The only Howl's I see on Amazon is the Japanese import. Am I missing something?
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# ? Feb 1, 2013 00:51 |
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# ? May 27, 2024 02:36 |
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My bad, Howl isn't out. I got it confused with Whisper. When Poppy Hill comes out on BD later in the year, we'll hopefully see another wave of Ghibli movies. Harlock fucked around with this message at 01:24 on Feb 1, 2013 |
# ? Feb 1, 2013 01:20 |
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Though not Miyazaki, I spotted Grave of the Fireflies last week. http://www.amazon.com/Grave-Firefli...f+the+fireflies
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# ? Feb 1, 2013 01:46 |
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bowmore posted:I would like to get Howl's Moving Castle but it's $38 on Blu-Ray which is insane. Where?? It's like $60 on Amazon.
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# ? Feb 1, 2013 02:12 |
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It looks like Cohen Media Group is striking out on its own instead of releasing through Kino Lorber. They bought the Raymond Rohauer library, which consisted of a lot of silents and some sound films. Anything in that library would be noted as "Licensed from Douris UK" which re-formed into Cohen. The good news is that they already have a ton of high quality releases in the pipeline. The Thief of Bagdad was already announced with a new 2K restoration and Carl Davis' orchestral score. They also list a bunch of other films... The General (Buster Keaton) - New 4K digital restoration from a new positive from the camera negative (!) Intolerance (D.W. Griffith) - New 4K digital restoration with Carl Davis' orchestral score Hangmen Also Die! (Fritz Lang) - New 2K digital restoration Jamaica Inn (Alfred Hitchcock) - New restoration The press release also mentions a lot of other films by Keaton, Griffith, Harry Langdon, Douglas Fairbanks, and Rudolph Valentino. They seem to be comitted to only high quality scans from prime 35mm elements with quality orchestral scores.
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# ? Feb 1, 2013 02:38 |
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Never mind all that. Why isn't everyone more excited for the upcoming Criterion Collection release of Repo Man?
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# ? Feb 1, 2013 02:47 |
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CPL593H posted:Never mind all that. Why isn't everyone more excited for the upcoming Criterion Collection release of Repo Man? I am super excited. I recently picked up Repo Chick for $5 at Frys, and wow it's pretty bad and borderline unwatchable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eThZr9If_I8
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# ? Feb 1, 2013 04:16 |
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Red posted:Where?? It's like $60 on Amazon.
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# ? Feb 1, 2013 10:13 |
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The awesome Lawrence Of Arabia: Collector's Edition dropped down to $45.49 on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0017O1MIM...FJ9CQ1379AW1Y49 quote:3 Blu-ray discs (3rd disc exclusive to the gift set) featuring: - edit And a bunch of other deals. Chicago/Crash/The English Patient/No Country For Old Men/Shakespeare In Love - $19.99 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00664ALN0...Y4SFE60NTK4B4Y9 Shame - $17.99 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006OB3K56...JVAAN90YS0DPMCR $10.49 each Annie Hall http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006FSRSFQ...ACW805JJNQHQ1MS Hanna And Her Sisters http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009UTX4M8...JRMHN3B7GTTYYZ8 Manhattan http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006FSRSTC...638DR41S2ZESCMD Never Let Me Go http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004EQAVFU...62YK8SQV8TKYBEP Notorious http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0065N6K9Q...MQ6RNWHERES77Z0 Rebecca http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0065N6JSI...0K1N9GKDA305NPV Spellbound http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0065N6KNW...SS2JVHH2368CYEJ Wall Street (Re-release) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008C2GVUG...SX3SPW931X0PAXN $10.99 each The French Connection (Re-release) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008YAPRPG...VJTM00G4BPM7DEB The Poseidon Adventure http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007RFJCN2...HZF6G4X8E5Z20Z4 $13.99 each Biutiful http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0041KKYFG...EDKB7J47CYH68E6 How Green Was My Valley http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A7OBJKY...XEDY4PF8EDE8ADK Patton (Re-release) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009A87ZKG...59J5X8YS3H9PTYV $14.49 each Delicacy http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008H1Q3YG...PRWWKT3C0KQ43NT The Grapes Of Wrath http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007PM218K...1S6FDPFXG90P7Q2 Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 10:47 on Feb 1, 2013 |
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Harlock posted:My bad, Howl isn't out. I got it confused with Whisper. I'm guessing Howl's will come out along with (most likely) Totoro and maybe even Tales from Earthsea. I think those have all been out in Japan for over a year.
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# ? Feb 1, 2013 16:06 |
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Odd - is ... this a legitimate release?
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# ? Feb 1, 2013 16:19 |
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A bunch of Ghibli movies have been released in other regions like Australia that we haven't received in the states yet. They look to be region locked: http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Howls-Moving-Castle-Blu-ray/39647/
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# ? Feb 1, 2013 16:52 |
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I try to keep up with this thread so forgive me if it's been posted, but I think it hasn't: Dark Star has finally been released in the US. http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Star-The...=I16YMSODNMKEVZ I love this movie and am buying it immediately. I know a bunch of you love it too.
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# ? Feb 1, 2013 19:23 |
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Red posted:Odd - is ... this a legitimate release? Madman's probably the best 'niche' film distributor in Australia, it's legitimate.
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# ? Feb 2, 2013 06:50 |
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I'm interested/curious about putting a Blu-ray drive into my PC. I have a PS3, but space is limited, and I'd like to have one device that can literally do everything. From what I read it seems like this is terrible idea, or at least a costly pain in the rear end. Is there any particular reason that it's so difficult to play Blu-rays on a PC?
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# ? Feb 4, 2013 05:23 |
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dog nougat posted:I'm interested/curious about putting a Blu-ray drive into my PC. I have a PS3, but space is limited, and I'd like to have one device that can literally do everything. From what I read it seems like this is terrible idea, or at least a costly pain in the rear end. Is there any particular reason that it's so difficult to play Blu-rays on a PC? Drives are mostly expensive and the software is total rear end. Someone here can give some firsthand experience, but it comes down to a lot of the software don't even perform efficiently and you pay quite a bit for it.
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# ? Feb 4, 2013 05:27 |
dog nougat posted:I'm interested/curious about putting a Blu-ray drive into my PC. I have a PS3, but space is limited, and I'd like to have one device that can literally do everything. From what I read it seems like this is terrible idea, or at least a costly pain in the rear end. Is there any particular reason that it's so difficult to play Blu-rays on a PC? The software needed to play blus on PC, such as PowerDVD, updates quite often (yearly?) and you have to pay for each iterative upgrade. Not upgrading means that some blu-rays will no longer play, which happened to me with Redline and a few other movies.
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# ? Feb 4, 2013 05:28 |
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Weird. Is there some reason that blu-ray playback functionality hasn't been included with PC's yet? It seems like the tech has been around a while and is fairly mature. Is it really just because there's such small interest in it?
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# ? Feb 4, 2013 05:33 |
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dog nougat posted:I'm interested/curious about putting a Blu-ray drive into my PC. I have a PS3, but space is limited, and I'd like to have one device that can literally do everything. From what I read it seems like this is terrible idea, or at least a costly pain in the rear end. Is there any particular reason that it's so difficult to play Blu-rays on a PC? Sporadic posted:Yeah, Blu-Ray on PC loving stinks. You need to purchase $300+ of software on top of the cost of the drive to get the best setup. If you don't have AnyDVDHD, new discs come out and they don't work right away either from new DRM or the software needing an update. Dickbag software makers have their products on crazy update schedules so you'll soon find yourself a version or two behind which no longer gets support (spend $50+ on an upgrade!) As to why. I think most of it can be sourced back to DRM and licensing costs. The 800-lb gorilla in the room, Microsoft, doesn't care to pay all the licensing fees for something 99% of people don't have. 99% of people don't have it because it's expensive and easy to run into DRM issues (oh you have a second monitor hooked up? none of your movies will play) I also think it's fair to say that Microsoft is still a bit sore over HD-DVD losing the format war. quote:In an attempt to avoid a costly format war, the Blu-ray Disc Association and DVD Forum started to negotiate a compromise in early 2005. One of the issues was that Blu-ray's supporters wanted to use a Java-based platform for interactivity (BD-J), while the DVD Forum was promoting Microsoft's "iHD" (which became HDi). A much larger issue, though, was the physical formats of the discs themselves; the Blu-ray Disc Association's member companies did not want to risk losing billions of dollars in royalties as they had done with standard DVD. An agreement seemed close, but negotiations proceeded slowly.
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# ? Feb 4, 2013 05:43 |
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I bought a Samsung external USB blu ray drive and it works great. Just get AnyDVD. So far it's let me play stuff without a lot of fuss. Good alternative to PowerDVD is arcsoft Total Media Theater. It's not a clunky piece of poo poo like PowerDVD.
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# ? Feb 4, 2013 07:04 |
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Was there ever a blu-ray release of The Warriors that contained the original unruined version of the movie?
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# ? Feb 4, 2013 08:28 |
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dog nougat posted:Weird. Is there some reason that blu-ray playback functionality hasn't been included with PC's yet? It seems like the tech has been around a while and is fairly mature. Is it really just because there's such small interest in it? it's a chicken-egg scenario and a lot of the big players behind pushing DVD in PCs want everyone to go digital (Apple et all).
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# ? Feb 4, 2013 14:40 |
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I use VLC media player + AnyDVD HD on Win7 x64 with a Pioneer drive. Pros and Cons: +by default the main movie file plays straight away +most recent BluRay I played was Dark Knight Rises -I cannot use the disc menus because the disc won't start if I leave the "No Disc Menus" option is unchecked -no disc menus means I have to access extras (making of videos, etc..) and video options (subtitles, etc...) with the VLC options (not really a huge problem but not good for a computer illiterate person) -hardware acceleration is disabled because the the occasional disc stutters if it is left on (although video quality seems fine with it off) -Individual episodes for TV shows seem to be stitched together back to back into the main movie file -I cannot access overlay menus None of these problems are show stoppers but if you are setting it up for a family member/friend who is clueless around computers get a BluRay player. I can vouch for Panasonic BDT220, got that for my mum, very capable piece of kit.
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# ? Feb 4, 2013 15:25 |
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CPL593H posted:Was there ever a blu-ray release of The Warriors that contained the original unruined version of the movie? I don't believe so.
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# ? Feb 4, 2013 15:35 |
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There's always MakeMKV, which will pull the BR video into an MKV file which you can watch with whatever. It makes huge files, though.
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# ? Feb 4, 2013 17:40 |
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CPL593H posted:Was there ever a blu-ray release of The Warriors that contained the original unruined version of the movie? Sadly not, though I was surprised to see that Netflix has the unaltered version in HD and it looks very nice too.
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# ? Feb 4, 2013 21:02 |
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DrVenkman posted:Sadly not, though I was surprised to see that Netflix has the unaltered version in HD and it looks very nice too. It also seems to be up for Amazon Prime members.
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# ? Feb 4, 2013 21:08 |
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DrVenkman posted:Sadly not, though I was surprised to see that Netflix has the unaltered version in HD and it looks very nice too. This makes it even worse that it's not offered on blu-ray.
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# ? Feb 4, 2013 22:33 |
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Thants for the replies, so it seems like I'd prob be best off using the PS3 as a player at this point. It'll essentially cost me nothing. I definitely want to get bluray functionality on my PC, but it seems like it best to wait until Microsoft it's dragged kicking and screaming into the modern era, which I assume will be pretty soon, sometime around the release of the new xbox.
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# ? Feb 5, 2013 00:41 |
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DrVenkman posted:Sadly not, though I was surprised to see that Netflix has the unaltered version in HD and it looks very nice too.
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# ? Feb 5, 2013 04:46 |
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david_a posted:Huh, I'll have to watch it again. I've only seen the "ruined" version, but from what I've read the changes don't sound that bad. What exactly is so offensive about it? It's unnecessary, it clashes with the aesthetic of the film, and it destroys the pacing of several scenes.
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# ? Feb 5, 2013 04:58 |
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So I grabbed the 70th Anniversary Ultimate of Citizen Kane from Frys the other day for $24.99, which seemed like a good deal considering it's about $40 on amazon. Going by their website it's priced at $49.99 so it might just be a weekly sale that is over but worth a check if you're looking to buy it.
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# ? Feb 5, 2013 07:49 |
mr. mephistopheles posted:So I grabbed the 70th Anniversary Ultimate of Citizen Kane from Frys the other day for $24.99, which seemed like a good deal considering it's about $40 on amazon. Going by their website it's priced at $49.99 so it might just be a weekly sale that is over but worth a check if you're looking to buy it. I want this version so badly (its the digibook, right?) because the UK one is a lovely transfer.
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# ? Feb 5, 2013 13:07 |
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Is there something horribly wrong with Speed Racer? Because seriously, three quid! \/Well, in that case, Sold!\/ Kerbtree fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Feb 5, 2013 |
# ? Feb 5, 2013 18:53 |
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There is nothing wrong with Speed Racer at all. EDIT: Well, the little kid and the monkey get a bit too much screen time. That's it though.
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# ? Feb 5, 2013 19:03 |
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Kerbtree posted:Is there something horribly wrong with Speed Racer? Because seriously, three quid! I think people complained because it didn't have loseless audio and is on a single layer disc but, gently caress them, Speed Racer looks great.
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# ? Feb 5, 2013 19:05 |
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I've only ever seen uncompressed audio billed as a thing with mono movies. Can they even get uncompressed stereo on one disc?
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# ? Feb 5, 2013 19:06 |
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Sporadic posted:I think people complained because it didn't have loseless audio and is on a single layer disc but, gently caress them, Speed Racer looks great. It does. It looks awful streaming on Netflix, and even when I DVR'd it, but the Blu-ray looks great. It's a movie that's a lot more rewarding in high-def.
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# ? Feb 5, 2013 19:12 |
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It's a pretty dreadful film on many levels, but looks fantastic. I'm ordering it now regardless!
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# ? Feb 5, 2013 19:47 |
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Kerbtree posted:Is there something horribly wrong with Speed Racer? Because seriously, three quid! I've never understood the hate for the movie. It's a wonderful, colorful film that doesn't take itself seriously at all. Perhaps people were hoping for too much for a film adapted from a lovely 60s (or was it 70s?) foreign-made cartoon? It is absolutely a great film to showcase the strengths of owning a HD TV and a Blu-Ray player, and is a steal at whatever 3 quid is. The cost of a beer, I'd guess?
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# ? Feb 5, 2013 19:58 |