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These are supposedly packs of four action figures to be released in May in conjunction with some sort of “digital release.” Apparently, the debut of all six films on the Netflix-like services.
Info: Digital Release? Hasbro releasing "digital release commemorative collection" in May
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Every time I hear another rumor about this "digital release," I get more and more concerned that Disney might try bi-passing Star Wars on physical media altogether and only sell the OOT as a download and/or stream from now until eternity.
As that dude from Wired magazine said back in September of '06 during the GOUT debacle:
"They're not going to make the fans happy because the happy fan has everything he or she needs."
I would love to be wrong about that, but these rumors don't inspire much confidence.
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Unless the figures include Wolfman and Sebastian Shaw's ghost, I won't get too excited.
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After re-reading the stories, my reaction feels a bit premature.
It could be that they're merely putting the movies up for sale on iTunes (or something) in May, well in advance of a potential new blu-ray in September.
If this rumor is true, it should be very interesting to see if the download version is the same old Lowry transfer yet again or if this will be the debut of the newer 4k master.
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I would be disturbed if it was a digital-only release, especially if it's a new transfer, for two reasons.
1. If it can be downloaded at all, it would most likely have drm on it.
2. Regardless if it has drm or not, it would most likely be highly compressed, as I doubt the general public cares much about video quality and are more concerned with what they might view as a "waste of space", especially if the download is in HD or 4k.
At least if it were the old Lowry transfer there would be no point in downloading them, since you can get it through superior sources ('04 HDTV rips and '11 Blu-ray)
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Danfun128 said:
I would be disturbed if it was a digital-only release, especially if it's a new transfer, for two reasons.
1. If it can be downloaded at all, it would most likely have drm on it.
2. Regardless if it has drm or not, it would most likely be highly compressed, as I doubt the general public cares much about video quality and are more concerned with what they might view as a "waste of space", especially if the download is in HD or 4k.
At least if it were the old Lowry transfer there would be no point in downloading them, since you can get it through superior sources ('04 HDTV rips and '11 Blu-ray)
Well, regarding #1 the response is always "not for long".
I think if something were digital only, it would only be that way for a limited amount of time (promotion with Netflix, whatever). They would be making their money back on the new transfer with BluRay sales at some point.
If indeed they are going to release the UOT this year, that would probably be held off until a physical medium release. On the other hand, doing the UOT digitally first as a beta test would allow them to get (too much) feedback about it before committing to a release that we will inevitably find things wrong with. But of course it's silly to assume they'll care about stuff like that.
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Not getting my hopes up for an unaltered release in any format. I'll believe it when I see it.
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I've bought HD movies off itunes when they don't come to blu-ray, and if that would be the case here they would be very compressed. My biggest 1080p itunes movie is just 4.5GB in size when blu-ray can go up to 50GB.
Still don't think we're going to see a theatrical release anyway.