Sony/Columbia 100 for $100 sale -- how many do already own?
01-17-24, 02:33 AM
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Sony/Columbia 100 for $100 sale -- how many do already own?
Splitting off from the streaming deals thread: Sony is offering a digital bundle of 100 movies for $100 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Columbia Pictures. They also have physical-media sales, but I figured for this forum it might be fun to look at this sale and calculate whether it was a good deal for digital collectors. One of the Sony sites said the sale would be for one week only. All titles are MA, of course.
I was surprised to see that I have only 27 of the 100--mostly Westerns and classic musicals--but it certainly helps that this is NOT the "best" 100 Columbia/Sony films. When they have The Net instead of Lawrence of Arabia, that kind of shows that they're going for breadth (and probably stuff that they figure few people would buy). There are probably a couple dozen that I never would've considered buying, but there are many that I just hadn't gotten around to getting, I dislike spending $100 on any media product, but this seems worth it for my collection.
To check, I went to one of the product pages on any of the major services and scrolled through.
https://www.vudu.com/content/browse/...undle-/2880846
ETA: And of course I typo'd the thread title. Oh well.
I was surprised to see that I have only 27 of the 100--mostly Westerns and classic musicals--but it certainly helps that this is NOT the "best" 100 Columbia/Sony films. When they have The Net instead of Lawrence of Arabia, that kind of shows that they're going for breadth (and probably stuff that they figure few people would buy). There are probably a couple dozen that I never would've considered buying, but there are many that I just hadn't gotten around to getting, I dislike spending $100 on any media product, but this seems worth it for my collection.
To check, I went to one of the product pages on any of the major services and scrolled through.
https://www.vudu.com/content/browse/...undle-/2880846
ETA: And of course I typo'd the thread title. Oh well.
For celebrating Columbia Pictures' 100th Anniversary, Sony will have a 100 digital films on sale for $100, starting tomorrow:
https://100for100sale.com (link will be active Jan. 16)
https://www.mediaplaynews.com/sony-c...-titles-sales/
https://100for100sale.com (link will be active Jan. 16)
https://www.mediaplaynews.com/sony-c...-titles-sales/
This sale is live. I can't get the Vudu page to load, or the 100 link above.
iTunes: https://tv.apple.com/us/movie-bundle...g4h3b3s06wk0xq
In a browser, you'll get a pop up of the list of movies. If it doesn't work on iphone, search for one of the movies in the Apple TV app, then scroll down and look for the bundle.
Vudu: https://www.vudu.com/content/browse/...undle-/2880846
I found this on Amazon but don't see a way to purchase there: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/stor...umbia_pictures
I decided to get it. I didn't own around 60 of them. I'll have to go through them, but I think a couple more were 4k upgrades too.
iTunes: https://tv.apple.com/us/movie-bundle...g4h3b3s06wk0xq
In a browser, you'll get a pop up of the list of movies. If it doesn't work on iphone, search for one of the movies in the Apple TV app, then scroll down and look for the bundle.
Vudu: https://www.vudu.com/content/browse/...undle-/2880846
I found this on Amazon but don't see a way to purchase there: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/stor...umbia_pictures
I decided to get it. I didn't own around 60 of them. I'll have to go through them, but I think a couple more were 4k upgrades too.
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01-17-24, 09:05 AM
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Re: Sony/Columbia 100 for $100 sale -- how many do already own?
I'm at 30, but think I also still have Blu Rays for Christine and Salt that I haven't redeemed the codes for.
Agree that it's a bit of an odd collection without heavy hitters like Ghostbusters and Close Encounters.
Agree that it's a bit of an odd collection without heavy hitters like Ghostbusters and Close Encounters.
01-17-24, 09:23 AM
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Re: Sony/Columbia 100 for $100 sale -- how many do already own?
I only have 15, which is much lower than I was expecting, and includes kind of random titles like Ice Castles and Just One of the Guys. Not sure I want to drop $100 on this deal with no UHD option, but I suppose it's possible that Sony/Vudu may upgrade the HDX to UHD for free, like they did with a bunch a couple months back.
01-24-24, 11:17 AM
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Re: Sony/Columbia 100 for $100 sale -- how many do already own?
I ended up getting the set, as there were 16 that I had considered spending $5 on plus several others that interested me. The bundle has now been yanked from services.
01-24-24, 10:33 PM
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Re: Sony/Columbia 100 for $100 sale -- how many do already own?
I did much better on this than I originally thought.
I didn't save my numbers, but it was something like:
~73 new ones
~8 4k upgrades
2 of them, I just bought a week or so earlier for $4.99 each.
~5 only had on disc
Of course, there's probably at 5-10 I don't really have an interest in watching.
I only got Sony Reward points on 7 of them.
I didn't save my numbers, but it was something like:
~73 new ones
~8 4k upgrades
2 of them, I just bought a week or so earlier for $4.99 each.
~5 only had on disc
Of course, there's probably at 5-10 I don't really have an interest in watching.
I only got Sony Reward points on 7 of them.
