xxmartinxx Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 So I go to Best Buy today to pick up the new Watchmen DVD and they only have on version of the DVD which is a Theatrical cut single disc version. All the two disc version they have are Blu-ray. I think that's weird, so I go home to check Amazon, and sure enough... they didn't release this on DVD in anything other than the Theatrical cut. What the fuck?!?! Fuck Blu-ray. I've seen Blu-ray and I kind of think it's looks weird. I'm not buying a new $300 player and rebuying all my DVDs at a premium. I'm not renting them at cost increase from Netflix. So annoyed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kylewilliam Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 wait 2, maybe 3 hours. download a torrent of the extended version someone ripped, and burn it to a dvd. voila! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest naytoid Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 Is this what you're looking for? http://www.amazon.com/Watchmen-Directors....8457976&sr =8-1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexH. Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 Yeah, they definitely released a 2 disc DVD. Personally, I'm waiting for the mega-ultra-deluxe edition that comes out in december. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxmartinxx Posted July 24, 2009 Author Share Posted July 24, 2009 YES! Not sure why it didn't come up in my first search (or why Best Buy isn't carrying it for that matter). Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akross Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 The funny part is that the blu-ray version is actually cheaper... http://www.amazon.com/Watchmen-Directors....8459237&sr= 8-1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murakami Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 that 5 disc deluxe edition should be pretty sweet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirbypuckett Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 I've had this downloaded for like 2 weeks now. Finding the time to watch it is a different story though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slymer Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 I'll be picking up the blu-ray at some point. Blu-ray definitely doesn't look weird. It looks pretty amazing. That is pretty lame that they didn't offer the directors cut on DVD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadmonkey Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 They are releasing a stupid UBER edition with Under the hood integrated into the movie at Christmas time Het it then and get someone else to buy it for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hailthecrisis Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 Best Buy is carrying it. Because I bought it from them. Maybe they were just sold out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burdenx Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 Fuck Blu-ray. I've seen Blu-ray and I kind of think it's looks weird. I'm not buying a new $300 player and rebuying all my DVDs at a premium. I'm not renting them at cost increase from Netflix. : Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
headtowall Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 movie wasn't good enough to even buy. maybe if i had blu ray still just because the action scenes would looks and sound badass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamlikesmusic Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 Pretty sure Best Buy had the 2 disc set when I bought this yesterday. It was like $24. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troymess Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 There were copies of the two disc DVD at my Best Buy. I bought the blu-ray though...it's incredible. Coraline 3-D on blu-ray was also fun. I used some better 3-D glasses than what they packaged with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxmartinxx Posted July 25, 2009 Author Share Posted July 25, 2009 The Target I went to today was out of it as well. FML! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alertthemute Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 Complaining about technology advancing is silly. You have DVDs so you must have abandoned your VHS at some point. The same thing will happen with Blu Ray. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxmartinxx Posted July 26, 2009 Author Share Posted July 26, 2009 Complaining about technology advancing is silly. You have DVDs so you must have abandoned your VHS at some point. The same thing will happen with Blu Ray. Blu-ray will eventually be replaced with nothing. Sooner or later physical media will no longer exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pibbals Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 That's kind of a silly point. Especially on a record collecting forum. I can completely understand not wanting to drop money on a player and I don't get why people say you're "complaining" about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirbypuckett Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 Complaining about technology advancing is silly. You have DVDs so you must have abandoned your VHS at some point. The same thing will happen with Blu Ray. There was a huuuuuge gap in technology between VHS and DVD. Between the DVD and BluRay it boils down to video quality and space. It's not that big of a deal. Even as a technology buff I refuse to jump on the BluRay bandwagon. I'm actually in the process of selling all of my DVDs, because I feel streaming the media will be the future. Music will be the same way and there will still be groups who want to own the physical media, but the majority of people will own digitized collections over the coming years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldsnap Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 Complaining about technology advancing is silly. You have DVDs so you must have abandoned your VHS at some point. The same thing will happen with Blu Ray. There was a huuuuuge gap in technology between VHS and DVD. Between the DVD and BluRay it boils down to video quality and space. It's not that big of a deal. Even as a technology buff I refuse to jump on the BluRay bandwagon. I'm actually in the process of selling all of my DVDs, because I feel streaming the media will be the future. Music will be the same way and there will still be groups who want to own the physical media, but the majority of people will own digitized collections over the coming years. I don't own blueray and don't plan too either, sure i'm missing something, but is it something i really need? no. i'm happy with my dvd and my 27'' tv, i just think blue-ray is same thing happening with cell-phone, as soon as something new is created in the technology world, everybody jumps on it because this world consumes and is materialist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirbypuckett Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 I don't understand your comparison between cellphones and BluRay??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troymess Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 I'm on board with the people above who understand physical media is the past and digitized collections are the future. However, don't knock Blu-ray collectors too hard. Most people collect these for the quality of a movie. Keep in mind, we are collectors ourselves and for the quality of music! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldsnap Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 I don't understand your comparison between cellphones and BluRay??? normal phone --> cellphone dvd --> bluray but thinking about it, it's not a good comparison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldsnap Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 I'm on board with the people above who understand physical media is the past and digitized collections are the future. However, don't knock Blu-ray collectors too hard. Most people collect these for the quality of a movie. Keep in mind, we are collectors ourselves and for the quality of music! yeah, i get what you are saying. i didn't really want to ''knock'' bluray consumers, i wanted to say in the overall of technology, people are depending on technology. for the bluray, is it really worth it? i mean for animation movies is must be really cool, and if you have a home theater. and records existed way before mp3's did, so the quality was there way before (i think we all agree that collect records for the music quality overall). but yeah, i'm not saying bluray is stupid, maybe that it's something that we didn't really need and people are spending money on this and at the end it makes the economy run like any other product on the market. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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