GiggityGoo said:

US listings have started to appear, and we now also have an image of the back of the release, confirming that there are no new extras.

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Also: no extras in 4K, so those speculating the music videos would have been upgraded to 4K were wrong (as expected).

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No Dolby Vision, no Dolby Atmos.

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https://www.gruv.com/prod...tra_hd_uhd

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https://www.walmart.com/i...5463540741

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https://www.amazon.com/Pu...B0D3884H68

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Interesting that the estate never really released an official video of "Purple Rain" (the song, hence the """ thingies),

but there is an official video of the song included here on this bluray.

Is that exclusive?

nayroo2002 said:

Interesting that the estate never really released an official video of "Purple Rain" (the song, hence the """ thingies),

but there is an official video of the song included here on this bluray.

Is that exclusive?

It was also included on the previous DVD/Bluray releases.
There are topics on here about the differences between the movie version and the so called videoclip version and the versions for other countries (difference in sound effects or extra sounds and things)

Things to note:

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- No Blu-ray in the USA release. Which means USA buyers need to hang on to previous Blu-rays to have all the extras.

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- The UK Blu-ray release only contains some of the extras if the listings are to be believed, which would mean it is a new Blu-ray, and thus possibly contains a new encode of the movie based on the new restoration done for the 4K. (But this is all speculation.)

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- It seems we're getting a DTH-HD Master Audio 2.0 audio track, so that would mean we're finally getting the original stereo audio from the movie!

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- The 4K UHD spec apparently doesn't allow for 480i content, so it remains unclear how the extras (music videos etc.) which are in SD will be included. Perhaps they got upscaled to 1080p using AI (like the latest Syracuse release)?

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All in all, however disppointing it is we're not getting deleted scenes etc., this release could offer some good reasons for upgrading (new restoration, original stereo audio). But there is still too much unknown; it would be nice if we finally get some details from Warners WRT what we're actually going to get.

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And then of course it's still to be seen whether there are no technical fuck-ups, e.g. a stereo track that's merely a downmix of the 5.1 track, or a bad restoration job etc. Major companies have in recent years far too often dropped the ball on 4K releases -- Paramount in particular has some absolute turkeys (Planes, Trains And Automobiles being a prime example), but Warners also has had to offer replacements for almost every Rocky 4K release due to technical snafus.

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But not getting deleted scenes etc. is a major bummer. IMHO this was the last chance to get these. I don't see Warners re-releasing PR with new extras in the future.

bizzie said:

- The UK Blu-ray release only contains some of the extras if the listings are to be believed, which would mean it is a new Blu-ray, and thus possibly contains a new encode of the movie based on the new restoration done for the 4K. (But this is all speculation.)

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this is probably only for the listings. I ;ve seen more UK release listing that didn't include all the extras but they were on the eventual release.

Some off topic news that could maybe mean something: it seems that WMG is in the proces in taking down fotage of the First Avenue 83 show from youtube and are claiming ownership of it, so maybe this could mean they are releasing it soon?

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Neversin said:

JorisE73 said:

bizzie said:

RODSERLING said:

JorisE73 said:

same here, except for Rodeserling and his bullshit facts. You forgot to mention his BS about the units sold in Europe of The Truth for RSD and his BS claims that RSD is only a USA thing and isn't something that's organised in the rest of the world That guy lives under a rock or something.

Said the guy who claim that back in 2020 he knew that Diamonds and Love was to be released in late 2023...Except that the whole Lovesymbol section is still unreleased, so it s your own BS fact.

Still lying and making things up, I didn't say anything yuo are lying about again.
Like I said if you knew the timeline from my posts from 2020 onward regarding D&L/D&P SDE you wouldn't be laugfhed at by people here who do know and did follow the timeline and what I posted during it.

JorisE73 said:

RODSERLING said:

JorisE73 said:

Still lying and making things up, I didn't say anything yuo are lying about again.
Like I said if you knew the timeline from my posts from 2020 onward regarding D&L/D&P SDE you wouldn't be laugfhed at by people here who do know and did follow the timeline and what I posted during it.

Back then, everybody knew about the D&Love project. It was no secret here and elsewhere. That doesn't deserve an award. But, What nobody knew back hen, was the release date. What every reasonable person knew back then, was that it was impossible to release a boxset comprising BOTH D&P and Love Symbol. Telling otherwise is just pure BS. Same thing with the PR SDE It goes back to even 2017 when the 1st avenue show was announced. Still unreleased. We know for years something is gonna happen with it. It was obvious they were gonna missing the anniversary date. There are still some orgers here believing it will happen, though. Now, at last, some contents about that future SDE and release date have been leaked.

yeah sure it was so impossible to release D&L that they alreay had multiple tracklists for it and the tracklists were shared back then to some. The releae date changed and every time it changed update posts were made about it. And guess who posted the info that it was split up and it was already listed as D&P SDE (all info from a regular WB source who is just doing his job, but it seems people have forgotten what his job is or even know what a Record Store is)so you can call it bullshit but I'd rather trust veriefied info from a official source (that you call bullshit) then specualtions from you.
You keep hammering on some anniversary date that nobody mentioned except you, the people who do know already had a (potential) release date (that still stands) since last october from the same official source relayed by myself.
So like I said if you don't know the timeline with D&L/D&P SDE and now PR SDE and what was posted during it then why keep making up things to suit your narative that is full of holes??

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Discuss the thread topic:

Purple Rain 4K UHD Blu-ray

Variety articel on the 4K release:


Prince's 'Purple Rain' to...riety.com)

It's on Amazon in the US for preorder, release date is December 31, 2024.

Tech specs! And these are great!
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https://thedigitalbits.co...51424-1400
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Note that Purple Rain has been digitally restored from a new 8K scan of the original camera negative, and “conformed to the original theatrical release aspect ratio of 1.85:1 to provide the most authentic theatrical presentation framing ever to be released to the home.” Look for HDR10 high dynamic range only.

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Sound has been restored “from the original Dolby Stereo (LCRS) archived 35mm magnetic film source elements containing the separate dialogue, music, and effects (DME) tracks. These restored elements along with the 20th anniversary’s 5.1 multi-channel print master were used to complete a newly remastered 5.1 presentation for the film.”

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Release date is 25 June (or thereabouts).

TrivialPursuit said:

It's on Amazon in the US for preorder, release date is December 31, 2024.

Amazon usually uses 31 Decemebr as a placeholder date if they don't have the official date

Note that if you want to have the 5.1 mix made for the 20th anniversary DVD, you'll need to hang on to the 2016 Blu-ray (which had this in lossless DTS-HD MA 5.1) or even the 2007 Blu-ray (Dolby Digital or lossless Dolby TrueHD).

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It is still unclear whether the original stereo mix will be on this 4K UHD.

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If you're in the USA: hold on to the 2016 Blu-ray to get all the bonus features. The 4K UHD release does not contain them all, though it does contain more music videos.

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It is still unclear how the bonus features, which were originally produced in SD, will be included on the UHD, given that the format apparently doesn't allow for SD content. Will they have been upscaled to 1080p?

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it is unclear whether the UK release will contain a new Blu-ray, and whether it will feature a new encode based on the restoration done for the 4K release. And whether this new Blu-ray will be available in the USA.

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If you do not have a 4K UHD Blu-ray player, the move will also be availablein 4K Ultra HD for purchase Digitally from Amazon Prime Video, AppleTV, Google Play, Fandango at Home and more.

JorisE73 said:

TrivialPursuit said:

It's on Amazon in the US for preorder, release date is December 31, 2024.

Amazon usually uses 31 Decemebr as a placeholder date if they don't have the official date

Well it's funny you mention that. I was just chit-chatting w/ the roommate about it last night, and he said, "that's a weird date. Could just be a place holder." Sorta rang true in my mind. I agreed it likely is a placeholder.

I don't pay that much attention to preorder stuff 99% of the time, so it's still sorta new territory to me. In fact, the only preorder I've done lately is a new Barefoot Contessa book coming in October. haha

Umm, paging "ELITE" collectors.

I think now would be the right time to leak the full rough cut/assemblage of PR. We've given Prince and WB more than enough chance to do it. It's time to put them on notice.

Also, the full workprint of UTCM. We know it's "out there" because a snippet of the intro leaked after the Purple homie's passing.

In the annals of Prince history, you will be regarding as heroes.

Many thanks.