Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2 headed to Blu-ray on September 9th
By Darren Murph 
posted Jun 17th 2008 7:58PM
posted Jun 17th 2008 7:58PM
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posted Jun 17th 2008 7:58PM
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Sweet. This should be good. I can't see myself buying this but a rental for sure. Seems like the only movies worth buying are the kiddie movies that they watch over, and over, and over again like Finding Nemo and Cars.
What was this post about again? I got distracted by a certain avatar.
As long as it has the right special features like the extended Japan scenes.
I had hoped they could put something like Kill Bill on one disc. That would be a 247 minute movie disc with anything extra on another disc. LotR:RotK is 251 minutes total and that better be one disc, so why not this? Just charge me double. Is anyone really going to get one but not the other?
I agree, one of the things I was looking forward to with HD was not having multiple disc sets. I don't want to hear the "customers like multi discs" crap, people buy what they want to buy.
Yeah...on that note, I'm hoping they start putting SD TV series' on Blu-ray.
I'm thinking Simpson's, Family Guy, older non-HD TV sets like X-Files, Alias, etc...
Just encode them at 480i or 480p.
As it is now, they get 4-8 half-hour episodes on 4.5-8.5 GB DVD. That means ~30 episodes in MPEG-2 format on a 50GB Blu-ray easily.
Using MPEG-4 (AVC/H.264), that should cut file sizes down...and they should be able to get a whole season of The Simpsons on one single-layer disk, and a whole season of X-Files or Alias on a 50 GB disk. That would be much nicer than having to switch disks so darned often when you want to watch a full season...
and I'd imagine the BR players out now should be able to upscale this SD content just as well as they can upscale SD video on DVD's, right?
EQC, Alias was originally broadcast in HD, and I want it that way when it eventually comes to Blu-ray. I agree about SD series like The Simpsons though... Not that I'd rebuy them anyway, since I already have them on DVD.
yeah I have the first few seasons of the Simpsons, but I stopped buying TV shows on DVD in anticipation of HD sets. Not just to look better, but because they will take up so much less space.
"must buy?"
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.......
there are other movies that I would rather have on BD first but I'll take it
Man where the hell is that cut that combines the two movies like Tarantino originally wanted?!?!
I thought they said that would be released on DVD years ago...
You're talking about The Whole Bloody Affair, which was released already in Japan. I'm waiting for that to be released in the USA as a Blu-ray set, since I already have the movies as individual DVDs.
Yeah, I already have the two Kill Bill movies on DVD, so I think I'm going to pass on this initial release and write to Disney asking for a combined cut on a single BD. We should all do the same so they know what we want.
Kill Bill 1 & 2 were okay but god were they padded out with junk scenes. It really should have been 1 three hour movie, not 2 movies with some very tedious sections.
And if I owned a BluRay player instead of an HDDVD model, this post might mean something to me.
I'm done early adopting... I'll pick one up when it's selling for 99 bucks at walmart, and both of these films come in a 14.99 two pack.
Great news!