DisneyQuack wrote:I was just wondering if there was a list anyone has put together of the best DVD/Bluray's put out by Disney, judging by video quality, extras, etc. I know there have been numerous DVD's for certain films, and just wanted to make sure I had/have the best ones out there.
Technical-wise, if it's on Blu-Ray, that's the best version unless it's the DNR-to-Death
The Sword in the Stone (or
The Smear in the Stone as
TonyWDA dubbed it). But when you add in the nostalgia and the rose-colored glasses of "this isn't how it's supposed to look!", then it gets tricky. For one thing, you get crackpot claims that a 1994 VHS looks better than a 2009 DVD, or that because the colors aren't what you're used to on one format, that they must be wrong. Or that just because you might prefer the newer format, that you don't really care about the classics, and you shouldn't be allowed to talk about them on a forum like this. Talking about video quality with all those faded memories clouding your judgment won't do anyone any good.
If you want all the supplements across all the releases, you might as well collect all the formats, usually something gets lost along the way and/or replaced by something new. This is especially true of some 2011-2013 catalog titles that lost their supplements entirely, or had them banished to Virtual Vault (itself a now defunct accessory). But that all depends on how much you want/watch the extras. As I got older, I realized I had less time for them, but I still wanted to know they were there, even if they might go unwatched for a long time.
Sometimes, the DVD in a Blu-Ray combo pack will be the same disc as a previous release, rendering holding onto both version as redundant. For example, the 2012
Treasure Planet Blu-Ray combo pack uses the same 2003 DVD that was made for the film's first (and only) DVD release. But this is a puzzling, case-by-case basis. That same day, Disney released
Home on the Range on Blu-Ray, and the DVD in that combo pack is an entirely new disc that doesn't use animated menus anymore. WDSHE is an odd little duck in that regard.
2Disney4Ever wrote:I've always been here out of a passion for Disney, like anybody else, only that passion is based on what Disney means to me from my perspective
And therein lies the problem. This forum is not just for you, it is for everyone. Disney means different things to every single person. Calling the focus of this forum as "corrupt New Age CGI Disney" shows not only an ignorance for what this forum has been for the past twelve years (of which you've only been here for one; during that solitary year, you've left it twice only to return again), but also a willful ignorance towards what anyone else may think Disney means to them. Perhaps if you'd try to get along with everyone on the playground instead of insisting it should only be what you want it to be, maybe you'll learn a thing or two.
But that's just me. Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about at all, despite having been here for eleven years (two of which were spent writing reviews for the site, and the most recent three as one of the forum moderators). I mostly love Disney in every incarnation - Walt or Post-Walt, Eisner or Iger, 2D or CGI, live-action or acquired properties - so that perspective is moot to you anyway.
Albert