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the names bond James Bond home I personally can't think of a better reason to invest at home theater tech than to watch a bond movie so it's kind of fitting than here at CES 2012 MGM in conjunction with Panasonic is announcing that all 22 bonds are now available on blu-ray it's also gave me the chance to catch up with three bond directors John Glenn Michael Apted and martin campbell to talk about the role of technology behind the camera and on the screen in the bond series message received we are waiting over and out working with a fifty-year 22 film franchise like double-oh-seven has availed these directors of the latest and the best technology some of their thoughts on where that's worked and hasn't been and now Michael Apted was director of the world is not enough in some ways I was always of the opinion still of the opinion that doing a bond you have to be very careful how you use technology we were still very much in the realm of you know creating real things and real special effects you know if you let the CGI get out of control as it has in there are other franchises probably for very good reasons I think bond is in a danger of losing that kind of poor reality martin campbell directed in to bond eras goldeneye with Pierce Brosnan and the most recent version of casino royale with daniel craig i never really cringe at anything when i look at blu ray because it's so fantastic when you see him come up you sort of there's always just a slight kind of gas or reaction of just how good how good it looks if you look at some of the old movies for example that was gone on blu-ray and stuff you'll see all sorts of like makeup limes you'll see you'll see map lines of the old sorts of things so just a little bit careful about that John Glenn directed five Bond films from for your eyes only two license to kill we're always trying to improve the quality of the image and with exactly our theory was that you know if it's if it's poorly photographed then when you when you to reproduce it if you make a dupe negative which you have to feel release prints then the quality goes down in ever decreasing curve whereas if the quality is great then it reproduces very well I think the blue rails obviously the thing the medium that's going to take over and you know good luck to it I think it reproduces our films very well and it shows the whole the whole picture that we photograph and it does justice to what we did or all the skills that went into it you