Mark’s Down On Your Syntax said:
Anchor Bay teamed up with Shout Factory to release a huge boxed set of the first 10 Halloween films. Unfortunately, it’s the only way to get the original film with the damned mono track, and lossless to boot. But you can’t get it individually. Which is all I want. Goddamn first world problems.
We kinda discussed something along similar lines to this near the bottom of this page and some more people replied on the next page. I bought the 10-disc set not knowing that a 15-disc set existed so I was trying to figure out what I was missing out on.
From what I can tell the Halloween version in the 10 disc box is just disc one from the 2-disc 35th anniversary release (you get both in the 15-disc set.) You can buy the 35th anniversary individually, prices vary wildly but I’ve never seen it more expensive than the 10-disc set. I think that’s your best option, Mike.
The “mono” on the 35th anniversary version, apart from being lossy DD 2.0, is unfortunately just a downmix of remix. It’s only the boxed set version with the real mono, and lossless to boot.
But maybe the new film’s release this year will bring yet another re-release of the original so it might be worth waiting for that?
This thought has more than once occurred to me. When’s the new film due?