By the way, the bonus features and spiffed up prints on the Universal Legacy Series DVDs are the main reason I want them.
Not even with a gun to my head would I give up !
Another thing worth mentioning is that I’ve seen all the films on the Masterpiece Collection and would readily give up about half (the ones I’m hesistant on are Shadow of A Dobut, Rope, Rear Window, Vertigo and Psycho)
Is the difference between prints a big difference?
Yeah.
Take it.
I’d be willing to give up Shadow of a Doubt for North By Northwest and Rope for The Lady Vanishes, but not Marnie for Les Diaboliques, so I couldn’t do it.
Flip a coin.
By the way, I thought the Hitchcock Collection had great extra material, Psycho, Rear Window, and Vertigo did have a documental about the making of the movie when I bought them… However, I live in Mexico and I guess things run up differently there where you live.
I’d do it.
Keep the first set till you’ve watched MARNIE and THE BIRDS enough times to think they’re the most amazing things ever.
I’ve seen The Birds 5 times.
I’ve seen The Birds 5 times.
I’ve seen The Birds 5 times.
Aside from Shadow of a Doubt and The Birds (possibly Frenzy as well, I haven’t seen it), there’s nothing worth keeping that you won’t be getting a better edition of. I’d instantly swap.
(By the way, I own the 2-Disc Legacy Edition of Psycho (great) and the 50th Anniversary North by Northwest blu-ray (revalatory! You won’t believe what you’re seeing!)
If you want better looking versions, why not go for it? Anyway, aren’t all of those films available in new separate versions anyway? And possibly in better transfers?
I must say I am confused by all of the Hitchcock DVD versions over the last few years. I thought the Masterpiece Collection in the velour box was supposed to be the ant’s pants, but I gather that more recent individual film releases are better – is that the case?
I recently viewed Vertigo on TV – it was a HD presentation. Just for fun I stuck my PAL DVD of the restored Katz/Harris film and compared. The Pal DVD was atrocious in comparison. I can’t bear to watch it again. In the absence of a bluray forthcoming, I have considered getting the current region 1 disc, which I hear is better.
What amazes me is that my Vertigo DVD is really that poor. Has any additional restoration work been done since the Katz/Harris resoration, or is it just that the first DVD transfer was lousy?
Yes, the recent Universal re-issues are excellent, far superior in picture, audio, features and packaging to all previous versions.
Ryan Michaels
Okay,
So I’m considering seriously the following deal.
I’d be giving up the Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece Collection, which includes one-discs editions of Saboteur, Shadow of a Doubt, Rope, Rear Window, The Trouble With Harry, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds, Marnie, Torn Curtain, Topaz, Frenzy, and Family Plot.
In exchange, I’d be receiving 2-disc Universal Legacy Series versions of Rear Window, Vertigo and Psycho, a 2-disc 50th Anniversary Edition of North by Northwest, and the Criterion Collection versions of Les Diaboliques and The Lady Vanishes.
Thanks!