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PinkoBastard posted:I love the Mill Creek Ultraman releases - they’re not perfect but they’re very good and it works for me Yeah but if you're like me and grew up watching them on multi-generation copies you found at conventions, the Mill Creek Blurays are a loving godsend.
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Here’s something: the Mill Creek Ultraman steel books are beautiful. I own a few of them. But I had to buy a bunch of blu ray cases to house the actual discs because the centre holder is so tight it’s almost impossible to pry a disc out… to the point that I thought I was going to shatter one of the discs. Also the fact that they’re stacked one on top of another, it’s just a bad design choice. The actual transfers are great and amazing and I love them, I just wish I didn’t have to buy my own cases for each series.
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PinkoBastard posted:Here’s something: the Mill Creek Ultraman steel books are beautiful. I own a few of them. But I had to buy a bunch of blu ray cases to house the actual discs because the centre holder is so tight it’s almost impossible to pry a disc out… to the point that I thought I was going to shatter one of the discs. Also the fact that they’re stacked one on top of another, it’s just a bad design choice. The actual transfers are great and amazing and I love them, I just wish I didn’t have to buy my own cases for each series. The weird thing is that the steelbooks were supposed to be a limited thing, with regular bluray cases coming after. They made the regular case versions, you can buy them. But then they decided to keep the steelbooks in print too
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Jan 31, 2023 06:00
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That’s my complaint with them as well. The content is great, if barebones, but the cases all suck.
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Jan 31, 2023 06:00
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Big Mean Jerk posted:That’s my complaint with them as well. The content is great, if barebones, but the cases all suck. I thought the rental slips were fun, and of the releases I have, they look good, but otherwise yeah, they're very bare bones. This is just a distribution deal though, so still no Aliens in 4k  Relevant Films at Home video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNuqVtwaKD8
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Jan 31, 2023 13:45
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It feels weird not buying my Mill Creek discs out of a 5 ft tall bin of movies at the hardware store though.
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Jan 31, 2023 14:43
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Big Mean Jerk posted:That’s my complaint with them as well. The content is great, if barebones, but the cases all suck. This. Somehow they have different versions of terrible design that are all as equally frustrating too. And the encodes are hit or miss. It makes sense that Disney in its half-rear end attempt to patronize the physical media crowd went with another half-rear end distributor.
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Jan 31, 2023 18:32
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PinkoBastard posted:I love the Mill Creek Ultraman releases - they’re not perfect but they’re very good and it works for me I'll never forgive them for starting out with those nice numbered steel books and then going, "Yeah, so, this next series is SD only, so we're just doing regular DVD cases from now on."
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Jan 31, 2023 19:19
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Biff Rockgroin posted:I'll never forgive them for starting out with those nice numbered steel books and then going, "Yeah, so, this next series is SD only, so we're just doing regular DVD cases from now on." Yeah, I'm a little mad that at some point, Mill Creek just gave up and went "eh, we're not doing Bluray releases for Ultraman anymore. You just get standard def DVDs now."
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Jan 31, 2023 21:06
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I got a beefy week of movies coming in from Amazon, VinSyn, eBay and our very own Big Mean Jerk. More stuff to keep me inside away from the freezing weather.
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Jan 31, 2023 21:17
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Lol Twitter beefs between physical media twitter accounts https://twitter.com/thediscfather/status/1620464070746075138?s=46&t=eWpc_9NDvYaQe1_LeYwDtw This dudes been going at Dawn for awhile now. Media strikes for advertisements  yeah buddy, WB will get right on making sure this account can’t shill their products anymore.It’s about ethics in physical media.
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Jan 31, 2023 21:28
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dorium posted:Lol Twitter beefs between physical media twitter accounts i mean, one account actually is useful and has legit info and sources, and one account straight up makes poo poo up..not surprised why they are trying to troll..just on brand
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Jan 31, 2023 21:45
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Just got 8 Vinegar Syndrome shipping notifications at once 
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Jan 31, 2023 22:09
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Speaking of Cool Hand Luke, it oughta get a Criterion
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Jan 31, 2023 22:40
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I'm still waiting for a 4K Criterion of Beastie Boys Video Anthology.
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Jan 31, 2023 23:38
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Ministry “In Case You Didn’t Feel Like Showing Up” 4K when?
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PinkoBastard posted:Ministry “In Case You Didn’t Feel Like Showing Up” 4K when? I’d be shocked if that wasn’t shot on video
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Biff Rockgroin posted:I'll never forgive them for starting out with those nice numbered steel books and then going, "Yeah, so, this next series is SD only, so we're just doing regular DVD cases from now on." VoodooXT posted:Yeah, I'm a little mad that at some point, Mill Creek just gave up and went "eh, we're not doing Bluray releases for Ultraman anymore. You just get standard def DVDs now." They were only licensed SD masters, it wasn't their choice. I suppose they could have done SD on Blu-ray, though that probably would have pissed people off even more. zer0spunk posted:This. Somehow they have different versions of terrible design that are all as equally frustrating too. Again, they use what they are given. Yell at the studios  Boinks posted:It feels weird not buying my Mill Creek discs out of a 5 ft tall bin of movies at the hardware store though. I was gonna post a Mill Creek blu I found last Summer in such a bin at Menard's, but then I figured I'd have fun with it.  Which one was $10 from Amazon, and which was $6 from Menard's?
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pwn posted:They were only licensed SD masters, it wasn't their choice. I looked into it after I made my post and apparently Mill Creek made the deal with Tsuburaya before Tsuburaya released the Blurays in Japan to avoid consumers importing them from the US since Blurays are expensive in Japan. And I don't blame them, I used to live there and Blurays were like $50 minimum 
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Way too easy, Gold Diggers $10 from Amazon, the Paper $6 at Menards
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VoodooXT posted:I looked into it after I made my post and apparently Mill Creek made the deal with Tsuburaya before Tsuburaya released the Blurays in Japan to avoid consumers importing them from the US since Blurays are expensive in Japan. And I don't blame them, I used to live there and Blurays were like $50 minimum Japanese Blu-ray and DVD distributors can get away with murder because online piracy is not as ubiquitous as it is in the United States.
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Edward Mass posted:Japanese Blu-ray and DVD distributors can get away with murder because online piracy is not as ubiquitous as it is in the United States. It was the same in the VHS and early DVD days too, before online piracy was a big thing.
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Edward Mass posted:Japanese Blu-ray and DVD distributors can get away with murder because online piracy is not as ubiquitous as it is in the United States. Any idea why this is the case? stricter laws?
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PinkoBastard posted:Any idea why this is the case? stricter laws? I don't think so - the UK is 8th in the world in piracy, despite their strict laws.
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Gripweed posted:It was the same in the VHS and early DVD days too, before online piracy was a big thing. Just gonna guess, I have no hard data at all to back this up. Don't most people in Japan, at least in the big cities, have very small flats? I'm not well-versed in this matter, VoodooXT may know more, but if that's the case, then someone has to be very choosy about what they own. This may be partially why miniatures are so popular there, you can have a bunch of neat little things that take up little space. So if someone actually has a disc player and TV, they're not going to have room for hundreds of titles, but probably a much smaller collection. This would mean that they are a de facto luxury, whatever their actual cost of manufacture is, and would be priced accordingly. Iron Crowned posted:Way too easy, Gold Diggers $10 from Amazon, the Paper $6 at Menards The Paper was from Amazon! Meanwhile I saw Golddiggers while getting some protest supplies and let the impulse warsh over me. I hope it's worth at least $6, whenever I do get around to watching it.
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Edward Mass posted:Japanese Blu-ray and DVD distributors can get away with murder because online piracy is not as ubiquitous as it is in the United States. I wouldn't exactly say that. Japan has a culture of rental shops whose sole purpose is for customers to rent media and copy them at home because media is just so drat expensive there.
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pwn posted:Just gonna guess, I have no hard data at all to back this up. Don't most people in Japan, at least in the big cities, have very small flats? I'm not well-versed in this matter, VoodooXT may know more, but if that's the case, then someone has to be very choosy about what they own. This may be partially why miniatures are so popular there, you can have a bunch of neat little things that take up little space. But books, especially manga, are cheaper. I’m going to bet it’s because of some kind of business fuckery, like the movie studios had a deal with video rental places or something like that.
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pwn posted:They were only licensed SD masters, it wasn't their choice. If you mean without upscaling, alas it’s against format spec to do that. Which is dumb, as having a single BD in place of 7 DVDs is far better imo. I think they thought it would confuse people at the beginning of the format (or possibly mean a batch of cheap underwhelming releases that wouldn’t sell the format well).
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Edward Mass posted:I'm still waiting for a 4K Criterion of Beastie Boys Video Anthology. All the Vileness Fats material shot on film would look incredible in 4K: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44NRtZspjJk
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pwn posted:They were only licensed SD masters, it wasn't their choice. Oh dang I had no idea The Paper had a release. That movie is pretty good. Def worth $6.
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Weird Al is possibly working on HD remasters of his music videos. He uploaded a raw scan of Eat It (4K scan of the 16mm negative) not long ago. On that note, I'd love to see a UHD release of a bunch of classic music videos. A bunch are on YouTube, but would be nice to have better compression and lossless audio.
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VoodooXT posted:I wouldn't exactly say that. Japan has a culture of rental shops whose sole purpose is for customers to rent media and copy them at home because media is just so drat expensive there. I never paid attention when it came to video, but I know when it came to CDs, back in the late 90's and early 00's, Japanese editions almost always had 2 or 3 B-sides that you couldn't find anywhere else. I assume it was specifically to drive sales from international collectors.
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New Vinegar Syndrome partner label releases for the month up for preorder: American Rapstar Amigo Deep Undead Eat Brains Love For the Plasma Foxhole GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows The Son of the Stars Thrust Who Done It?: The Clue Documentary Wild Reeds
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Bio Zombie is also great. Hopefully (the slip) is still available next week on payday.
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Dang, two great wrestling docs on one month. The rest of the partner labels don’t do much for me.
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dorium posted:Bio Zombie is also great. Hopefully (the slip) is still available next week on payday. I wouldn't sweat it, they still have slips for From Beyond.
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Also, they’re doing books now. https://vinegarsyndrome.com/pages/vinegar-syndrome-publishing
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Wrestling With Shadows is an instant buy for me, probably gonna get Bio Zombie too.
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abelwingnut posted:is son of the stars a kind of he-man knock off? I don't know, but I just blind bought it because I'm a sucker for that kind of animation.
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