Firefly On Blu-Ray

POSTED BY: everyworldspinnin
UPDATED: Monday, February 18, 2008 08:07
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EVERYWORLDSPINNIN

Friday, February 15, 2008 3:44 AM

It's been like a million years since I posted here. Good to see plenty of the originals still here. :)

Anyway, I'm sure this has to have been covered before, but I couldn't find it. What's going on with Firefly coming to Blu-Ray? I keep seeing it is on Amazon, but nothing ever happens with it.
http://www.amazon.com/Firefly-The-Complete-Series-Blu-Ray/dp/B000Y5JFJ
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Since the Warner Bros/Netflix decisions to back Blu-Ray (and now I see my local Best Buy has cut the HD-DVD shelf space in half, and doubled the Blu-Ray section to three aisles), they can't be waiting for the format war to end.

Does this call for a bit of petitioning like we did (unsuccessfully) in the old days? Seriously, I think we could actually win this one.

Stay Shiny!

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"All great truths begin as blasphemies." George Bernard Shaw

OPPYH

Friday, February 15, 2008 3:56 AM

Bad Ass!!!!

If this is released on Blu-Ray I'd buy it in a second.

I have Serenity in HD, and all I can say of the difference between standard, and HD dvd is...umm, there is no comparison. The HD version is world's better!

FEARTHEMULLET

Friday, February 15, 2008 4:35 AM

I look forward to when the final format of blu-ray is in. I hear that blu-ray 2 is going to be the final version so stave the interest to buy a blu-ray player. Instead purchase a ps3, it handles both formats and is much more accessable, however, the blu-ray controls are impossible. I find it difficult to easily browse the dvd.

OUT2THEBLACK

Friday, February 15, 2008 6:41 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by everyworldspinnin:
It's been like a million years since I posted here. Good to see plenty of the originals still here. :)

Anyway, I'm sure this has to have been covered before, but I couldn't find it. What's going on with Firefly coming to Blu-Ray? I keep seeing it is on Amazon, but nothing ever happens with it.
http://www.amazon.com/Firefly-The-Complete-Series-Blu-Ray/dp/B000Y5JFJ
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Does this call for a bit of petitioning like we did (unsuccessfully) in the old days? Seriously, I think we could actually win this one.

Stay Shiny!

Good of you to drop in on this little rim o'

the 'Verse...Hey , you don't LOOK that old !

Yepper , we covered this before...Recently ,

even...I figure just adding it to your Amazon

'Wish List' might get it done...It's also listed

on the Target.com website , but it's by way of

Amazon anyway...Sure looks Shiny! , too...

Those bungers at the notorious 'F-network' should

all hail the visionary Joss , for having the

cojones to film Firefly in a high-aspect HD

format ! Means a LOT more shiny coin to be

made , don'cha think ?

SIMONWHO

Friday, February 15, 2008 10:16 AM

Well, it was only filmed on film which has then been upconverted to HD. It may need extensive work to reach 1080p quality.

EVERYWORLDSPINNIN

Friday, February 15, 2008 1:23 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by FearTheMullet:
I look forward to when the final format of blu-ray is in. I hear that blu-ray 2 is going to be the final version so stave the interest to buy a blu-ray player. Instead purchase a ps3, it handles both formats and is much more accessable, however, the blu-ray controls are impossible. I find it difficult to easily browse the dvd.

I did as well, until I picked up the Blu-Ray remote that Sony sells. This makes it MUCH easier to browse/control DVD's and Blu-Ray discs. Well worth the 20 bucks!

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"All great truths begin as blasphemies." George Bernard Shaw

CDM22

Friday, February 15, 2008 2:48 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SimonWho:
Well, it was only filmed on film which has then been upconverted to HD. It may need extensive work to reach 1080p quality.

I thought film has a MUCH higher resolution than 1080p though?

ZEEK

Friday, February 15, 2008 3:31 PM

hmmm I don't know about all this. I watched some Firefly on an HD TV with just an upscaling DVD player and I didn't like it at all. It was too crisp. The verse is supposed to be gritty and imperfect. The super crisp picture sorta took away from that feel for me. I don't think I'd ever buy Firefly in HD as long as the DVDs are available.

TDBROWN

Friday, February 15, 2008 3:45 PM

The Universal HD Network has Firefly in HD already. IOW, the series has already been converted to HD. As a matter of fact, Firefly is going to be shown as a regular Series on UniHD this coming March.

Here's the network's home page http://www.universalhd.com/
And Here's the Firefly Message Board http://boards.nbcuni.com/universalHD/index.php?showforum=4

"Might have been the losing side, still not convinced it was the wrong one." -Mal

STORYMARK

Friday, February 15, 2008 6:03 PM

It'll happen eventually, but it's a bit early in the life of the format for them to be filling some of the smaller niches in the market - and like it or not, we're a niche. Very few series sets have come out on BR yet (compared to DVD). They still don't have a lot of the current hit shows on BR, so a much-beloved, but sadly cult-level show, is probably not a high priority.

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