Amazon's Blu-ray Gold Box Deal of the Day affects the Pirates of the Caribbean: Four Movie Collection. Walt Disney Home Entertainment's box set includes the following four entries in this popular adventure franchise:
The Gold Box deal presents the bundle at a 55% markdown from its SRP of $169.99; the Blu-rays are remastered in 1080p and carry 5.1 LPCM and 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio tracks alongside many special features, such as behind-the-scenes featurettes and multiple audio commentaries on the four films.
Through today only, Amazon is offering the Pirates of the Caribbean: Four Movie Collection for $76.49.
Talk about bad timing for this one to go on sale...it should've been on sale at least a week ago. I'm sure some people bought this one as a Christmas present for someone...I know I did.
1080P remastering, 7.1 DTS-HD MA audio, and digital copies are too compelling to pass up; had to break down and get this set from Amazon's Gold Box Deal: $76.49.
Recent buyers of this set report the treasure chest is plastic and durable, but the coin container storing the discs is made of card stock paper (like the flimsy Toy Story collection toy chest), and not likely to hold up for very long.
Nonetheless, the technical features alone warrant enough reason to sell my current individual copies for this set.
Probably will never use the 3D discs, though. Today's 3D is just a modern iteration of the stereoscopy technology introduced in 1915 (patented in the 1890s) and is simply recycled from the '50s. As TV manufacturers (and James Cameron with his Avatar movie) needed to figure out a way to survive the global economic downturn, they shrewdly revived the old 3D tech to sell new TV sets with slick relentless marketing campaigns to create "don't wanna miss out" trends.
I'm not buying into 3D until the TV mfrs produce TV sets that display in 3D without requiring glasses. Viewing movies through costly glasses is limiting and absurd. Both Hitachi and Sony have been working on stereo-pair single view displays (At the 2011 Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies show in Japan, Hitachi showed a 3D projection system that didn't require viewer glasses), so eventually, glassless 3D TV will arrive, ironically due in part to funding by current 3D TV sales revenues from the 'gotta have it now' crowd.
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