Have you been convinced to buy Game of Thrones: The Complete First Season on Blu-ray yet? Sill holding out? Well, this may change your mind. MTV has published a snippet of one of my favorite bits from the Blu-ray’s Complete Guide to Westeros: Charles Dance channeling Tywin Lannister to tell the history of House Lannister.
(Region-free video is courtesy SpoilerTV)
And if that isn’t enough, both Best Buy and Amazon
Screencaps from the House Lannister history video can be found on our tumblr.
Winter Is Coming: Charles Dance is awesome. That is all.
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33 Comments
Sigh..unable to watch in my region…silly Canada.
Elise TissandierQuote Reply
I’m betting HBO is going to sell a ton of these with dropping the price that low.
dizzy_34Quote Reply
lame i cannot watch it.
William Aaron GrandyQuote Reply
I think Tywin Lannister is the actor playing Charles Dance, perfect casting. Just ordered myths box set…
Ted furthmanQuote Reply
All of these videos find their way to youtube or spoilertv pretty quickly, so I’m sure you won’t have to wait long. In the mean time, here are a few screencaps of the faux stained-glass windows that go along with Tywin’s narration.
http://wicnet.tumblr.com/post/18083456115/stills-from-the-sneak-peak-of-the-house-lannister
Ours is the FuryQuote Reply
Ah, well … the EU branch of WiC.net will have to wait a bit :)
Hear Me RoarQuote Reply
dizzy_34,
Yeah, i wasn’t going to order it as I had it saved on my DVR. But for $35, a free keychain (bestbuy), the cool special covers (again bbuy), and the better picture that comes with blu-ray, i no longer can justify being a tightwad. I heart you world!
PeterQuote Reply
Thanks for the tip!
I just ordered the Blu Ray for season one and it only cost 28.00!
I got more money taken off because I used some rewards points from a credit card I have.
Woo hoo!
HollyoakQuote Reply
Can’t beat that price, just emptied my wallet on six (6) copies for friends and family.
HBO gotta love that.
tysnowQuote Reply
I was wondering how those shorts are going to look like. They will appear on non-region locked service soon enough, I’m certain of it.
Ivan PopićQuote Reply
Just ordered my copy of the bluray from Amazon.com even tho im in Canada.. Still cheaper than Amazon.ca by 20$.
Now i just need to buy a BluRay player lol.
Alex Kintner’s RaftQuote Reply
Same here on all counts!
LoFQuote Reply
$35 omg! yay for Amazon’s pre-order Price Guarantee! March 6th cannot be here soon enough!
JessQuote Reply
Please get us a region free video link already!
Jason DeltQuote Reply
idk if i can buy it and get somo kind of shipping directly to Chile via BestBuy, any of you know something about it?
CristianQuote Reply
Freakin’ awesome!
KGQuote Reply
Wow that pre-order price keeps going down! I have a question – I already pre-ordered at $45, now it’s down to $35. I know of Amazon’s pre-order price promise, but the new price is not updated in my ‘open orders.’ So I’m a bit concerned. I’ll still get the lower price, right?
Stumpy Oleg McNoLegsQuote Reply
Stumpy Oleg McNoLegs,
I looked into it, it said it should be updated within 24 hours of the price reduction, and if you get charged for the higher price they will refund your credit card for the difference once the pre-order ends and the item goes live.
LoFQuote Reply
I’m gonna upgrade to to the BR now. Same price as originally pre-ordered DVD. Just found a Panasonic BR player on Amazon for $60.
HexonxQuote Reply
Kind of semi-related but has everyone seen this yet?
http://http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones
Then a bunch of response to it from:
http://http://ihnatko.com/2012/02/20/heavy-hangs-the-bandwidth-that-torrents-the-crown/
http://http://badassdigest.com/2012/02/21/the-devins-advocate-pirates-are-huge-entitled-babies/
I mostly agree with the anti piracy stance but they seem to go off the rails regarding the “sense of entitlement”. As much as studios like to blame potential losses on piracy they also need to realize the huge global advertisement it freely offers. Windows overcame IBM’s OS through piracy and not by it being a superior product. The fact that GoT became such a global phenomenom is largely through piracy (as much as they’d hate to admit it).
Now I’m not advocating a pro-piracy stance, I tend to think however that those who have the ability to pirate anything falls under a minority. The baby boomer generation is still mostly computer illiterate. Using email and browsing youtube is one thing, being able to use the various method of piracy/keeping up with them definitely falls under the younger demo who sadly doesn’t watch tv live from home. So they might claim millions/billions of losses but in reality the sub base would hardly get touched from it, and it’s a demo that would be incredibly hard for them to reach (though the GO service is a nice direction).
Now factor in the ISP’s. I live in Canada and Rogers/Bell (the 2 giant providers up here) is intent on rimming up our butt when it comes to any premium service. Not only will HBO cost me a monthly fee but the providers will pocket a “middle man” fee by putting the channel either in a selective package or outright charging a fee. After going through similar problems regarding the unavailability of the show, do i feel sorry for getting it earlier? Not really. Is that because i feel entitled to the material? No, because i represent a small minority that really would not make or break HBO. The sad truth is most people will be buying the dvd/blue ray as it comes out (as i will), and until those studio clowns offer a proper restructuring of the industry (like how apple did with the record industry, and how netflix is trying the same) piracy will always be rampant especially outside the US.
DrfunkQuote Reply
Drfunk,
” Windows overcame IBM’s OS through piracy and not by it being a superior product.”
Wow – everything that you said after that whopper holds zero credibility.
aaddQuote Reply
aadd,
Of course there’s a lot of other factors that went into it, if you do a bit of research however, you’ll find that windows 3.1 really was not on par with the Os/2 at the time. In fact throughout asia (mainly in taiwan) a bizillion copies of windows 3.1 were pirated and it helped establish itself as “the” primary OS which helped grow microsoft into a software empire. Anyways, this isn’t the right place to debate about it but i stand by my opinion that they are making a big deal out of nothing and actually gain more than they care to admit.
DrfunkQuote Reply
For anyone that has not watched the video yet, I posted it at SpoilerTV since Viacom/ MTV seems to delete YT videos fairly quick.
http://www.spoilertv.com/2012/02/game-of-thrones-blu-ray-boxset-preview.html
darquemodeQuote Reply
He is right tho.
Piracy was one of the key elements of Microsofts success and its dominance over the PC world.
Regarding the topic of pirating GoT. Well, i am from Germany. There is no HBO, the (very poorly) translated version hit a very very small PayTV channel in November. The free TV version will come out at the end of March (most likely cut beyond recognition).
Of course i “pirated” it to see it. Do i feel bad about that? No, because i ordered the BluRay-Box last week. I am willing to pay for exceptional content, but they just dont get it how to distribute in the modern IT world. For me its been like this for years now, i got a lot of “pirated” copies of various movies and series, but i also got a pretty large collection of bought DVDs of exactly those movies/series i “pirated” before and that i liked. Often i have also seen the movie at the cinema before “pirating”.
I know lots of people like me, and i very much happen to think that i am in the vast majority of “pirates”. The simple truth is that “pirates” are also the industries best paying customers.
These industries life of the hype and the buzz their products create and “pirates” enhance and elevate these effects.
Of course there are those who will pirate everything no matter what and never pay for anything. But its also true that you will NEVER get those people to pay unless you force them to by making pirating impossible. And that will never happen, there wont be a system thats absolutely secure against pirating and wont cripple the legal product so much that it gets unappealing to the paying customers (like me).
Hello and GoodbyeQuote Reply
My experience from pre-ordering the books is that you get the cheapest price between the date you pre-ordered and actual publishing date but the price doesn’t update in your open orders until the publishing date.
Ivan PopićQuote Reply
I have to admit I’m a little disappointed at the reduced price… Game of THrones is worth way more than 35$…
calhawksQuote Reply
calhawks,
Ok that’s really stretching to find something to complain about. If your personal happiness derives from the arbitrary price of somethng you didn’t even create yourself, you need to get your head straight.
KGQuote Reply
Hello and Goodbye,
It looks a bit funny when you mention GoT airing on a small PayTV channel, seeing how that’s pretty much what HBO is. They might have millions of viewers but it’s pretty insignifiant to the total US population.
Personally I never try to justify that I’ve downloaded copyrighted matierial since the justifications never work. It’s still based in complete and utter selfishness and I don’t run from what I’ve done.
Tywin’s BastardQuote Reply
is it just on blu ray?
Abby Snuffleupagus GarrettQuote Reply
Chase Bank was giving me 5% off on Amazon but it is worth the few extra dollars to get the Stark cover at Best Buy.
DavidQuote Reply
Doesn’t sound like Charles Dance, we sure he did the voice-over for these bits?
NPOQuote Reply
Well, except that they aired it in November, which is half a year after the initial release on HBO + they aired a terrible localized version.
If i could get HBO here, i would (not just because of GoT).
Hello and GoodbyeQuote Reply
“Charles Dance is awesome. That is all.”
period.
Thiago SlashQuote Reply