War of the Worlds (4K+2D Blu-ray SteelBook) [UK]

[paulboland]

Release date: June 14, 2021
Purchase link: Zavvi - HMV
Price: £25.99 - £29.99
Notes: Was previously a Zavvi exclusive

Spoiler

 

[Doctor]

4K release is 2 discs
UHD and Blu-ray

Disc 1: 4K Feature Film UHD

Disc 2: Blu-Ray Feature Film & Special Features

Revisiting The Invasion
The H.G. Wells Legacy
Steven Spielberg And The Original War Of The Worlds
Characters:The Family Unit
Previsualization
Production Diaries
Designing The Enemy
Tripods And Aliens
Scoring War Of The Worlds
We Are Not Alone
Galleries
Theatrical Teaser Trailer HD

Subtitle Languages:

4K: English / English SDH†/ Chinese-Cantonese-Hong Kong / Chinese-Mandarin-Simplified-PRC Chinese-Mandarin-Traditional-Taiwan / Czech / Danish / Dutch / Finnish / French / German / Greek / Hungarian / Italian / Japanese / Korean /Norwegian / Polish Portuguese-Brazilian / Romanian / Russian / Spanish / Spanish Latin American / Swedish / Thai

Blu-ray: English / English SDH† / Danish / Dutch / Finnish / French / German / Italian / Norwegian / Spanish / Swedish

And, according to Callum in Customer Services:

"I can confirm that the blu-ray is included so you should receive 2 discs. We're sorry for the miscommunication in our description."

I mean, if Customer Services is saying that, then it must be right, yes?

 

[paulboland]

And, according to Callum in Customer Services:

"I can confirm that the blu-ray is included so you should receive 2 discs. We're sorry for the miscommunication in our description."

I mean, if Customer Services is saying that, then it must be right, yes?

The UK 4K amaray and steelbook both are 2 disc releases includes 4K UHD and Blu-ray Discs

4K UHD disc has Film
Blu-ray has Film and extras

 

[IRON MAN]

@paulboland One more time for the people in the back.

 

[SampleX]

I still can't believe they think 4K reissues are actually worth this much money.

 

[Retro Parrot]

If it had an action shot or Tom cruise runnng on the front I’d be interested haha.

 

[SampleX]

If it had an action shot or Tom cruise runnng on the front I’d be interested haha.

I'd love to see a really worthy treatment of 'The Firm.'

 

[Doctor]

Charged. Was supposed to have been released today, so will be a bit late.

 

[cesarleeds]

Once somebody gets this one, please let us know if this is glossy finish with ultrahd logo on the spine, i´m saying this because the one just released in Spain is awfully matte and there is no logo on the spine, so a different steelbook from the one released in USA.

 

[Chemartin_1]

Same question as below

Once somebody gets this one, please let us know if this is glossy finish with ultrahd logo on the spine, i´m saying this because the one just released in Spain is awfully matte and there is no logo on the spine, so a different steelbook from the one released in USA.

 

[cesarleeds]

I´m seeing some steelbooks already listed on Ebay UK, shipping from there, i assume is the Zavvi one, which is exactly like the one we have in Spain.

Nothing to do with the Best Buy steelbook, unfortunately.

 

[Retro Parrot]

I would have bought this if it had the amaray slip art. With or without gloss. They just recycled the blu ray steelbook.

 

[djjez83]

I´m seeing some steelbooks already listed on Ebay UK, shipping from there, i assume is the Zavvi one, which is exactly like the one we have in Spain.

Nothing to do with the Best Buy steelbook, unfortunately.

It's gonna be matte with zero embossing that means

 

[Doctor]

Once somebody gets this one, please let us know if this is glossy finish with ultrahd logo on the spine, i´m saying this because the one just released in Spain is awfully matte and there is no logo on the spine, so a different steelbook from the one released in USA.

Received yesterday and I can confirm that it is indeed matte with no ultrahd logo on the spine ( the only difference on the spine to the previous Play.com release is the omission of the blu-ray logo).

Overall, I think this would normally be considered a fairly decent release, but unfortunately up against the original Play.com release means it's a bit disappointing overall (as we all suspected).

 

[5t33lb0y]

This and others similar to it aren't glossy. EU isn't getting glossy editions - USA is. So if anybody wanna have glossy one you'll have to buy US one.

 

[djjez83]

This and others similar to it aren't glossy. EU isn't getting glossy editions - USA is. So if anybody wanna have glossy one you'll have to buy US one.

Seems that way for majority of steelbook releases these days. It used to be the opposite

 

[paulboland]

No longer a Zavvi exclusive

This got a re-release with a price increase
Also available with HMV

 

[nekromantik]

wow not paying that much.
will get amray if the PQ is good lol