Aristo! Aristo! A la lanterne!: The whole Godfather set, on BluRay... $18!

Saturday, January 26, 2013

The whole Godfather set, on BluRay... $18!

One day deal on Amazon.... and yes, I ordered one. Since I have been watching their daily deals, my movie collection has been growing steadily.
Linkies:

The Godfather Collection (The Coppola Restoration) [Blu-ray]

2 comments:

Old NFO said...: I have the original set somewhere or the other... And have never gone down the BluRay trail... :-); January 26, 2013 at 1:14 PM
Bryn said...: Our film collection is quite large, but has been collected by patience over the years (waiting for the 2nd hand price to drop below £1.00 max) with quite a few costing less than two shillings plus postage.

Stage Two involves being ruthless about space saving. The DVD (no Blu-Ray here either) gets "processed" on to a disk share on my Home Server; the DVD goes into storage in a 200 disc DJ case; and the DVD case goes to recycling.

Viewing is simple - cheap-ish media players plugged into HD monitors or TVs in the relevant rooms, fed by Cat6 from the server - and no scrabbling around for one disc in over a thousand, its all sorted & indexed.

I own all the originals so there are no piracy issues, and if a copy becomes corrupted (rare) I just re-process it.; January 27, 2013 at 4:55 PM

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