Rifftrax Live! Reefer Madness & House on Haunted Hill Blu-rays $11.99 Each @ Amazon

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Rifftrax Live! Reefer Madness & House on Haunted Hill Blu-rays $11.99 Each @ Amazon.

I think these are just $2 more than the "non-live" DVDs cost on Rifftrax.com. I don't know if this is really a "deal" but the MSRP is $16.95 and I just wanted to spread the word on these pre-orders. I've seen Rifftrax Live in theaters and just the movie tickets cost $10 a piece.

The release date is May 17th, 2011. Specs and supplements have yet to be revealed.

Reefer Madness
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B004Y2SDR2/panandscathed-20

House on Haunted Hill
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B004Y2SDPO/panandscathed-20



Thanks goes to Highdefdigest.com :bouncy:
http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/s...House_on_Haunted_Hill_Blu-rays_Announced/6808
 
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[quote name='DeskLaser']You would think they would be able to fit both of these onto one bluray disc instead of two.[/QUOTE]

I completely agree. I think this all the time. People subconsciously think they are getting more for their money if there are more discs. The people publishing DVDs and blu-rays know this and use it to their advantage.

I'm just speculating here, but I think this is what I think. They could probably squeeze every episode of Seinfeld, or The Sopranos, or Sex and the City, etc. in Standard def onto 1 or 2 fifty gigabyte blu ray discs. But people will pay $100+ for the Seinfeld series on 40+ dvd discs. I don't know if people would pay $100+ for 1 or 2 blu ray discs. Customers think they are getting more value because it's on 40+ discs instead of 1 disc using blu-ray technology. Just my 2 cents.

Anyway sorry for the rant. I think it's great to support these Rifftrax guys by buying their stuff. Hopefully they get a huge percentage out of the Amazon sales because god knows they deserve it. They're the best.
 
If you want to pick up the live shows, listen to the Grocery Witch (you'll understand once you watch the Haunted Hill one) and pick up the BD over the DVD.
 
[quote name='SonictheHedgehog1337']
I'm just speculating here, but I think this is what I think. They could probably squeeze every episode of Seinfeld, or The Sopranos, or Sex and the City, etc. in Standard def onto 1 or 2 fifty gigabyte blu ray discs. But people will pay $100+ for the Seinfeld series on 40+ dvd discs. I don't know if people would pay $100+ for 1 or 2 blu ray discs. Customers think they are getting more value because it's on 40+ discs instead of 1 disc using blu-ray technology. Just my 2 cents.
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You are completely wrong.

All those shows would require as many Blu-ray Discs as their DVD counterparts. Blu-ray is for high definition, not standard definition, and all of those shows were shot in high definition (and indeed, they've all already been broadcast on TV in HD).

A dual layer Blu-ray has six times the capacity of a dual layer DVD. 1080p is six times the resolution of standard definition. High definition requires six times the bitrate that standard definition requires in order to look good.

It all scales just about perfectly. 6 is the magic number here.
 
I saw the Reefer Madness rifftrax in theaters live when they performed it, it was hilarious. Their Plan 9 live rifftrax is my favorite still, but this is definitely the best way to watch the original Reefer Madness. Highly highly recommended.

For those that aren't aware, this is the second cast from MST3K, now called Rifftrax. They do MST3K treatments for modern movies and old public-domain stuff. It's all golden.

www.rifftrax.com
 
[quote name='Xizer']You are completely wrong.[/QUOTE]

Well, he's half wrong. I get what he's saying, and you're right in what you say as well. He's implying that the shows are standard def, I'm guessing. I'm pretty sure Seinfeld wasn't in HD, since it shows up bordered on the HD channels in syndication around here, but the HBO shows were most definately HD. His theory would be kinda true for older shows. However, if you're buying stuff on Blu-Ray, do you really want to settle for piss-poor compression on the audio/video just to cram as much as you can on a single disc? I guess it's possible to put a lot of episodes, but they will look like ass. To me, I expect more from my Blu's.

On topic, Rifftrax are fucking awesome. I'll look into some of these. I own the Star Wars Christmas Special and Night of the Living Dead and they were fantastic. Been meaning to try out some more.
 
What he is talking about is for a show that will only ever be in SD, especially for shows that were animated in SD like most of Futurama (before the movies), etc, that will NEVER be in HD, is you compile all of those onto as few bluray discs as you can. So instead of having to buy multiple DVD volumes, you can just buy the one bluray disc instead.
 
[quote name='Xizer']You are completely wrong.

All those shows would require as many Blu-ray Discs as their DVD counterparts. Blu-ray is for high definition, not standard definition, and all of those shows were shot in high definition (and indeed, they've all already been broadcast on TV in HD).

A dual layer Blu-ray has six times the capacity of a dual layer DVD. 1080p is six times the resolution of standard definition. High definition requires six times the bitrate that standard definition requires in order to look good.

It all scales just about perfectly. 6 is the magic number here.[/QUOTE]

Blu ray was originally just a data storage format. It's been successfully marketed to be synonymous with "high-def." You can squeeze a lot of standard def data onto a 50gb disc.

Someone mentioned they could fit both of these rifftrax films onto one disc and I was just taking it a step further. Why would companies want to fit more than they have to onto one disc when they can make more money off multiple discs? That's all I'm saying.

If you put a blu ray burner into your computer and download a "MST3K complete series" torrent, it would fit onto 3 blu ray discs. The quality is poor, but you get what I'm saying. LOL think about all the copyrights a company would need to gather for those three discs. Each disc would be cost a consumer $500 a piece. haha.
 
As for Seinfeld, it's been converted (successfully) into HD due to the fact that it was shot on film (as most American TV shows always have...), and not only on film, but 35mm stock (the same size that most movies use) so it looks pretty darn good.

I don't know which stations you have, but the local Fox affiliate in Milwaukee tends to show Seinfeld in HD at least once or twice every weekday.
 
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