Hawk the Slayer Blu-ray & DVD Combo

Description

Hawk the Slayer Blu-ray & DVD Combo

Set Breakdown:

This set includes Hawk the Slayer has been cleaned, enhanced and mastered to 1080p HD. The DVD is in standard 480p.

The screenshots are taken from a 60″ LCD TV playing on a standard Blu-ray player. Set come with a interactive menu so you can easily navigate to each episode with chapter skips and a play all feature to play the whole disc.

Story:

Voltan infiltrates his father’s castle and demands the key to the ancient power but is denied. The wicked Voltan mortally wounds his own father when the latter refuses to turn over the magic of the “last elven mind stone”. As the old man lies dying, another son, Hawk, enters the castle, and is bequeathed a great sword with a pommel shaped like a human hand which attaches itself to the mind stone, creating the powerful “Mindsword”. The sword is now imbued with magical powers and can respond to Hawk’s mental commands. Hawk then vows to avenge his father by killing Voltan.

Voltan torments the whole countryside. Some time later a warrior, Ranulf, is struggling to run away from Voltan’s forces. Ranulf arrives at a remote convent. Ranulf tells the nuns that he survived Voltan’s attack on his village and his people, which resulted in the brutal deaths of women and children. Ranulf is seriously injured, losing his hand, and is nursed back to health by the nuns.

Voltan calls out to his wizard to stave off the pain he has in his wounded face. The wizard performs a spell on his face, telling him “your face will not pain you for a while” and “there is one who stands between us and the final victory; you will prepare the way to his death.”

Voltan appears at the convent, interrupting the nuns’ mass and kidnapping the Abbess, demanding a large sum of gold as a ransom. After Voltan and his henchmen leave with the Abbess, the nuns tell Ranulf to seek the High Abbot at the Fortress of Danesford.

Ranulf arrives at the fortress of Daneford. The High Abbot tells him to find the warrior called Hawk. The High Abbot gives Ranulf a token to give to Hawk when he finds him.

Hawk is traveling through the land and discovers Ranulf has been captured by brigands. Hawk rescues him and Ranulf convinces Hawk to rescue the Abbess.

Hawk locates his old friends: Gort, a giant who wields a war hammer; Crow, an elf who uses a bow; and Baldin, a dwarf skilled with a whip. The five warriors steal gold from a slave trader to pay the ransom.

Voltan’s son Drogo leads some men to the convent to collect the gold, but Hawk and his team fend them off. Later they attack Voltan’s camp and kill some more of his men before retreating. A nun insists they should just pay the ransom, but Hawk doubts that Voltan will free the Abbess even after the ransom is paid as Voltan had treacherously murdered Hawk’s wife, Eliane. The nun makes a deal with Voltan to drug Hawk’s team, which allows Voltan to capture them. A sorceress, another friend of Hawk’s, helps the heroes escape, but Baldin is mortally wounded as a result.

The heroes now attack the convent for the last time for Hawk to exact his revenge on Voltan; Crow is wounded and Ranulf is killed, Hawk battles his way to Voltan, taking down Voltan’s men mercilessly, until he confronts Voltan, who has managed to take Gort and the Abbess’s sisters prisoner. Hawk asks for them to be set free in exchange for Hawk becoming Voltan’s prisoner. Voltan agrees but Hawk manages to free Gort, and the two fight Voltan and his remaining men, killing them all.

Hawk and Gort head off to find new adventures leaving Crow to be tended to by the nuns. An evil wizard carries off Voltan’s body.

Playback breakdown:

Standard Blu-ray player: This has the highest playback of all options. I recommend this option if available to you – please make sure your Blu-ray player is fully updated for the best playback experience.

PlayStation 3: I have tested my sets on my PS3, I have a generation 1 FAT model with a firmware of 4.43 and it plays fine. Remember that playback of PS3 is determined by the version of the system and the update you’re on.

PlayStation 4: This has the highest playback of the PlayStation systems. Quality of playback is determined by the version of the system and the update you are currently on. Make sure your system is fully updated for the best playback.

Xbox One: Based on customers reports Xbox has the lowest playback of all game systems. There are some ways to improve playback by updating the system and making sure the Blu-ray app in the system has the newest update. Playback is determined by the version of the system and the update you’re on.

All of this information is based on customer reports and personal experience. I would urge you to go through my feedback to see other customers experiences with playback. Many customers have had great success playing these on game systems. I put this here to be open and honest with you so you can have the best experience possible.

Running these Blu-rays on a video game consoles could result in playback issues based on all the information above.

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