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There is much discussion elsewhere on each of these films in terms of plot summary, meaning, and value so I won't get into that. My reviews are strictly regarding the transfer from Standard Definition to Blu Ray for all 3 films. Surprising to me is that the transfers are pretty much even across the board from film to film. You will find that my reviews for all 3 become pretty much redundant. The Shining displays a beautiful video transfer with natural colorizations showing off Kubrick's wonderful lens craft and cinematography. There was no unnatural grain, artifacts or aliasing to be found. The video transfer was exceptionally done. The film begins to play as soon as you put the disc in and the audio defaults to a lossy DD 5.1 . You will need to go to the menu to switch the audio to PCM 5.1 lossless audio. It does make a big difference. However, the audio transfer really only uses the front stage and there is very little use of any discreet audio to either the rear channels or from the LFE channel. The front stereo separation is good but, except for the film's music score, this is still a dialogue driven film so don't expect much from your surround system. The video transfer remains the star. The movie is getting on in years but it holds up and has legs, wish they had put as much effort into remastering the audio as they did with the fine video transfer. 2001: Space Odyssey.....Again, this disc shows off an excellent video transfer as well. No grain that I could detect and no problems with any of the video transfer. It is clear to me that they put some time in remastering the video before the reformat to Blu Ray. Once again, the audio ( PCM lossless 5.1) is left in the corner with almost no use whatsoever of the surround channels or LFE channel. The wonderfully classic soundtrack is evenly spread across your front channels with good separation but the LFE and discreet channels are left by the wayside. Remember to go to the menu as it defaults to DD 5.1 lossy. While this film was groundbreaking in its time and many went to see it stoned out of their gourd in '69, I don't feel as if the film holds up. It did feel dated to me. No hate mail please. A Clockwork Orange....I warned that there would be some redundancy. The video transfer is excellent all around. No issues on the video transfer at all. Very well done. The audio transfer defaults, like the others, to DD5.1 so going right away to the menu to change it to PCM 5.1 is necessary. The audio levels are all well balanced, as they were with the other two movies, but, once again, the front stage is used primarily for the soundtrack which provided a clear separation of instrumentations. However, there is no use of the rear channels for any discreet foley FX and almost nothing from the LFE channel. This film is still as powerful as when it was first release and will probably remain so for many decades to come. All 3 Blu Ray discs come with plenty of supplementary extras and all come with a large variety of language choices. The extras, I found to be worthwhile and interesting..most dated at 2007. None of the discs, all packaged separately (2 of them on back to back plastic holders) contained any deleted scenes but, thankfully, there were no advertisement trailers for other movies either. For me personally, I am glad to have this set, especially so because of The Shining and Clockwork Orange. All my movie reviews are of this nature and focus only on the quality of the transfer to BluRay so check them and see if they are of help as well. Hopefully, this review has been of some help to you in determining your purchase, hope I am on the correct path with a review of the transfer quality as opposed to providing plot summaries. Thanks