Generally The Philosopher’s Stone gets a decent transfer, with adequate detail levels, wonderfully rich colours, particularly in the magic world, and the organic feel of film, natural grain and even the rare fleck of dirt on the print. I was expecting to be hit with the usual instant Blu-ray upgrade sense of wonder as I usually get with Blu-rays, before starting to pick nits, but not this time, as the foggy start to The Philosopher’s Stone became indicative of one of the transfer’s weaknesses, and it wasn’t until daylight at the Dursleys that I saw the detail, colour definition, and pop that I was expecting. Picture: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone Harry Potter gets a 2.35:1 widescreen transfer using the VC-1 codec. Oh well, I thought, I’d watch the rest of the films in cinema, and buy them all as a boxset when it was done and dusted, all around the same time I fell out of love with the cinema experience, the small screens, the idiotic prices, the other people. ![]() The first two movies came out in collectable digipack form, but then Warner Brothers went and released Prisoner of Azkaban in a standard Amaray, and suddenly the symmetry of my shelving was thwarted. I went to the cinema for the first three films, and eagerly pounced on the DVDs, and that’s when the experience went sour. I loved the way the books were written, growing up with their target audiences fantastic, colourful children’s stories for The Philosopher’s Stone, and full on angsty teen fiction by the time Deathly Hallows came around. ![]() When Harry Potter learns on his eleventh birthday that he is is, in fact, a wizard, he is quickly swept up into the spellbinding world of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry alongside new best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.Introduction I was into Harry Potter mania when the first film came out, prompted to go back and pick up the books that all the cool business-folk on the daily commute were reading, and then being there front and centre for when the final three books were released.
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