Gizmo

These are arriving to reviewers today and it looks very, very bad.

The original trilogy are presented on 3 BD50's while the remake is on a BD25. The case itself is a flimsy cardboard with the discs being held in by foam. Mine arrived smashed as its incredibly flimsy and cheap.

A picture I took:

The case is bigger then a normal BD case (I used Indiana for comparison)

Just a word of warning to those that may want to cancel and order the Individual BD release of the first film instead.

Omen II and II only have a Commentary and Trailer.

Drexl

Well, I wasn't getting it anyway because I don't want the remake.

How are the transfers?

Gizmo

Mine have yet to arrive to me (maybe today).

Looks to be two films on each BD50 squished in with DTS MA tracks and some extras (The first Omen is loaded as is the remake).

Brent L

Forget The Omen, tell me about Shawshank and Young Frankenstein.

Gizmo

Ok, got The Omen Collection today.

All 4 movies on 4 separate discs. Phew.

Case still sucks. Mine is all smooshed and the discs are held in my freaking foam. Ugh. What a craptacular set.

DthRdrX

Any reason they didn't include the fourth film, the one with the girl taking Damien's place? It was shitty as hell but they could have thrown it in to complete the collection.

tylergfoster

I'll just buy the first, thanks. But I'm glad Fox, as always, has made wise choices.

bunkaroo

If that's the same Omen 666 disc released separately a year or two ago, wasn't that one a BD-25?

Gizmo

Yep! Just checked, its actually a BD25.

Drexl

Well, I'm glad to hear they're separated, as that would make it much easier and cheaper for Fox to release the sequels separately down the line.

Josh-da-man

It sucks that we're already getting crap packaging.

And what's with releasing all of the Blu-ray sets in DVD-sized packages? I was under the impression that the Blu-ray (and HD-DVD cases) were sized differently from DVD cases in order for them be differentiated. Someone could easily mistake this for a DVD set and either pass it over or pick it up in error.

The taller packages also mean it might not fit on a short shelf with other Blu-ray discs.

Drexl

It could be that they don't yet have the equipment in place to produce BD-sized cases cheaply enough. They can save money by using the existing equipment that is set up for DVDs.

I agree about not liking the taller cases, but I've already had to readjust my storage towers back to DVD height, thanks to the Warner digibooks not quite fitting (I don't want them in a separate section).

The Cow

Thanks for the fair warning so far.

I don't care about the packaging as long as it get's to me intact (sounds like a risk here).

What's the scoop on the actual content?

Eric D.

It sounds like it's close to the same awful packaging that the HD DVD set of Battlestar Galactica: Season One had.

TheMovieman

Thing is, what they're releasing these on is basically one long piece of cardboard with 4 hubs to hold the discs and then fold them up to fit into a slip case. There are multi-disc Blu-ray cases out there (like what Paramount used for The Godfather) and with the amount they're charging for this set ($89.95 on Amazon), there's no excuse not to use them.

jackson walker

Maybe they were going for a "horror-ble" packaging theme since The Omen is a horror film.

Daytripper

I only plan on buying the first, but not until the price comes down. The cheapest I could find it was around $27.99. No way.

Gizmo

Mine came damaged and two discs were loose inside. My shrinkwrap was actually falling off as well (but typical since some PR forms just throw the discs inside of a huge envelope). They all looked MINT though.

But yeah...very similar to Battlestar on HD DVD now that I compare.

DVD Polizei

Fox Studios

Our Packaging Reflects Our Enthusiasm

demonio

We got our review copies of that in today as well... Mine was sorta smashed and one of the discs were loose. Seriously the way the discs are attached the cardboard...the foam rings will break off eventually. Cheap bastards!

Gizmo

Just finished with the original Omen...tons of halo effects and smeared colors. At one point the staircase banister looked like it had ghosted into a duplicate. Bright colors (yellow taxi, white) look really soft. Pretty poor transfer all around. Sadly, my LG 200 can not tell me what encode it is, but I would not be shocked to find out its MPEG2.

DVD Polizei

I think you guys pretty much satisfied my interest in pre-orders.

musick

the beaver seems to be giving it higher marks and lists it as a MPEG4-AVC encode

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDRev...dvd_review.htm

Gizmo

Good to know its a MPEG-4. Still not happy with the transfer. Way too many times I noticed halo effects on anything that was yellow or white. Sadly, I do not have the previous DVD editions anymore to compare.

tylergfoster

The caps on Beaver look good.