Cool, and that’s all fine. I’m a regular reader on ver at the revamped http://www.horrordvds.com for the last three years, and so I know all about that technology and about winning over the HD-DVD format, ect. I agree there is some difference. Of course as well for us genre fans, if the source material available for a genre classic is only so good, then the releases can only be so good. Such as if you click on that link and see the new Anchor Bay/Critical Mass co-production of Black Christmas, you’ll see the image grade is only a B.

But indeed, there is good things to come from HD. My brother Bobby in this house has an HD widescreen set, and HD channels, so I can see the improvement.

But I’m happy with how DVDs look as well. And untill it IS the new standard, I am just a happy & content lad. But yeah I get everything you said, and aren’t trying to knock it. It’s all cool, bro.

And indeed: Offer’em up in both formats! Yes. Also, what are the latest details ont eh special features (fresh commentary tracks, interviews, possible easter eggs [what, am I the only one to remember those?], ect) on the Parts 1-through-3 set? Also has anyone else besides me wondered if they’ll be able to cover parts 4-through-8 in a new special edition set to make it for the ‘04 boxset (Ultimate Edition my ass)? Gotta agree with the downloadable Dead Pit.com guys that it just seem’s like Paramount is gonna fuck this one up again, cause the numbers for a regular three films at a time, if that’s even what they were thinking of doing, isn’t going to work.

Also there is a poll, if your signed up with http://www.horrordvds.com, in which the latest poll is “So which Friday the 13th’s should be in HD?” and I selected the first 8 from Paramount.

Well stay cool everyone.

Technical Specifications

Color info: Color
Sound mix: Mono
Camera: Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory: DeLuxe
Negative format: 35 mm
Process: Spherical
Printed format: 35 mm
Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1

The link to the Blu-Ray on Amazon.com is this:
http://www.amazon.com/Friday-13th-Unrated-Rmst-Blu-ray/dp/B001K9OXDK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1226447888&sr=1-1

It does say aspect ratio of 2.35:1. I am not sure why this is. Widescreen hi-def is 1.78:1, and the 8-disc box-set is 1.78:1, which means it is “enhanced for wide-screen TV’s.” I am wondering now is this means that the Blu-Ray release has been mastered to keep the black bars at the top/bottom to ensure that no clipping goes on to fill the screen? Thoughts?

Oh, and if it has been remastered for TrueHD sound, then fantastic!!

but to those of us who have bought into this technology, you very quickly get to the point where you just don’t want to watch anything standard def ..it’s just like watching vhs’s after dvd’s came out. since blu-ray won the war on the 1080 format (hd-dvd is officially dead), i think everything should be available on both. if you look at the list of upcoming releases, they’re catching up pretty quick.

More Details Regarding Friday the 13th Blu-ray
Posted November 7, 2008 by Josh Dreuth

Paramount Home Entertainment has revealed more details regarding the upcoming Blu-ray release of ‘Friday the 13th Unrated: Deluxe Edition’, which is currently scheduled to hit store shelves on February 3rd, day-and-date with the DVD release. Video will be presented in 2.35:1 1080p accompanied by a Dolby TrueHD soundtrack as well as a Dolby Digital Mono soundtrack for those of you who want to hear the film as it was originally shown.

Now Amazon usually mistakenly says the aspect ratio of this movie is 2.35:1 when they are preparing for a DVD release…but does this mean something more because they are claiming the info came from Paramount? Are there any official sources that would know if this movie was actually filmed in 1.85:1? It would seem ridiculous after so many releases in that ratio, but it wouldn’t be the first time that a 2.35:1 version of something is released after years of everyone thinking it was filmed in 1.85:1.

That would be a sweet little treat to accompany the proper treatment they are finally giving this movie.

That is cool that you and many others are all for this new format–hey, ntohin’ against you, and watch it and have fun–but untill it’s been around another three years, prices drop and a new official Winner is declared, stanard def DVDs that are remastered look just perfect on regular TV sets. I’ve been to a Best Buy and an up-scale Furniture & Electornics store, and in all honestly, I’m with the group that doesn’t notice that much of a difference to really warrant giving too much of a shit. Plus only so many BluRay discs of genre flms are out as of now. So I care admitedly very little.

Of course three years from now, who knows if it’ll all change? Untill then, I’m a big sorry but I can’t help that not all of us are just not ga-ga over all things HD.

and with that ended:

Ted:
Dude, best of luck with that! I must say for this west Tennessee native, Michigan isn’t really my favoreite place to ever visit (sorry bro; no offence ment), but I would LOVE to see a multiplex at a mall/shopping center or a just regular 4 screen one doing an original first 4 instalments screening with recent fresh prints! That would be BEYOND awesome, and I would make family attend in order to support it. Do this day I’ve never seen the original ones in theaters, and I know many would say “Well why go see something on the big screen, with an audieance when you already own multiple DVD editions of it and you can catch it on television, albiet censroed?”, but those dolts will never understand.

Wish I chould support ya, but I’m back down here in Shreveport, Louisiana (I call it Shitport *lol*) where I grew up for the first 8 years of my life, and I’m afriad there is nothin’ like that around here, unless you go on over to Texas like in Austin (several hours away, sadly–and I don’t even like Texas either, though Austin is kinda cool for cinema events like that).

Big thanks for tryin’ to do that. I wish you the bets of luck even still, even though it sounds like a losing battle. Ahh us hardcore genre fans and our luck .. *sigh*

Just have to do it another way. By the way that 3D converter I bought was at http://www.Ultimate3DHeaven.com
That is for the stereoscopic/field sequential DVDs which uses the shutter glasses.

They are very helpful also as I had a little hookup problem because I needed a rare cord (RCA to coaxial) which they told me where to buy very cheap.

Hope that helps even more.

since the price drop on blu-ray players i got one & it makes such a difference…the picture looks perfect, like you’re in a movie theater..no grainy-ness whatsoever, the blacks are very deep, and the colors are extremely vibrant. the original halloween looks like a new movie…watching it took me back to the first time i saw it, despite being numb to it all these years from seeing it over and over again.

and what’s even better is my regular dvds look five times better on it than they did on my regular upconverting dvd player. just wait, blu-ray will be the standard in no time. the price is going to continue to come down.

i’m dying to get the friday series in hi-def, and to know that the first will be unrated is great. i’d buy 2 & 3 on blu-ray whether unrated or not, even though i already have the vhs’s and dvd’s. i’m just glad paramount is stepping it up with these releases after doing next to nothing for so long…have to support it.

I found and bought both versions along with the converter and glasses. http://www.ioffer.com has both anaglyph DVDs which uses the standard red/blue glasses and stereoscopic/field sequential DVDs which uses the shutter glasses.

The only drawback is that you must use a older tube style TV to view them.

Hope that helps out.

So true, unfortunately. Oh, and I remember the Genesis Ghostbusters game, with the large comedic heads. I liked it when The Angry Video Game Nerd (gotta love that guy) reviewed it. It was, to this date, the only decent lisenced Ghostubusters title ever produced and ported to a gaming console. I rented it once and quite enjoyed itf or a weekend.

Also great news for the Ghostbusters game (and yeah, I hate to get off topic a bit here, but being there is no more official bbs boards here, none of us have a choice):

http://www.fangoriaonline.com/features/horrorcade/468-atari-makes-official-ghostbusters-announcement.html

BEYOND AWESOME news, if I do say so myself! I have got myself a decent LCD TV set, and I cannot wait to see how it’ll look on my PS3. Indeed I noted the recent drop. By next summer, if we all shop in the big retail markets, we should all see perhaps the first big drop in it’s price. Even dropping $50 is good enough for me. It’s nice to meet a fellow GhostHead here.

Being this is basically Ghosbusters III, just being called Ghostbusters: The Game, I’m BEYOND excited.

Ya know I’ve held a fantasy for YEARS that I chould fullfill my genre loving, Slasher icon loving dreams, as well as Fighting Game dreams, and chould be a rich & wealthy man if only I chould make a Slasher Icon fighting game!:D

Dude we truely think alike. And I’ve found a ton online that agree with me as well. Alas, as you and many noted, with the copyright issues, there would just plain be no way it would ever happen …

Big thanks, Pete.

Yeah I’m excited about finally pickin’ up a PS3 for the Ghostbusters game. I also wanna get that Mortal Kombat Vs. D.C. UNiverse as well, and perhaps Star Wars: THe Force Unleashed. A few titles.

But Ghostbusters I’m getting opening week, even if I don’t have a console for a few days, as I’ve waited truely YEARS for an awesome lookin’ Ghostbusters game, fanatic of the two films and the Reel Ghosbusters animated series that I am.

And I feel the 3 disc set of the first three, indeed, is adaquite enough for now, with the new bells & whistles. But hey, to CP:

I am not against new technology that is better, myself–but with regular DVDs looking mightily fine and sounding fine, and with moneey being tight in the Westernized work all over, and with very few titles and with things ALWAYS coming along that promise to look and sound better, I just feel no need myself. So does many.

But alas, toe ach they’re own. *shrugs*.

Now, someone bring on February for the remake and for the His Name Was Jason documentary, and of course around the same time, the Parts 1-through-3 special edition sets. Fuck it, man, I’m gonna be so broke with my usual monthly online ordering, come that time. *lol*