TMNT first season 4 disc set is coming out in october

[IMJ]

Wasn't this show rendered in high def animation? It's ridiculous that there is no amazing blu ray transfer. Nick is going for the triple dip here - sucker in fans with the single DVD releases, then do this nonsense season 1 release (with TEN, count 'em TEN minutes of online only footage hahaha) and then eventually let go with a Blu Ray that will probably be missing something.

Guys, don't play to the collector addictions and buy this set. Rewarding Nick with a DVD purchase does not encourage a Blu Ray release. Make them do it right and only buy the product that's worth it to you. That's how the free market needs to work to command to these organizations what we want.

Buying this dangling worm of a set is just as bad as re-buying Playmates "repaints" figures.

[Roseangelo]

Originally Posted by atreyu2112

Honestly, I don't know anyone that still has a SD TV and just a regular DVD player ... this isn't the 90s or the 2000s anymore, lol. Asking me to buy a DVD is like asking DVD lovers to buy it on VHS. Seriously.

Watching DVDs doesn't mean you have an old SD TV. I have an HD TV and am perfectly content with DVD quality.

[Zulithe]

Sticking to my iTunes season subscriptions (1080p!) until blu-ray happens... if it never happens, then they'll never get me to double dip.

Not having blu-ray in 2014 is ridiculous. how many households don't have a blu-ray player of SOME kind? PS3, PS4, XBox One... they're everywhere.

[arkangel]

Originally Posted by Zulithe

Sticking to my iTunes season subscriptions (1080p!) until blu-ray happens... if it never happens, then they'll never get me to double dip.

Not having blu-ray in 2014 is ridiculous. how many households don't have a blu-ray player of SOME kind? PS3, PS4, XBox One... they're everywhere.

Hey, easy man.
I have a great tv but just a regular sony dvd player and my last game machine was a sega genesis. Doesn't make me ridiculous.
I do agree with you on the double dip thing, but that's unfortunately the way of marketing. You want to see monstrous double dipping, just look at IDW. How many formats and collections do you need for the same comics.
Damn... I gotta buy a BluRay since you made me feel old.

[Autbot_Benz]

I still watch DVD's Blu Ray are not worth it wow so you get crisper picture and better sound quality big deal.

I won't upgrade to Blu Ray as long as DVD's exist

[Storm Eagle]

Originally Posted by Zulithe

Not having blu-ray in 2014 is ridiculous. how many households don't have a blu-ray player of SOME kind? PS3, PS4, XBox One... they're everywhere.

Originally Posted by arkangel

Hey, easy man.
I have a great tv but just a regular sony dvd player and my last game machine was a sega genesis. Doesn't make me ridiculous.
I do agree with you on the double dip thing, but that's unfortunately the way of marketing. You want to see monstrous double dipping, just look at IDW. How many formats and collections do you need for the same comics.
Damn... I gotta buy a BluRay since you made me feel old.

Originally Posted by Autbot_Benz

I still watch DVD's Blu Ray are not worth it wow so you get crisper picture and better sound quality big deal.

I won't upgrade to Blu Ray as long as DVD's exist

It was a couple of years ago when I went to a Best Buy store, and one of the people there told me that they're actually selling more DVDs than Blu-rays. I'm not sure how things might be now, but I once saw an article that says Blu-ray is losing out to digital downloads now.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/1/567...irment-charges

I may have gone primarily Blu-ray last year, but I won't knock those who don't have the means to play them.

For the record, I might have DVR, but when I want to record something to keep for permanent, I still have to work with a VCR.

[pennydreadful]

Originally Posted by arkangel

Hey, easy man.
I have a great tv but just a regular sony dvd player and my last game machine was a sega genesis. Doesn't make me ridiculous.
I do agree with you on the double dip thing, but that's unfortunately the way of marketing. You want to see monstrous double dipping, just look at IDW. How many formats and collections do you need for the same comics.
Damn... I gotta buy a BluRay since you made me feel old.

I'll join you in the oldies corner; I've still only got a DVD player as well! Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go shout at some darn kids to get off my lawn...

[Zulithe]

Can't believe the DVD loyalty that is still going on in this day and age...

Streaming or digital downloads is a different matter. The convenience factor wins out over quality and the other benefits of having a hard copy like a blu-ray. You can't compare them 1:1

With dvd and blu-ray though you definitely can. There are people who like to say that because it's animation the quality difference is not that different or major.

Well see for yourself, just one of many, many comparisons you can find online:

http://www.pixartalk.com/2009/06/the...ce-with-pixar/

Now WHY would you pick dvd over blu-ray knowing this to be true... unless cost is the only factor that matters to you? Blu-Ray players are not expensive... and if you have a game system such as PS3/PS4/XBox One then you already have one anyway.

if you don't want blu-ray at least understand that it does have strong merits over dvd.

Doesn't matter that digital downloads and streaming have more market share than blu-ray. hard copies are not going anywhere because they have utility that streaming can't replace. There's also the matter of 4K and 8K slowly starting to come to homes... you start to run into technical limitations of being able to download/store/stream such huge files... hard copies are going to remain the answer.

[Wentos]

I've been eagerly awaiting my chance to throw some money at this series, but I just can't see myself spending money on standard definition DVDs. Legend of Korra has blu-ray season sets. Spectacular Spider-Man got a blu-ray set. Green Lantern The Animated Series and Batman Brave and the Bold have gotten blu-ray sets. There's really no excuse for DVD-only anymore.

I'm really hoping Nick eventually gets their act together and releases the blu-ray sets a lot of fans are holding out for.

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Nick you have to do two things:

- Release the Nick show on blu-ray

- Release the 4kids series in a complete series or season sets


Only then will we be satisfied.

I think I just found my signature.

[arkangel]

Originally Posted by pennydreadful

I'll join you in the oldies corner; I've still only got a DVD player as well! Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go shout at some darn kids to get off my lawn...

High five to my partner in crime!

Zulithe - Was talking to my 14 year old neice this evening and apparently she agrees that it's ridiculous to not have a blu-ray in 2014, but she went too far when she said DVD quality is total crap and that I probably can't tell the difference because my eyes are older. She's such a brat..

I completely agree that there is an obvious quality difference between the 2 formats. That's a no brainer. It's more a matter of how discerning your preference/taste is. For me, I like to see effects laden blockbusters in the theatre to get the full experience, but for my toons, I'm seriously ok with DVD.
Now get off my lawn!

[DVD]

The amount of people that don't have BD is astounding.
I asked my Computer Science class who owned a BD player, as I had some spares to give away. Out of 17, only one had one.
They all maintained there was no difference.. So, experiment time.
I played the BD of The Matrix into two HD 42" monitors I have set up. I set one to standard def playback and the other to 1080p. I had everyone sit around the two monitors. Within 5 minutes, everyone had shuffled their chairs around to the 1080p playback. There IS a difference.

That said, and back on topic, I'll stick with my DVD copies for now. Played though a BD up scaling, these do like good enough for now.

And, that said.... If I see the series issued on BD, I'm all over it !!!

[Kendamu]

I haven't been buying the individual releases. I just grab the episodes on Amazon Instant Video. If a Blu-ray version is announced, I'll get it.

[pennydreadful]

Originally Posted by Zulithe

With dvd and blu-ray though you definitely can. There are people who like to say that because it's animation the quality difference is not that different or major.

Well see for yourself, just one of many, many comparisons you can find online:

http://www.pixartalk.com/2009/06/the...ce-with-pixar/

Now WHY would you pick dvd over blu-ray knowing this to be true... unless cost is the only factor that matters to you? Blu-Ray players are not expensive... and if you have a game system such as PS3/PS4/XBox One then you already have one anyway.

if you don't want blu-ray at least understand that it does have strong merits over dvd.

Oh I agree that blu-ray is better visual quality than dvd... it just doesn't really bother me that much (I know, I'm a total pleb). Will I get a blu-ray one day? Sure, when my current dvd player dies. But until then, dvd-quality has worked for me for years; waiting a few more until the inevitable upgrade won't hurt me.

[Storm Eagle]

Originally Posted by Zulithe

Can't believe the DVD loyalty that is still going on in this day and age...

There's still loyalty for VHS even nowadays, and there are such people who are under 40. I'm under 40 as well, and I guess there's still something nice about using a VCR.

There's some obscure material that has been on VHS that hasn't even made it to DVD. A lot of movies still have yet to go to Blu-ray, but I wonder if Blu-ray will even last long enough for them to.

Originally Posted by Wentos

I've been eagerly awaiting my chance to throw some money at this series, but I just can't see myself spending money on standard definition DVDs. Legend of Korra has blu-ray season sets. Spectacular Spider-Man got a blu-ray set. Green Lantern The Animated Series and Batman Brave and the Bold have gotten blu-ray sets. There's really no excuse for DVD-only anymore.

Except for maybe the cost of putting things out on Blu-ray compared to DVD.

When the first season of 2 Broke Girls was released on home video, it was put out on both formats. Somehow, the Blu-ray version didn't sell as well. That's why the second and third seasons are DVD-only.

Originally Posted by arkangel

Zulithe - Was talking to my 14 year old neice this evening and apparently she agrees that it's ridiculous to not have a blu-ray in 2014, but she went too far when she said DVD quality is total crap and that I probably can't tell the difference because my eyes are older. She's such a brat..

I completely agree that there is an obvious quality difference between the 2 formats. That's a no brainer. It's more a matter of how discerning your preference/taste is. For me, I like to see effects laden blockbusters in the theatre to get the full experience, but for my toons, I'm seriously ok with DVD.

Originally Posted by DVD

The amount of people that don't have BD is astounding.
I asked my Computer Science class who owned a BD player, as I had some spares to give away. Out of 17, only one had one.
They all maintained there was no difference.. So, experiment time.
I played the BD of The Matrix into two HD 42" monitors I have set up. I set one to standard def playback and the other to 1080p. I had everyone sit around the two monitors. Within 5 minutes, everyone had shuffled their chairs around to the 1080p playback. There IS a difference.

I also like having material on Blu-ray since I don't have to make adjustments with those. My Blu-ray player is supposed to automatically set DVDs to the right visual ratio, but some time after, I found that there were parts of the picture missing. So I had to make even more adjustments to make sure I'd get the whole picture. It's not a big deal with DVDs that present something in 4:3, however. Those are easy.

[Shark_Blade]

I never look back on dvds,vcds,vhs after I experienced bluray/HD.

Get with the time Nick.

[CyberCubed]

LOL, DVDs are now what VHS releases were in the early 2000's.

Anyone remember the 4kids series had VHS tape releases? Pretty sure all of Season 1 was released on VHS and DVD.

[TheSkeletonMan939]

Where's my Blu-ray??!

[Storm Eagle]

Amazon now has a listing.

http://www.amazon.com/Teenage-Mutant...=Ninja+Turtles

[CyberCubed]

Man, I can't believe we got to the point where DVDs are viewed as worthless as VHS tapes. My my, how times have changed.

It wasn't that long ago that DVDs were all the rage.

[ABrown]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

LOL, DVDs are now what VHS releases were in the early 2000's. Anyone remember the 4kids series had VHS tape releases? Pretty sure all of Season 1 was released on VHS and DVD.

I've got a few VHS releases that were from as late as the third season. There was two releases with the alien invasion episodes. And there was a release with the Ultimate Drako episodes.

I was pretty disappointed when I went to tvshowsondvd.com this morning and saw "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - 4-DVD Set of 'The Complete First Season: The Beginning'". I tought to myself "THE 4KIDS SERIES IS GETTING RERELEASED!"