Help with The Thing

[andy b]

Hi all

Our local HMV is doing a trade & save on Blu Ray & 1 of the titles is The Thing, John Carpenter's film.

I have the original DVD which has a great selection of extras are these on the BLu Ray? the packaging does not give many clues except the audio by Russell & Carpenter.

Any help very appreciated

regards

Andy B

[AndyDursin]

Andy are you Down Under?

The US Blu-Ray is missing a lot of extras -- the full doc and some other things, which are chopped up and re-edited as picture-in-picture extras on a 25gb BD disc.

The European Blu-Ray, which I believe is the same one available in Australia, offers all the extras from the DVD in their proper, original form on a 50gb dual layer disc.

Transfer (which has a bit more noise reduction than the HD-DVD) and sound are the same on the two releases.

[andy b]

Thank you for the info, I will stick with my old copy for now.

By the way Andy, I from Canada.

regards
Andy B

[AndyDursin]

Sorry Andy!

Yeah the North American Blu-Ray is inferior to the HD-DVD and the European Blu Ray too.

If you ever import some discs from overseas, THE THING BD is worth it -- much better presentation.

[andy b]

Hi Andy

Thanks to your advice & Eric's I do get regular DVD from Europe, but not Blu Ray, as I have a North American player. Is the European Thing region free?

Still considering an all region player but not sure yet for Blu Ray.

Thanks for your advice

regards

Andy B

[AndyDursin]

THE THING BD from overseas is not region coded so it will play on any North American BD player

[andy b]

thank you for the information

Andy B

[AndyDursin]

You are welcome as always!