New Bond SE Collection packaging?

[John Hodson]

This from the HTF:

Go to this website and click the enter site link at the bottom right:

http://www.neuronsyndicate.com/

It appears as though they are a design company responsible for such box sets as the recent Alien Quadrilogy, etc.

Anyways, wait for the page to load and don't tough a thing...

You'll see a flash clip bounce back and forth between the recent Alien DVD collection, Bend It Like Beckham, a car ad, and what appears to be a damn cool looking 007 box set!!"

Like the Star Wars box package shot doing the rounds, this looks like several potential candidates for a new Bond box - pity I lost interest when Connery quit the franchise!

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[ryonhilluk]

It looks quite good as well.

[kohlbek]

I read somewhere recently that MGM had put the current James Bond DVDs on moratorium from 31st Jan 2003. So I guess current stocks will disappear soon. Supposed to be 2005 before the series is repackaged.

I bought a couple of 1960s Bonds recently - going cheap at CD-Wow.HK but TBH it's now a struggle for me to get enthusiastic about Bond movies - probably because I've seen them too many times on TV over the last 30 years.

[thescrounger]

Originally posted by John Hodson


- pity I lost interest when Connery quit the franchise!




Blimey, you must be quite old!

[John Hodson]

Originally posted by thescrounger
Blimey, you must be quite old!

Quite. :|

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[PhilSmith]

If you go to their portfolio section and click on "James Bond", you'll see a few more pictures of it (all of which look like concept renders). It's named as "James Bond 40th Anniversary DVD Collection". Looks pretty ridiculous to me; I mean, where would anyone put it? :)

[kohlbek]

Sounds like it might have been a recent concept proposal that wasn't eventually used.

[cm-9]

The main problem for me is that most Bond DVDs, even the most recent ones from the 1990s, have lacklustre transfers, also for most of the films pre-Octopussy the film stock itself has not aged well and/or the original colour timing was not that great. They would all surely benefit from a high quality digital restoration and remastering, with DD5.1 and DTS remixes. Presumably if this were done then they would sell in very large numbers as even existing owners of the DVDs would be forced to upgrade.

[Rik Booth]

I own the collection on DVD, all 20 films in a nice tin box. Sorted. :)

[rubber duck]

I own the them all on R2 uk dvd so I wont be buying them again, any time soon. I might replace my cut Goldeneye and Tomorrow Never Dies discs with R2 French editions though.

Not really a huge bond fan any more. If Goldeneye came out in DTS I would have to buy it though. :)

[Tony Soprano]

I bought all the R2 DVD's as well. Big Bond fan but I dont think I'll get them again.

[John Hodson]

Originally posted by kohlbek
Sounds like it might have been a recent concept proposal that wasn't eventually used.

From thedigitalbits.com:

"A lot of you have been asking us about a James Bond: 40th Anniversary DVD Collection from MGM, various packaging designs for which appear on the Neuron Syndicate wesbite. We honestly have no idea what this might be. Keep in mind that the 40th anniversary of the film series would have been 2002, so it's likely that this was just a mock-up for a product that was never actually released. Just FYI."

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