My order for Frighteners shipped yesterday. This'll be a triple dip - the first DVD was a US non-anamorphic which I then updated to a later anamorphic DTS issue. Now the HD DVD. Hope it's worth it, I do like the film after all...

[cooey]

Where did you order from?

My one is currently processing over at Movietyme

www.axelmusic.com - but it takes approx one week to arrive from Belgium/Denmark/Germany (they say it may ship from any of their locations).

[zircon3035]

Double dip for me: I have the US Laserdisc version!

[gatty-jr-jr]

Just sold my german 4 disc set to buy the hd dvd version. awaiting also from axelmusic as i had some paypal dosh to spend.

[pRot3us]

Already?!

/orders immediately

I somehow managed to avoid buying the directors cut dvd, can't wait to see this in HD

[MrSynner]

Triple-dip for me too - had this on Laserdisc, then bought the original DVD, which I replaced with the german 4-disc set, and now the HD-DVD.

Never did get round to watching the 4-disc set though!

[AgentCool]

Mine has now been shipped from MovieTyme. Wouldn't be surprised to see this turn up tomorrow.

[slimgym]

yes frighteners turned up this morning from movietyme....

[cooey]

Mine came today too from MT

[myersfan73]

Just checked mine out & being honest I not as impressed as I was with the new SD-DVD release! Less extras, no dts! I'll be keeping my SD-DVD.

[pRot3us]

Whats the picture quality like?

Still waiting for mine to arrive

[Geoff_D]

Originally Posted by myersfan73

Just checked mine out & being honest I not as impressed as I was with the new SD-DVD release! Less extras, no dts! I'll be keeping my SD-DVD.

Less extras? How do you figure that? The HD-DVD has the exact same 4-hour documentary and Jackson's commentary + intros. And to my ears the DD+ sound is even better than the dts track on the DVD.

As for the picture, it's very good. It's maybe a tiny bit softer than I would like with some slight edge halos, but there's still a pleasing amount of detail, a fine layer of grain and some solid colours. Good stuff.

[KevD]

Originally Posted by myersfan73

Just checked mine out & being honest I not as impressed as I was with the new SD-DVD release! Less extras, no dts! I'll be keeping my SD-DVD.

Have to agree with Geoff_D here, the HDrelease seems to have most if not all the extras of the 4-Disc SE.

Only difference is this is just the DC of the film and DD+ not DTS.

[Geoff_D]

I'll be honest: the disc doesn't appear to have the storyboards from the DVD, but I can't remember the last time (if ever) I looked at a DVD cover and thought 'Ooohhhh! Storyboards! Can't wait to look at those!'.

The Frighteners documentary does not suffer from losing them and is still thoroughly engrossing. But if you love the (45 minutes!!) of storyboards enough to ditch the HD-DVD, then fair enough.

Regarding no DTS, if Universal have been true to form then the DD+ track has been encoded at twice the bitrate of the DTS track on the DVD (1.5 mbps vs. 768 kbps), and it sounds like it too.

[myersfan73]

Not often I see a review I agree with, but in this case I totally do!


http://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/frighteners.html

[Basil Plumley]

I thought the bassline in the SD dts mix was OTT - but this one takes the biscuit!!
OK for bassheads I suppose (of which there are many on this forum)...but I like my films to sound "natural..."