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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: UNI DIST CORP. (MCA)
EAN: 0025192013072
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled, Widescreen
Item Dimensions: 120
Label: Universal Studios
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledSpanishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
MPN: 61108246
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: July 28, 2009
Running Time: 763 minutes
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Genre: Television: Series
Rating: TV14
Release Date: 28-JUL-2009
Media Type: Blu-Ray
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With all the shows that tend to last well beyond their creative peak, I think it was refreshing that a show chose to end a mere four seasons into its run. The trouble with ending so early, is everyone is expecting a conclusion that perfectly wraps up eveything. So, when you're in the last ten episodes of 4.5, every episode is expected to provide more clarity and conclude the mysteries we've all wanted solved for so long. Sadly this did not happen. Certain mysteries were resolved, while other were not. This led to a strong divide amongst the fans as to the merits of the last ten episodes. The reality is, if they are judged on their own, and not merely as a conclusion, it is still very strong. The mutiny story worked very well, as did the very very dark reactions to finding "earth." Sadly, there were a few episodes toward the end where nothing happened, either being answered or in terms of story. Ordinarly this would be just the same old BSG, but the audience wanted a conclusion. So, as conclusion, the last ten episodes were a disapointment, leaving many stories hanging, but as a show on its own merits, they were very good (mostly) and are worth watching.
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This is the reason the BluRay goes for LESS now on Amazon than the DVD!
I was so excited to see BG on BluRay, I was disappointed I had already purchased too many seasons on DVD to justify getting the entire series on Bluray, so this was my only option to get a season I didn't have. (Although other seasons look GREAT when the DVD version is Upscaled!!)
Oh my God I was so disappointed with the BluRay :( I don't know where to start.
The beginning...I put the first Disk in the player and waited with anticipation for the splash screen. It came up..Crystal clear digital lettering, a nice interface. But in the side window, the worst, ugliest video played. It was like looking at 2 different standards. I thought, "My God its like watching a TV station from 100 miles away". The picture was grainy, the colors washed out, it had static. Is this the look they were going for? It made no sense.
I tried playing an episode.
Oh Great, every time you play an episode, Moore has to pop his head up again giving you his 10 minute dissertation on how great this is going to look. HE is digitally clear, bright and the color saturation is perfect!
Then the episode starts. GRAINY, WASHED OUT, TINTED. I tried it in the BluRay and the PS3...Same thing. I wanted to give Moore a slap on his face for the incessant boasting!
I decided there must be a problem with my setup. So I took it to BestBuy. They told me it had to be my $5 HDMI cable. But it looked exactly the same on their $50 Dynex cable (who pays $50 for Dynex anything?) Even their better cables, same thing! Even they had to admit, it wasn't pretty! I thpought he was joking in the commentary, but now I think it actaully was shot with a Retail Store cam.
That is just part of the problem. As I mentioned before this irritating intro by Moore comes up every time you do something with the disk. And its like he is laughing at you for being a sucker and paying the extra 10 bucks or more. He should be apologizing!
Also, when you are watching an episode and you realize you have seen this one already, you can't exit to the main menu. I had to reboot the disk on the Sharp player and the PS3. You are trapped in the episode! Sometimes it just goes blank at the end of the episode and the player can't even shut down. I never had that happen with any other BluRay.
With all this, I won't even go into his wife's babbling and child worship on the commentary track. That one kid of their's should be named PatPat (I swear its the kid version of the guy from Sat. Night Live. Somebody get this kid a nutritionist...please!). And I don't have much appreciation for Moore's cursing on the commentary either. Just doesn't add anything to the content for me.
Anybody want to trade me a DVD version?
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While I watch this last season of Battlestar Galactica, it is with bittersweet pleasure. These characters that I have grown to love, a story line that I miss are almost painful to watch, because I know that their fate. However, in seeing this production, I see things I didn't notice the first time I watched the series on TV. These subtle nuances make this collection a must have to BSG fans. Enough that I *may* consider (in the future) trading in my "normal" DVDs of BSG for BluRay. Actually, I bought a BluRay player just so I could watch this series! While I was one of the folks that was disappointed in the final episode, all of the action leading up to that point was fantastic and innovative. The presentation here makes the interesting journey all that much better. I am looking forward to more material of equal quality.
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The blue-ray BSG finale was outstanding. I got the movie in new condition and delivery time was great.
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Like many BSG Re-imagined fans, part of my growing-up was watching the original TV series (1978-79) as that story line developed, lurched around, rresumed (1980), and then came to a grinding halt; never fully satisfied with the end game. Initially, the BSG Miniseries (2003) and then Season 1 (2004) seemed just weird and unfaithful to the original, but with repeated showings on SciFi (now SyFy) it became an acquired taste, and then eventually an addiction. Friday Nights became planned around BSG airings. Eventually Seasons 1 through 4.0 became available on DVD editions as the only available near-HD format for collecting - until Season 4.5 became available. This presented a bit of an irritating dilemma for Season 4.5: buy it in DVD format to physically match the previous seasons, or buy it in Blu Ray to get the latest HiDef version. I chose the Blu Ray edition.
Unfortunately the packaging for the Blu-Ray BSG discs is rather bizarre. The DVDs came in nice, orderly, single-disc individual cases packaged in a boxed set, around 5 discs cases per box - nice and organized. The 4.5 Blu-Ray discs came in a single folding case with 3 discs mounted on spindles, and Disc 3 is sort of offset but underneath Disc 2, so you have to remove Disc 2 and set it aside to get to Disc 3. It gets my vote for Worst Packaging Ever - very inconvenient to use, at least relative to the orderly DVD box sets. It makes me wish i had chosen the DVD version of 4.5, which (presumably) nicely matches in style and packaging format with the other DVDs.
The Blu-Ray discs play just fine, meeting all expectations of the HD Blu Ray format. The previous season DVDs also play very nicely on a high quality Blu Ray player which does the proper upscaling. I do not see any significant and compelling advantages in replacing previous BSG DVDs with Blu Ray versions. Again - I am 50-50 on purchasing Season 4.5 as a stand-alone Blu Ray edition. I would have been much happier if the disc packaging had matched the form and convenience of the DVD sets. If I had not been purchasing the DVDs all along in previous seasons, I might have held off and gotten all of them in the Blu Ray format when that became an option after Season 4.5.
As far as content - if you were happy with the re-imagined BSG series and finale, then you will be happy with either the DVDs or the Blu Ray discs themselves. Mix and Matching though (as I did) is not very optimal, and I strongly prefer the convenience of the original DVD set packaging over the complexity and inconvenience of the newer Season 4.5 Blu Ray disc packaging. How hard would it have been to match?
Nitpicking at the inconvenient packaging aside, the re-imagined BSG series is epic, and the Blu ray edition is crystal clear (notwithstanding the production itself, which was always notable for sometimes grainy, shifty camera angles and such for a dynamic, "live" effect), and occasionally stunning, particularly when watching massive explosions and such frame-by-frame in "war scenes".
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