Would you buy 2 editions of a movie on purpose ?

[Flower's Friend]

Note in the title I include the word purpose. So I am not talking about a case where you allready have Bambi on Vhs and then when it comes to Dvd you will have both. This is what I mean. When Bambi comes out not only am I getting it on Dvd but also on Vhs. I do this with my favorite movies. Like I have my Dumbo Dvd and since I like that movie so much I order an out of print Vhs copy of it from someone. With Lord of the Rings and Star Wars I got both the Cinema versions and the Special Editions.

With most movies I just buy the best Dvd edition. If they have two edition and one has a bunch of extra stuff with it I don't mind paying extra to get it. But with my top favorite movies such as Bambi,Dumbo, Alice in Wonderful, Lord of the Rings I like to collect by getting a few Vhs editions, and different Dvd editions ect.

P.S. I must add that I always like anything with new footage over the first edition ever seen in the cinema, except with the old Star Wars Trilogy. I feel the Star Wars Version that came out in 1977,1980,1983 was better then when they came out again in 1997. But I still just had to own the special edtion of Star Wars anyway lol

P.P.S. Not that you need to know this but I thought I would add that with Bambi I allready have different Vhs Editions and when the New Edition comes out I will have 3 Vhs Editions and as for the Dvd I might buy it twice, my thinking is its rare that one of my Dvd's get's a little scratch so what would be the chances that 2 Dvds of the same movie would get scratched , I want my Bambi Dvd to stay perfect so this way I have nothing to worry about more or less lol

[Key]

I'm not adverse to buying more than one edition of a film, especially if said edition is in another format.

I have the VHS of Pocahontas as well as the Gold Collection DVD and I will be the first in line to buy the ME that comes out on May 5th. (:

If it's multiple editions of the same film on DVD, I may be a bit more cautious about spending my money, but I usually let up if I love the film and the release I have is somehow "inferior" to the newer edition.

[Ciaobelli]

If the new version offers more than its predecessor then I would, if the movie is good enough.

[TM2-Megatron]

I don't think I'd ever do it on purpose. I'd certainly never buy a VHS movie these days; there's absolutely no advantage to it that I can see. It's the same movie in lesser quality without any bonus features. And the prices of new VHS movies aren't even that cheap in many cases. I never really collected VHS, so I haven't bought many DVDs that I already had on VHS. In the few cases where I have, the higher audio/video quality and bonus features make it worth it.

As for DVDs, I usually tend to avoid buying a bare-bones edition of a movie on DVD since a better version of it will inevitably come out eventually. So, unfortunately, I'm waiting on buying many Disney movies due to the fact their current DVD releases are terrible.

[IggieKuzco]

i wouldnt have done it before dvd....
but now that they're all these 2disc...special.. masterpiece... collecters... box sets.... its just hard to say no

[thatartguy]

Some movies deserve it. With certain ones like Lord of the Rings, I'd like to have both the theatrical and extended edtions.

I have my laserdisc transfers of the theatrical releases of the Star Wars Trilogy. I'm not getting any other versions until:

A.) Lucas fixes all the technical problems that are all over the DVD release. (reversed speaker problems, green lightsabers in A New Hope, etc.)
B.) They're the original theatrical releases.

What Lucas *should* have done was released both (theatrical and his "new" vision) versions, or took a hint from the Alien Quadrilogy and included both.

[Roklie]

As for DVDs, I usually tend to avoid buying a bare-bones edition of a movie on DVD since a better version of it will inevitably come out eventually. So, unfortunately, I'm waiting on buying many Disney movies due to the fact their current DVD releases are terrible.

I agree, and that's one reason why my collection doesn't include nothing else than Platinum- and Special Editions. Even if the movie is the thing why I buy the DVD I still need something else too after I've watched the movie. The ordinary Disney DVD:s are very, very bad as DVD:s already because the quality isn't very good (the Pocahontas looks almost like the VHS version) and there's a very small amount of extras. I like extras in every movie, but in Disney movie's it's just a must have.

[2099net]

Would I buy two versions of a movie? Of course. And I have. Many times.

I get releases from all over the world, including:

Peter Pan SE USA
Peter Pan 2 disc France
Peter Pan Antholgy Japan (Peter Pan 2 disc + Return to Never Land)

Atlantis CE USA
Atlantis CE UK
Atlantis CE France

I also have multiple copies of The Lion King, The Lion King 1.5/3, Treasure Planet, Lilo and Stich, Pocahontas, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast and Snow White. A few of these are "upgrades" but most are the same discs (Or supposedly the same, sometimes there are regional differences).

I'm happy to do so, as I regard my "international" discs as a collection.

[PatrickvD]

Would I buy two versions of a movie? Of course. And I have. Many times.

I get releases from all over the world, including:

Peter Pan SE USA
Peter Pan 2 disc France
Peter Pan Antholgy Japan (Peter Pan 2 disc + Return to Never Land)

Atlantis CE USA
Atlantis CE UK
Atlantis CE France

I also have multiple copies of The Lion King, The Lion King 1.5/3, Treasure Planet, Lilo and Stich, Pocahontas, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast and Snow White. A few of these are "upgrades" but most are the same discs (Or supposedly the same, sometimes there are regional differences).

I'm happy to do so, as I regard my "international" discs as a collection.

that is a great multi-region collection! I have Disney dvd's from various regions as well. I have two Beauty and the Beasts, two Pinocchio's, two Alice in Wonderlands.. Emperor's New Groove. And I will gladly upgrade collector's editions of Pocahontas, Tarzan and Lilo and Stitch... from whatever region it looks to be the best resentation (packaging, content etc ) Sometimes, France has the best one.. sometime the U.K, sometimes the U.S. or simply the nearby region 2 dutch edition.

[deathie mouse]

Yes I would, I have, and probably will keep on doing it

Right now I have three different versions of Fantasia (1 on LD, 2 on DVD) The three are totally different. (And yet none has the Pastorale uncensored )

Since PAL came into my life, DVD duplicates have multiplied a little more.

I have Bambi on Laserdisc and look forward to having it directly transfered from the b/w tri-color separations and digitally massaged.

I have three different color renditions of the Wizard of Oz, and 3 of An American in Paris. between all of them that makes 4 LDs, 1 DVD and one S-VHS.

VHS versions? uh uh. nope.

etc etc.

As for STAR WARS, I'm with thatartguy.
I have the version that looks like the pics on the top



If I were to buy another one, It would be one that uses blue on the dvd player laser and not on the transfer

[AwallaceUNC]

The only time I can recall doing that is for LOTRs and Mary Poppins. For each, though, I ended up deciding that there are only x times I'll see these films (a lot, comparitively, but still limited), and the number of times that I'll use the inferior version just doesn't warrant keeping it when I could save some money on the double-dip. If there was good reason for it, though, I would.

-Aaron

[Lars Vermundsberget]

Counting laserdiscs, there are quite a few Disney films of which I've got two, three or four editions.

But I wouldn't really buy two editions of the same title "on purpose" unless they'd both have something substantial and different to offer.

[Evil Genie Jafar]

In my case just Aladdin:

I wanted the Collector's Gift set and I preordered it. But I just couldn't wait for it to arrive so I bought the normal version a day early of it's release on a store. Then again I couldn't wait for the set to so I ended up cancelling the order and buying it from a store.

[Sunset Girl]

Ah, that depends on the title and what bonus features are available.

I intially held off on DVD's at first since the players were so expensive (man, remember when they were over $700?), and of course, I also had to wait to see if Disney was gonna go for the format. Something that also swayed me in that direction was that I could finally have bi-lingual anime.

Anyway, I slowly attempted to upgrade my Disney VHS's, especially since some of the later ones were so bad in quality, like the titles A Bug's Life and Tarzan. There was a lot of visual noise and flickering in the high-contrast areas. On the other hand, I'm careful to hold onto certain VHS's, like Fantasia, since it's not cut the same as the DVD.

I eventually learned to avoid bare-bones DVD's whenever possible after more and more special editions came out. I'll admit it, I had to double dip a few times, like with Mulan and a few non-Disney titles. And I'll be double dipping when The Little Mermaid and a few others return. And I'm not counting it when I replace a VHS.

I did buy the R2 version of Pocahontas because not only did I dislike the R1 cover, I was really steamed that they didn't include the "If I Never Knew You" song. But even though I have that R2 disc, I'm still more than happy to buy the upcoming special edition. The other R2 disc I own is The Last Unicorn [non-Disney] since the R1 disc is so horrible.

Sometimes buying more than one copy of the same movie is justified.

[Disney Guru]

Yes I have a few movies on VHS/DVD, but usually when I buy the dvds I sell the vhs's.[/b]

[_tink_]

I have 2 to 3 editions of most disney movies between vhs, laserdisc, and dvd. I will upgrade my dvd's when they come out with 2-disc special editions.

[reyquila]

I have the regular releases and the materpiece or collector edition of Mulan, Alice in Wonderland, A Bug's Life, Atlantis, Emperor's New Groove and Dinosaur. I'm planning on buying Tarzan CE, Fantasia Anthology and the Ultimate Toy Box despite the fact I have the regular releases. As I've said: I want then all !!!