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Fang Zei
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Disney to buy 20th (21st) Century Fox? (Disney has now bought them - 14 Dec '17)
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19-Mar-2019, 11:02 PM

crissrudd4554 said:

DominicCobb said:

Everyone points to Blade Runner as the best way to do multiple versions on disc, but ironically for the past couple years the Final Cut has been the only one in print.

There is a box set in the U.K. with the Final Cut on UHD and the other cuts on a regular Blu-ray. Not exactly the same but it’s something I guess and at least it’s region free.

I actually went ahead and bought the blu-ray a full year before I even had a player and a month before the format war with hddvd had even formally been declared over.

At the time, I remember thinking “all cuts of the film in hd? This is the last time I’ll ever need to buy a physical copy of this movie.”

To be honest, that’s still how I feel. I won’t be upgrading to 4k anytime soon, but even when that inevitably happens, I won’t be rebuying Blade Runner just to watch the Final Cut at its full res.

The modern equivalent of the GOUT would be putting out a 4k UHD final version that includes a 1080p HD unaltered cut. Blade Runner had that excuse in 2017 since the grand collection had been released a decade earlier and only the final cut was finished in 4k. Star Wars doesn’t have that excuse in 2019 since the grand collection is yet to happen. It should be as up-to-date and future-proofed as possible.