Alan Parsons Project - The Turn of a Friendly Card (Box Set in Feb 2023, standalone Blu-Ray in May)

[Marplot]

$40 cheaper than Amazon, pulled the trigger. Thanks for the link @GOS

 

[cbmmm3]

$40 cheaper than Amazon, pulled the trigger. Thanks for the link @GOS

ditto

thanks Gene

 

[J. PUPSTER]

- I think I'll roll the dice and wait a few more days to see if it drops anywhere else. Sure it's a gamble, I know!

 

[cbmmm3]

- I think I'll roll the dice and wait a few more days to see if it drops anywhere else. Sure it's a gamble, I know!

 

[birrrdy!]

Probably this has been posted, but the deluxe box is now cheaper than initially I believe.

$59 at importCD

https://www.importcds.com/alan-pars...1k6eb0ElmMveM_HHy37b5cDpvHYNkOMxoCN3YQAvD_BwE

Asking for refund for my $83 price for my 12/17 preorder. Will see what ImportCDs does with that…

 

[Imbobman]

Probably this has been posted, but the deluxe box is now cheaper than initially I believe.

$59 at importCD

https://www.importcds.com/alan-pars...1k6eb0ElmMveM_HHy37b5cDpvHYNkOMxoCN3YQAvD_BwE

I'm tempted to buy at this price..... So what do you all think the price will be of the stand alone BD of this when it comes out??

 

[cbmmm3]

Asking for refund for my $83 price for my 12/17 preorder. Will see what ImportCDs does with that…

I suggest you cancel the order and do a new order to get the good price

 

[GOS]

I'm tempted to buy at this price..... So what do you all think the price will be of the stand alone BD of this when it comes out??

Hard to say, but I suspect some will have it for $22-25ish.

 

[barfle]

Hard to say, but I suspect some will have it for $22-25ish.

And that’s when I’ll buy.

 

[birrrdy!]

The standalone blu ray is being released in May

How do we know about the standalone blu ray being released for sure? I must've missed that one.

 

[Imbobman]

How do we know about the standalone blu ray being released for sure? I must've missed that one.

I'm quite sure it's talked about within this thread here. Go back & read thru it.

 

[GOS]

This is the post about the standalone BDA.

https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/fo...ly-card-box-set-in-feb-2023.31504/post-667999

 

[riskylogic]

Hard to say, but I suspect some will have it for $22-25ish.

The thing is, I'd rather have the lone bluray than the box. If they were both $40, then I'd save $5 shipping by getting the one disc.

 

[birrrdy!]

This is the post about the standalone BDA.

https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/fo...ly-card-box-set-in-feb-2023.31504/post-667999

Thanks so much. Very helpful!

 

[birrrdy!]

I'm quite sure it's talked about within this thread here. Go back & read thru it.

And, duh, I missed like 30 posts on this thread. LOL, sorry about that!

Although when I went back to links from that earlier post, I didn't see any active confirmation on the stand alone bluray, and watched the whole video which didn't call it out in the voice-over (although I may have missed a written caption). The CherryRed link provided is no longer active, and the site only seems to mention the full box set when I tried searching for everything on Parsons there... Maybe they pulled the reference down because it was killing sales and causing too many cancellations? I hope it doesn't change the outcome or, again, I am just missing something.

 

[Bill B]

The thing is, I'd rather have the lone bluray than the box. If they were both $40, then I'd save $5 shipping by getting the one disc.

I agree. Sometimes I just don't want all that extra crap. Not that it isn't cool it's just that I have enough stuff around that just gathers dust after the first look.

 

[mutant_matt]

This all raises an interesting question though: would you put up with a less-than-optimal surround format if it saved you from buying a big box set full of stuff you don’t want or need?
In my case, I think the answer is…yes

There is a third option - don't buy it at all if it's not important enough to you... I'm in this camp for TOAFC (unless it gets a standalone BluRay release, which it looks like is now indeed planned to happen).

I've previously bought all the AP stand alone BluRays and am waiting for iRobot - THAT is one of my favourite all time albums, THAT I wuould buy the boxset just for the hi-res multi-channel, but not the others (Try Anything Once, perhaps).

Having said that, I did also buy The Secret, which was only available on DVD, and therefore no lossless multi-channel hi-res, and as that was the only available format, I'm still glad I got it. I guess I'm both agreeing and disagreeing with you all at once...

TLDR - it depends...

 

[mutant_matt]

I agree. Sometimes I just don't want all that extra crap. Not that it isn't cool it's just that I have enough stuff around that just gathers dust after the first look.

Very much this!

 

[panamac]

I'm tempted to buy at this price..... So what do you all think the price will be of the stand alone BD of this when it comes out??

I'm waiting for the stand alone, one disc of surround, or better yet ATMOS, please....

 

[madscot]

I'm waiting for the stand alone, one disc of surround, or better yet ATMOS, please....

I don’t think AP has the setup for atmos, it will be 5.1 DTS-HD MA like the others