| ![Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (30th Anniversary Ultimate Edition) [Blu-ray] [1977]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51IEuSZMRfL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Francois Truffaut
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: £24.99
Buy New: £9.00
You Save: £15.99 (64%)
New (18) Used (6) Collectible (1) from £9.00
Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 1410
Format: Box Set, Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: Blu-ray
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 132
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 5.5 x 1
EAN: 5050629650112
ASIN: B000TYV3DA
Theatrical Release Date: 1977
Release Date: December 3, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: NEW & SEALED - Brand New.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Well worth the encounter... June 20, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The film, everyone has seen, but to see the original theatrical version just showed how good the first edit really was. The transfer to Blu-ray is very good and is basically worth it just for that, but to have all three versions, it's something of a bargain.
 What is the point?! June 17, 2008
0 out of 56 found this review helpful
What's the point of having this on blu-ray? It's really old, and boring! So slooow to move along in plot its slower than a snail!
Best Blu-ray film package so far? June 5, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm a recent convert to Blu-ray, but so far have been a little disapointed with the film catalogue available, as the technology has been available for a couple of years now. However, this disc is an exception to that problem.
To start with, there's not much that needs to be said about the film itself that hasn't already been said, and most people must have seen a version or two by now, so I'll concentrate on the BR release.
To start with this is better value than most BR releases to date price-wise, and the main film disc is well presented and neatly put together. The animated menus are stylish, easy to use & neat. But what is a bigger surprise is just how much you get for your money. The package includes all 3 versions of Close Encounters, and all 3 are seamlessly put together on one disc. Also, you can select a menu which highlights every minute difference between all 3 while you watch, for real Close Encounter buffs.
The biggest shock of all is the second disc though. Normaly the extras tend to be a little cut-price on Blu-Ray, with a cheaper SD DVD second disc. So I was a little shocked to find the extras disc seems to be full HD BR too, running at 1080 (for me). Not only that, but for very lucky people with a better HD television, this release is recorded at very high-def 1920*1080. I'n not even sure if my PS3 can handle that resolution, but my TV certainly can't. No matter though as picture and sound are generaly good, but to be fair the film shows it's age slightly in darker night shots, with a little graining sometimes.
But overall, even without the cheaper price, this is easily the best value BR release I have seen to date. I just hope we can get more releases of this quality, and soon.
Great Film - great value for all three versions and the surround - Wow March 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A great film we all know but now available to watch at the highest possible quality. All three versions in one box for a great sub 20 too. However, THIS is what surround sound systems were made for. My subwoofer nearly took off in the scene where RD is reading the map in his truck near the beginning and the UFO flys over. Absolute class.
A Closer Encounter March 22, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
As the price of Blu Ray movies are still far too high, it was nice to see that my all time fav. movie CE3K is now at a more realistic pocket friendly price. What a lot you get,the packaging is wonderful as are all three versions of this classic. The only slight disappointment is that the special features disc is not also in high def. The three documentaries are wonderfully insightful. I can't believe that after thirty years of worshiping this movie I never 'got' that the little grey alien at the end of the film was doing an exchange programme with the Dreyfuss character. The new sharper quality versions of the film were like meeting an old girlfriend with a makeover and falling in love all over again. I already have this movie in every form available in the past but this is easily the best version you could ever own. A timeless classic of great beauty which you must simply own now!
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