Customer Reviews

Essential Holiday Collection (The Polar Express / National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation / Elf / A Christmas Story) [Blu-ray]

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One of these days I'm going to remember to stay away from bundled movie sets as the picture quality often seems to be lower with them. I already had each of the excellent titles in this bundle, but in DVD format. I thought it would be nice to updgade to blu ray. Last night I sat down and compared each blue ray disk in this bundle with my original dvd (upconverting of course.)

Each blu ray disk in this set does indeed look better than my older upconverted dvd disks. The colors are better and the images have more detail. That being said, all of the disks in the Christmas bundle lack the "wow" factor of some other blu ray titles (e.g. How the West was Won, The Wild Bunch, Nightmare Before Christmas, 2001: A Space Odyssey, etc.) These disks do not stand out in image quality, and given the hefty price tag, that is somewhat disappointing.

To make a long story short, this set is worth buying if you DO NOT own the movies already. If you do, it may be worth just upconverting your standard DVDs. Maybe when the titles are released individually on blu ray, they will contain more impressive picture quality.

On a more positive note, at least Warner Brothers did away with the annoying animated menus.

Conversion quality is questionable, but it still exceeds the quality of upconverted DVD. Packaging with slim cases makes storing the set convenient and unobtrusive. A good tradition investment.

If you look forward to Christmas and viewing Christmas movies, this set is a must have. This set is four of the best Christmas movies ever made. Recommend this set for any family, you won't regret it. Enjoy!

I'm a huge advocate of bluray vs dvd. I've seen these movies a bunch of times but it's like seeing them all for the first time again on bluray.

So far we've watched 3 of the 4 movies in this collection: Polar Express had a great picture but the sound was so low we had to turn up the surround sound receiver to over half (usually run about a quarter way up) to even hear the soundtrack. Christmas Vacation had an OK picture but not much better than the DVD. Christmas Story was very grainy in parts, especially the dark scenes. Sound was mostly in mono, not surround.

We've yet to watch Elf and hoping the blu-ray copy is better than the other 3. Although these are some of our favorite Christmas movies, the move to blu-ray so far has been a waste of money since we already had these movies on DVD with almost as good a picture and definitely better sound. I'm wondering if the individual packages would have been better blu-ray transfers. If not, why do they even bother to release in blu-ray if there's really no improvement over DVD?

I ordered this Holiday movies late in the season very close to Christmas, I found a great price and the shipping was fast.

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We have a 52" HD tv and Blu Ray player so we needed an upgrade to our favorite Christmas movies. Great collection!

All 4 videos in this collection were great, especially in BluRay. The cost was fantastic.

The Polar Express was amazing on Blu-ray. Great buy for all 4 movies. Highly Recommend for any home theater collection.

This is a great deal for Christmas blu rays! The picture qualit is good compared to other blu rays. It is cheaper than buying 3 of the movies separate. I recommend!