Top 10 Favorite DigiBooks in My Collection
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- Опубликовано: 4 авг 2024
- What's up, collectors! Today I'm talking about one of my favorite forms of physical media packaging, the DigiBook. Here are my ten favorites with a few honorable mentions thrown in. Hope you enjoy the video!
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King Kong is my favorite movie (and digibook) of all time closely followed by the Hitchcock collection. Excellent video!😊 Nobody talks about digibooks anymore.
Right? I don’t hear anybody talk about them anymore. I wish we got more of them these days.
Digibooks will always hold a special place in my heart. Particularly getting into blu-ray collecting around 2010-2011.
WB’s digibook for Batman (1989) was one of first I ever bought (from Barnes & Noble, no less!) and it actually had excerpts from Sam Hamm’s script. Believe it or not, those were the pages I learned screenplay format from. Before I had a laptop, I would write my scripts in pencil on notebook paper, and I would consult those pages for scene headings, transitions, dialogue tags, and more. Good memories ☺️
And great video, DJ!
Hi, DJ! Sorry for the ridiculously late response, but thanks for the shout out to my favorite film of all time, Meet Me in St. Louis. However, the film actually starts in the summer with the Halloween sequence coming later. Also, I'm looking forward to hearing what you think of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington when you finally see it (hopefully sooner rather than later). It was on my "most want to see" list until some friends and I were able to rent it and watch it in our dorm at Ball State back in the mid-80s. I think you'll love it. See you tonight.
Love the videos, man. Keep it up!!!
Very informative video. Never heard the term Digi-book before. Digi-packs, yes, but not books. At first, I didn't think I had any digi-books in my collection, but I remember I had THE PRINCESS BRIDE and I think the GODZILLA set be considered as a digi-book.
Amazing video. Thank you so much. Love your shelves too.
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed the video
Digibooks are the best for physical media & I'd rather have them over steelbooks any day. I think Warner and Columbia had the best releases. Some of my favorites are Se7en, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Meet Me In Saint Louis, The Musicals 4 movie collection, An Affair to Remember and Labyrinth. I would really like to find Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, You Can't Take It With You and Lost Horizon.
Great picks. Thanks for letting me know about the Musicals set. I didn't know about that one. I really want to grab the other two Capra books as well.
Love and miss Digibooks! Nice collection! The Willy Wonka Digibook is one of my favorites too!
The Willy Wonka one is so nice. I wish mine was in better shape. I found that at a used store years and years ago.
My mother loves meet me in St. Louis!!!
She has good taste, sir.
I wouldn’t be able to trust someone who didn’t like Meet Me in St. Louis!
Oh I need that special effects set!!That looks amazing!
Yeah it’s such a cool set. Mighty Joe Young and Them! are a ton of fun and must-owns in my opinion.
Excellent choices, DJ, many of which I have in my own library. Love those classic Warner Digibooks! Foreign releases are a slippery slope, I’ve been collecting the Hammer horror series-36 and counting-from Anolis in Germany and it’s painful as there are *multiple* alternate covers of original poster art for each release (though I try to keep it to just one per movie unless it’s a particular favorite 😅).
Whoa, I haven’t heard of those. Thanks for sharing. I’m kinda scared to look them up though 😅
WB created the blu ray digibook and their first release was Bonnie and Clyde. Their second digibook release was Dirty Harry. I have about 30 digibooks. IMO, Some of the best looking are the 20th Century Fox digibooks. Their digibooks do not have the distracting blu ray banner on the front and have nice artwork on the front and back covers. The books also have a glossy finish. They have a pocket that holds the disc. I read that that was because WB had a patent on the disc holder and would not allow FOX to use that design. Some examples of the FOX digibooks are The Hustler, Cleopatra, All About Eve.
Great video DJ, these look great! I just picked up a digibook for X from germany and it looks great
Thanks man. Germany kills it with their mediabooks. There’s one for The Whale that I’d really like to get at some point.
@@FilmsByColor I still got to see that movie, I love Brandon Frazier
Thanks for the video! Really liked that Hulk Digibook 👍
Highly recommend, checking out Vinegar Syndrome’s Cinematographe line of Digbooks. They are some of the best I’ve ever seen I’ve been collecting them highly recommend them. they have a very similar feel to Criterion Princess Bride, and they come with a hard cover, slipcase crazy packaging
Do you know if the Little Darlings set is still in print? I looked it up on the VS site, but I couldn’t tell if it was the digiBook or the standard. Their wasn’t a drop-down to select a version.
Loved this video. I have a relative few compared to yours (probably because of my preference for Steelbooks) but in addition to The Princess Bride and Meet Me in St. Louis, I have a very nice digibook of Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet. Princess Bride and Hamlet especially lend themselves to the digibook format. In addition, my beloved Criterion box sets of Fellini and Agnés Varda are both digi-album (is that a thing?) formats. Large sleeved, large boxes that are more like a photo albums. They’re both very nice.
I like the term album. I don't have the Fellini or Varda box sets yet, but I'm hoping to get them someday. They look incredible.
Oh, they are. I’m grateful I’m more choosy about box sets of this size because I don’t really have a ton of time to watch every single title in these sets right away. So they need to be collections I love already as it takes a real long time to watch.
Excellent video, and I very much appreciate your infectious enthusiasm. Always wanted to pick up the Universal Monsters set, but the 4K editions have always given me pause as to which path to choose.
Personal favorite Digibooks (which I much prefer over steelbooks: not my thing) are the Criterion Godzilla set and my old Jaws edition.
Speaking of Criterion, when is your next Criterion Corner with Connor scheduled? Always enjoy those.
I miss doing Criterion Corner. None scheduled yet, but I'm trying to figure out a way to bring those back. Thanks for asking! I really appreciate the interest.
If you want an individual film release recommendation.
I know that the recent All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) remake has a really nice digibook release that is floating out there.
Also great film, but I’m pretty sure you’ve already seen it and know that it’s great.
Thanks for sharing. Interesting list for sure. May I suggest you check out "Cinématographe" sub label from Vinegar Syndrome? They are releasing some decent 60s - 90s films in glorious Digi book format. These have a spine number and also a serial number as well. I have the first two releases in my collection and the other two in pre-order.
Thanks for the recommendation! Those look amazing. I'm definitely ordering the Little Darlings set. Unfortunately the Red Rock West set is Sold Out. Let me know if you know anyone who's trying to sell it, haha.
Can you do a video on like your Superhero movies collection?
Sure, that'd be a fun one. I'll add that to the shortlist. Thanks!
The Man of Steel, Wonder Woman, Aquaman Lenticular digipacks only came in Blu-ray edition correct? Were there ever 4k versions of those??
I just checked eBay and found an Aquaman one that was 4K. Not sure if they ever did one for Man of Steel or Wonder Woman. Mine are all blu-rays
@@FilmsByColor thanks I appreciate that
I miss the target DC digi-books.
Apparently they kept doing them a lot longer than I realized. I just saw one for The Flash on eBay.
@@FilmsByColor I think the format was changed or maybe not region 1. They did a special one but I thought it was just what target Marvel special editions had switched too - changeable pics.
This first Hitchcock box is great! The others, not so good.
You don’t like the movies in the other sets? Or do you mean the transfers aren’t good?
@@FilmsByColor Hello, DJ! I mean the majority of great Hitchcock films are in the first set. The others are mixed with average films (like The Trouble with Harry or The Man who Knew too much) and really bad ones, as Topaz or Family Plot. I got the stand alone 4k release of Rope!