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Product Name: Pride and Prejudice (2 Disc) (Blu-ray Disc)
UPC: 031398181972
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
High resolution version of an old favorite
This version of P & P was first produced in 1995 as six one-hour long installments and it has been previously released on VHS and DVD. The Blu-ray version went back to the original negatives and the detail in the video is remarkable (so much better than you could ever imagine if you have seen either of the previous releases). If you like this production the Blu-ray version is well worth getting. I would have liked it more if they had not retained the six 'episodes' format and had made it more continuous. It would have been possible to just have a single break between the two discs.
Whenever a book is adapted for a movie something in the book is inevitably lost. There are generally two approaches that can be followed - either try to be as close as possible to the book or to just use the story in the book as a basis for a somewhat new creation. I have seen four filmed versions of P & P and I find none of them to be completely satisfactory to me (I am looking for closeness to the book). This version, being the longest, has the best chance to approach the book. The acting and filming are generally good and a few of the extras are interesting - but self-congratulary. The are just a few small artifacts resulting from generating the high resolution images from the original negatives but these are very minor and of no consequence.
The video quality is definitely superior to the dvd purchased so long ago. I was disappointed in the credits being put back in after every episode - the dvd was continuous with no credits until the end. Overall though, a small inconvenience for better quality.
