid, I loved all the original dvd artwork for all three movies, and than they had to make it seem fresh, so they chose flash over substance.

They already sent mine out so I should have it by Tuesday (release day).

Who are you blowing at DDD to get it in 6 days??

That is the way they have been for me for new releases. But I am sure YMMV.

is there an echo in here?

I am amazed at the transfers, looks like I will be selling the originals and pick up the new transfers!

I have updated my comparison post to include shots from the Japanese R2 Superbit release of Ghostbusters.

Damn. Still the best release out there. Great job!

What (if any) online retailers sell the Japanese Superbit version? None of the foreign dvd sites (that I know of) have it even listed (like yesasia/hkflix/etc...).