Posted Tue Oct 15, 2024 at 06:46 AM PDT by Matthew Hartman
Just in time for Thanksgiving, Universal Studios Home Entertainment in partnership with Paramount Home Entertainment and Warner Brothers Home Entertainment will deliver six of Hitchcock's best in a deluxe book set. Rear Window, To Catch A Thief, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, and The Birds will be housed together on 4K UHD for the first time.
A year in physical media releases wouldn't be complete without another Hitchcock set to drool over. This time we're getting a little bit of everything. Rather than rehash the discs they've already delivered in 2160p with HDR, Universal smartly partnered up with Paramount and Warner Brothers to give fans of Hitchcock a taste of his most famous works in a deluxe coffee table-style book. Think along the lines of what Universal dropped for their Universal Monsters Collection, with articles and essays for each film along with the discs themselves. Now, by the time this set reaches shelves, all of these films will have been released in single-title, or box set form - and it doesn't look like we're getting anything "new" in that arena. If you're buying Warner Bros. upcoming North by Northwest or already have picked up Paramount's new 4K of To Catch a Thief then you've got everything on disc this set will have to offer.
However, if you haven't picked these up yet, this is a stylish piece to consider for the shelf!
and here's a full glory shot:
Now for the guts of the set, here's what you can expect to find on each disc:
REAR WINDOW (1954):
Layers: BD 100
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 1.66:1 Widescreen
Rating: PG
Subtitles: English SDH, French Canadian, and Latin Spanish
Languages/Sound: English (DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0), French European (DTS Digital Surround 2.0 Mono), Latin Spanish (DTS Digital Surround 2.0 Mono)
Run Time: 01:55:00
Bonus Features:
TO CATCH A THIEF (1955):
Layers: BD 66
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 1.85:1 Widescreen
Rating: PG
Subtitles: English SDH, English, and French
Languages/Sound: English (Dolby TrueHD 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
Run Time: 01:46:00
Bonus Features:
VERTIGO (1958):
Layers: BD 100
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 1.85:1 Widescreen
Rating: PG
Subtitles: English SDH, French Canadian, and Latin Spanish
Languages/Sound: English (DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0), English (DTS: X Master Audio), French European (DTS Digital Surround 2.0 Mono), Latin Spanish (DTS Digital Surround 2.0 Mono)
Run Time: 02:09:00
Bonus Features:
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959):
Layers: BD 66
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 1.78:1 Widescreen
Rating: Not Rated
Subtitles: English SDH, Parisian French, and Latin Spanish
Languages/Sound: English (Dolby Atmos TrueHD), English (2.0 DTS-HDMA), Parisian French, Latin Spanish
Run Time: 02:16:00
Bonus Features:
PSYCHO (1960):
Layers: BD 100
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 1.85:1 Widescreen
Rating: R
Subtitles: English SDH, French Canadian, and Latin Spanish
Languages/Sound: English (DTS:X Master Audio), English (DTS Digital Surround 2.0 Mono), French Canadian (DTS Digital Surround 2.0 Mono), Latin Spanish (DTS Digital Surround 2.0 Mono)
Run Time: 01:49:00
Bonus Features:
THE BIRDS (1963):
Layers: BD 100
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 1.85:1 Widescreen
Rating: PG-13
Subtitles: English SDH, Brazilian Portuguese, French Canadian, Japanese and Latin Spanish
Languages/Sound: English (DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0), Brazilian Portuguese (DTS Digital Surround 2.0 Mono), French European (DTS Digital Surround 2.0 Mono), Japanese (DTS Digital Surround 2.0 Mono), Latin Spanish (DTS Digital Surround 2.0 Mono)
Run Time: 02:00:00
Bonus Features:
And that's all the news that's fit to print. As of this writing, we haven't seen this set go up for pre-order, but as soon as it does, we'll update listings ASAP.
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