Dazed & Confused/Land of the Dead being re-released as non-combos

[Sporadic]

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has announced that the following films will be available to own in high-definition exclusively on HD DVD, come March 11, 2008.

Dazed & Confused (Re-issued as a non-combo HD DVD) / $29.98 SRP

1080p High-Definition Widescreen 1.85:1
Dolby Digital-Plus (5.1 English, 2.0 French & 2.0 Spanish)
English [SDH], French & Spanish subtitle options

George A. Romero's Land of the Dead (Re-issued as a non-combo HD DVD) / $29.98 SRP

1080p High-Definition Widescreen 2.35:1
Dolby Digital-Plus 5.1 (English & Spanish)
English [SDH], French & Spanish subtitle options
Bonus material includes:
- Feature Commentary with Director George Romero, Producer Peter Grunwald and Editor Michael Doherty

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Pretty cool, I've been waiting for Land Of The Dead to get a re-release.

[Giantfoot08]

I was not huge fan of either of these movies, but I am excited to see Universal is re-releasing non-combo versions of thier releases. The $27 price point has been a little to high for me on some titles, so I hope they continue this with all thier titles...

[jgantert]

Please let Animal House and Fast Times be next!!!

[KillerCannabis]

Not cool: the fact that they dropped all the bonus features from the SD side and didn't bother to put them back on the HD side. Nice one, Uni. I'll pass.

[elkharteric]

Originally Posted by KillerCannabis

Not cool: the fact that they dropped all the bonus features from the SD side and didn't bother to put them back on the HD side. Nice one, Uni. I'll pass.

I was just going to say the same thing. It won't matter too much on "Dazed and Confused", but "Land of the Dead" had *all* of its extra features and entertaining featurettes on the SD side, and will lose them all (save for the audio commentary) on the HD only reissue.

I don't care too much for combos, either, but I would still take them over losing the extras on certain movies like this one.

[Arkadin]

(yawn).......






(btw: I'm happy they are re-releasing these as non-combos, but as an announcement by Universal that it's somehow part of a March "wave" of releases this news is simply pathetic imo.)

[GamerGuyX]

Ugh... these two movies are losing extras and they have that generic HD DVD menu/background/music Universal used to use.

[AllSport11]

Since I have been wanting to pick up Land of the Dead but the price of $34.99 has been too high and the fact that the re-issue is losing all the extras and is still $29.99 I will just pick up the Combo disc used somewhere for around $20.00 or so.

[Chemosh013]

Originally Posted by elkharteric

I was just going to say the same thing. It won't matter too much on "Dazed and Confused", but "Land of the Dead" had *all* of its extra features and entertaining featurettes on the SD side, and will lose them all (save for the audio commentary) on the HD only reissue.

I don't care too much for combos, either, but I would still take them over losing the extras on certain movies like this one.

Same here. Don't care about either of these movies but that's a piss poor move Universal. Releasing the extras as SD is bad enough but just dropping them completely!?!?

PS - Glad to see non combos i guess...

[typ44q]

Originally Posted by Chemosh013

Same here. Don't care about either of these movies but that's a piss poor move Universal. Releasing the extras as SD is bad enough but just dropping them completely!?!?

PS - Glad to see non combos i guess...

+1 I hate combos and try to avoid them as much as possible, hopefully they will fade away much like the hd-dvd/blu ray dual format combos

[ben1080p]

If its going to be 20 bucks on Amazon then I will be picking up Land of the Dead!

[Scarpad]

Glad I waited on Dazed and Confused

But Losing Features.. glad I've been buying blue when I have the choice

[HD-DVD_4_Me]

I love both of the movies and already own both on SD. I would glady have bought both but they were in combo, so I didn't. Now they have finally made a non-combo format and they screw us on the extras. The part that really pisses me off is that they will be on SL HD-DVD discs, so it's not like they don't have plenty of room for extras. If they are too freaking lazy to re-encode the disc and add extras I'll just skip it. Thanks for duping us Universal, I'll definitely skip buying these if they don't include the extras.

[hi-def-fanboy]

It's just lazy not to re encode these releases to contain the features of SD. How can HDM take off when studios don't do this. I thought that was the whole point of combo in the first place to cover people for when they got HD. Weak.

[freekedoutfish]

Yet we still get told that some films are still going to be HD DVD/DVD combos?Bah!!! For god sake univeral, make your minds up. Just stop with this dual format nonsense.

You just know they will still release films on HD DVD/DVD and not learn their lessons and then 6 months later re-release them.

If they really insist on putting a DVD side in there too, then just put a stand alone DVD in the damn box instead of sticking it to the bottom of the disc. It probably cost less.