WTF to the Anchor Bay Releases
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WTF to the Anchor Bay Releases
Spiral
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
The Girl Next Door
The Lost
The Alphabet Killer
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
And im sure there are others that Im forgetting
All three of these I have rented/borrowed and none of them have their specials features, and TGNT doesnt even have a damn menu screen! The movie just loops when its over. I dont understand why this company puts out these beyond bare bones blurays and expects ppl to buy them! A bluray disc can hold more than a dvd, so how hard is it to port everything over?? I know I cant be the only one that is bothered by this.
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
The Girl Next Door
The Lost
The Alphabet Killer
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
And im sure there are others that Im forgetting
All three of these I have rented/borrowed and none of them have their specials features, and TGNT doesnt even have a damn menu screen! The movie just loops when its over. I dont understand why this company puts out these beyond bare bones blurays and expects ppl to buy them! A bluray disc can hold more than a dvd, so how hard is it to port everything over?? I know I cant be the only one that is bothered by this.
Last edited by Drav3n; 02-13-10 at 07:57 PM.
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Yeah the lack of a menu on Blu-rays really annoys me. The first time I realized that some lacked menu screens I had gone to the kitchen for a drink, came back to my room, and the movie was already a few minutes in.
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The Lost and The Alphabet Killer are the same way; no special features even though they were on the DVD.
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I'll add my same sentiments here. I haven't bought any of those releases, but I worry that forthcoming, bigger titles will suffer similar problems. No menu and complete lack of extras is absolutely unacceptable at this point in BD's life.
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i forgot about the alphabet killer and jack brooks. and what makes it worse, if u look up the bluray on amazon, it says it has special features too... very misleading on their part!
thank god i read reviews and rent/borrow blurays before i buy them.
thank god i read reviews and rent/borrow blurays before i buy them.
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I've bought a handful of the early releases because they have been cheap.
I haven't bought any of the recent ones because of stuff I've been hearing around these boards about them.
I haven't bought any of the recent ones because of stuff I've been hearing around these boards about them.
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This is incredibly sad. Ten years into the DVD revolution and the next step doesn't even bother with menus? It's 1999 all over again!
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Yeah, Anchor Bay has gone down the crapper big time over the past few years. I picked up The Man From Earth last week, great movie but pathetic Blu-Ray. As Eric said, Blue Underground is where it's at now.
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I would have bought all these movies if they had contained lossless audio. Now I will not be buying one of them. Anchor Bay is losing out on many potential sales with these problems. Dropping extras that were on the dvds and not upgrading the audio is just plain short-sighted. Why should we buy them when all these can be found on dvd for practically nothing?
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This is particularly lazy, since I own some Anchor Bay Blu-Rays that were okay, which were released closer to the birth of the format. Who starts releasing feature-free, menu-free discs with shitty specs as the format becomes more popular?
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When the releases stop getting subsidized by money from the major Blu-ray backers during the height of a format war, that is who. Those initial titles from Starz / Anchor Bay were basically bought and paid for by Blu-ray marketing money from bigger studios.
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Re: WTF to the Anchor Bay Releases
I don't buy that, though. No other studio -- even the tiniest of the tiny -- is doing this. They don't even need to re-encode any of the extras off their DVDs...they can recycle the same MPEG-2/Dolby Digital stuff as before. Plenty of other studios have done the same.
Anchor Bay's day-and-dates aren't like this, and even catalog titles like Children of the Corn as recently as last summer still had all of their extras...well after the format war had come and gone.
Anchor Bay's day-and-dates aren't like this, and even catalog titles like Children of the Corn as recently as last summer still had all of their extras...well after the format war had come and gone.
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Now we have Blue Underground, Dark Sky Films, Unearthed Films, and countless other Exploitation/Horror labels. Hell, even the majors are starting to get their act together!! (See: Night Of The Creeps)
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Lionsgate is my new favorite for catalog releases of "cult" favorites. While some (The Phantom) are bare bones, others are DVD ports (The Running Man) and others have a selection of new and old extras (but missing some, ahem, Cabin Fever); the best part is Wal-Mart has been selling them for $8 - $10; yet all of them contain either 5.1 or 7.1 DTS-HD MA tracks (alongside some rock solid transfers).
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Anchor Bay used to put out some nice editions of horror BDs but now they just flat out suck ass at doing their job. 10 dollars or not most of these releases are not even worth that.
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