Comic Reviews by Walt

So…The Walking Dead came out for home media today.

I’d debated awhile whether I wanted to get it as DVD or Blu-Ray, especially with the pricing being so comparable (and I think Best Buy most closely fought Amazon, matching the Amazon prices in their weekly ad).

Ultimately, I went with the DVD version.

And I have to give AMC EXTREME GRATITUDE for their stand-up way of releasing this.

See…virtually any and every other media release—movie, tv seasons, whatever—it seems that publishers feel the need to force one toward the Blu-Ray edition, to intentionally MAKE the DVD an INFERIOR PRODUCT.

They “stack” the blu-ray with EXCLUSIVE “extras” intentionally left off the DVD release; whether it’s brief featurettes, bonus episodes of something, or whatever…stuff that at the SAME resolution as the DVD content, would FIT EASILY onto the DVDs included in the DVD release.

AMC has put out the first season of The Walking Dead on both Blu-Ray and DVD.

But looking at the packages, I couldn’t find anything different between the two. The extras all looked to be the same. The two versions contain all 6 episodes. Even the box art is the same, except the Blu-Ray edition has that blue stripe at the top, and the cases are obviously the respective DVD or Blu-Ray size.

And given that…AMC has totally earned my respect all the more.

Let the formats speak for themselves. That’s ALL it should be about. FORMAT. Not the CONTENT.

I went with the DVD…but in this case…because I don’t know of any friends who have a blu-ray player, and if we get together to watch this as a group…DVD is virtually “universal.”

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