widescreen transfer at 1080p, once again using the VC-1 codec, and once again it’s a very nice transfer, clear and sharp throughout, with rich colours, fine detail, great contrast, and the requisite layer of film grain that remind you that films were once made using actual film, and not just on hard drives. The CG effects also blend in seamlessly, and Dobby and Kreacher in particular have never looked so tangible and part of the action. But it really is Harry, Ron and Hermione for much of the film with just the odd interlude to see what Voldemort is up to. Unlike the first five discs, this is really a disc for the world, offering the English audio in Dolby True-HD 5. Not when Voldemort and his Death Eaters are gaining in power, sowing fear and panic through the wizarding world, and disrupting the Muggle world too.

Home Entertainment's Tenet topped both the Blu-ray-only and overall packaged media charts for the third week in a row. Harry keeps attracting trouble though, and in between fending off his nemesis Malfoy and learning to fly a Hippogriff, he learns an uncomfortable truth about Sirius Black. He has Ron and Hermione’s help of course; it will be harder than anything they’ve had to do before, especially with the Death Eaters hunting them down.I went to the cinema for the first three films, and eagerly pounced on the DVDs, and that’s when the experience went sour. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The flow of the story is natural, well paced, and feels concise, not at all piecemeal or bitty as in the first two films.

Bloomsbury, Scholastic, or any of the individuals or companies associated with producing and publishing Harry Potter books and films. It’s a story that lends itself to a simple narrative, and functionally, it doesn’t really matter that the film takes place over a whole school year, or in the space of days. I have to say that to my ears it actually sounds better than the Dolby TrueHD efforts that came previously, I was wholly impressed with the quality, clarity, and power of the surround audio, the niftiness of the sound design, the impact of the action sequences and the well-balanced audibility of the dialogue. Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone with a complimentary commemorative Limited Edition Remembrall™ enamel pin from the Harry Potter Fan Club Pin Seeking collection. Fortunately there is a new Defence Against The Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts and Professor Lupin is concerned for Harry`s welfare.widescreen 1080p VC-1 transfer, which looks pretty stunning for the most part, clear and sharp, good contrast and rich with detail. This limited edition numbered box set contains 19 discs - each film comes on both Blu-ray and DVD and there are three additional Blu-ray discs containing over 5 hours of extra content.

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Home Entertainment's Tenet topped both the Blu-ray-only and overall packaged media charts for the fifth time in six weeks of release. It’s pared down to beyond the bare minimum to tell Harry’s story in this film, and the film really only works for those who have the knowledge of the book to help place the scenes in context. He really should have paid attention to the ill omen though, as it isn’t long before the World Cup is marred by worrisome unrest from a menace thought long forgotten, and it soon becomes apparent that Harry Potter’s fourth year at Hogwarts is only going to get worse. As I opined about Prisoner of Azkaban, here the films really do become plot driven, and there’s no room for anything extraneous. Audio Descriptive English track for visually impaired viewers, and optional English subtitles plus English HOH subtitles too.

Surround Spanish, Catalan, Czech, and Slovakian, with subtitles in those languages plus Arabic, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish, and it’s all good, the dialogue remaining clear throughout, with the music and the action represented well by the surround treatment. Like all of the books adapted to film to this point, year-long stories told in a space of two hours, the narrative is always going to be piecemeal, the passage of time variable, but the other films to this point managed to find what was essential in the story and craft a film around that. 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 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. That didn’t happen with The Philosopher’s Stone, as it plays out just like the book, albeit with a few bits left out for time. The actual narrative that we do see on screen is held together by this movie trickery, but it still feels like a Cliff Notes version of the story. The music for the film is supplied by Alexandre Desplat, but for the first time since The Chamber of Secrets it really felt cohesively like a John Williams score.