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Sirotan posted:For <$20, you can fix this problem and rage no more: http://www.amazon.com/Media-Blu-ray-Remote-Control-Playstation-3/dp/B0050SX9I2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1379347378&sr=8-1&keywords=ps3+remote Nope, the problem is not the hardware.
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Aatrek posted:The pilot wasn't affected by any of the other issues with the S1 set. I thought I remembered differently so I went and found some forum posts from around when the Star Trek: TNG Season 1 replacement discs were being sent out. http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=192027&page=99 (and a couple pages before and after) People reporting audio issues with Encounter at Farpoint - things that were not present on the 'Next Level' sampler. They fixed a lot of stuff with the replacement discs, but Season 1 still has a few audio issues here and there.
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For anybody who wanted Night Of The Living Dead (1990), it's on sale at Vudu in HDX for only $7.88 - I was only able to look at the two minute preview but the color timing looks correct. http://www.vudu.com/movies/#!content/14626/Night-of-the-Living-Dead It's not too surprising that Twilight Time hosed up. The old HDTV transfer also had the correct color timing.
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If anyone pre-ordered the Prince of Darkness BD from Scream Factory, they're shipping now. I got mine today.
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I don't know how many of you would care about this, but Blue Underground is releasing Bruno Mattei's "Rats - Night of Terror" and "Hell of the Living Dead" on Blu-Ray next year. Which has me super excited because they're both some of the best 80s Italian ripoff exploitation films out there.
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Personperson14 posted:I don't know how many of you would care about this, but Blue Underground is releasing Bruno Mattei's "Rats - Night of Terror" and "Hell of the Living Dead" on Blu-Ray next year. Which has me super excited because they're both some of the best 80s Italian ripoff exploitation films out there. This is wonderful news! I love me some Bruno Mattei.
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What's the best way to receive notifications about new releases on Blu-Ray? A Blu-Ray release for House II: The Second Story is coming, right? 
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Red posted:What's the best way to receive notifications about new releases on Blu-Ray? I check Blu-Ray.com regularly, keep an eye on the pre-orders list on the homepage. I think it auto populates from Amazon.
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Red posted:What's the best way to receive notifications about new releases on Blu-Ray? Blu-ray.com/liking the distributors you buy a lot from on Facebook to see ahead of time what they're planning. I got the Bruno Mattei stuff from Blue Undergrounds Facebook. I don't even think it's up on bluray.com yet. E- it is I just didn't notice, but facebook is handy for following the smaller companies. dentist toy box fucked around with this message at 14:17 on Sep 20, 2013 |
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$4.99 (you may have to look under 'more buying choices' to see the price from Amazon) Cast Away - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000WQWPJQ...S0BNWNHVNQ2ZSZ9 The Girl Next Door (2007) - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0029XFN8A...2MK1GR1K4SD0KNQ Both include a free digital rental of the movie from Amazon VOD.
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Looks like Time Bandits finally has a good transfer. In Europe. 
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VoodooXT posted:Looks like Time Bandits finally has a good transfer. This is the best screenshot comparison I could find. Original US release vs. New UK release.
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tickle monster posted:This is the best screenshot comparison I could find. Original US release vs. New UK release. The color looks way better on the US release.
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Trump posted:The color looks way better on the US release. I wouldn't say way better. It's a little washed out, and the UK release is a little too dark for my tastes, but look at the guy in the back with the beard. The UK has much better detail and definition.
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VoodooXT posted:Looks like Time Bandits finally has a good transfer. On the other hand we still have the Criterion Collection and they don't. 
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Hannibal Season 1 preorder is down to $21.99 - Fantastic price for a great show and it comes with an Ultraviolet code. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CWIMY3O...E7XQDZHZJKAYSZM
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CPL593H posted:On the other hand we still have the Criterion Collection and they don't.
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Betty Boop Volume 1 dropped to $20.60 on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D4C6780...83RAHPTB0YDGW7T
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My M.O.C. Repo Man Blu-Ray has the exact same extras as the Criterion version but a much uglier cover.
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FreudianSlippers posted:My M.O.C. Repo Man Blu-Ray has the exact same extras as the Criterion version but a much uglier cover. Is it the same (director approved) transfer?
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^ MoC = Masters of Cinema (Both the Criterion and MoC edition used the same transfer except MoC matted the image slightly to 1.85:1 as opposed to Criterion leaving the full 1.78:1 scan open - difference of a few lines pixels) It's been out for a year, but the Universal Hitchcock set is pretty good so far. Rear Window and Vertigo are simply amazing. I can't believe how spotless and film-like they look. Vertigo finally has a decent 5.1 and mono mix. They totally re-did the 5.1 track to have proper foley levels instead of the "pasted in" sound on the previous editions. However, they could have authored the discs better. The Universal logo plays when you start the disc, when you start the movie, and it's pasted in front of the Paramount logo on the Hitchcock estate films (Vertigo, Rear Window, etc). So it plays three times before the movie. Obnoxious!
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Not sure if anyone here was following it but some dudes over at originaltrilogy.com had been working on a fixed version of the Night of the Living Dead 1990 remake blu ray. They totally fixed the dark color that was inexplicably applied to it. Link to the thread about it: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Our-Night-Of-The-Living-Dead-1990-project/topic/14861/ The people who donated to the project got this hotness: 
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CPL593H posted:Is it the same (director approved) transfer? Yes. It appears to be pretty much the same in almost every way. It was however a lot cheaper then the Criterion and I didn't have to wait over a month for it to arrive. FreudianSlippers fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Sep 24, 2013 |
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FreudianSlippers posted:Yes. It appears to be pretty much the same in almost every way. It was however a lot cheaper then the Criterion and I didn't have to wait over a month for it to arrive. Yeah well....we have....uhhhh...FREEDOM!
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Man Dutch Blu-rays are so weird. For example why are there trailers for Jackie Brown and Sin City on my Boondocks Saints Blu-ray. Not even "Now available on Blu-ray" trailers either. The original cinematic trailers with poorly translated hardcoded subs that look like they were also originally included on the DVD. Jackie Brown, coming Christmas day (1997). Edit: Also have several blu-rays that include glorious 4:3 trailers for ancient movies. NihilismNow fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Sep 24, 2013 |
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I know I had asked this a long time ago in another thread, but is there any word of The Passion of Joan of Arc getting a release on Blu-Ray in North America? The Criterion DVD still looks pretty good but the print MoC used in their newest release is really loving good but I haven't seen anything pop up about it in a while (or I'm dumb and haven't noticed). I'm still going to be hanging on to the DVD because it's really hard for me to watch it without Richard Einhorn's score at this point and I'm stubborn about listening to other audio for it.
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Awesome Welles posted:I know I had asked this a long time ago in another thread, but is there any word of The Passion of Joan of Arc getting a release on Blu-Ray in North America? The Criterion DVD still looks pretty good but the print MoC used in their newest release is really loving good but I haven't seen anything pop up about it in a while (or I'm dumb and haven't noticed). Gaumont is working on their own digital restoration, which is probably what Criterion is waiting for. If I had a region free player, I would have gone ahead and ordered MoC's edition and just figure a way to sync Visions of Light. I was actually disappointed by Criterion's DVD after checking it out again recently. It must have been before they encoded dual layer, but the movie and all extras are crammed onto a DVD-5. The compression is really bad in spots. Just kind of weird they opted for DVD-5 for one of the greatest films ever made, yet they used a DVD-9 for the W.C. Fields shorts collection in the same year. 
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NihilismNow posted:Man Dutch Blu-rays are so weird. For example why are there trailers for Jackie Brown and Sin City on my Boondocks Saints Blu-ray. Not even "Now available on Blu-ray" trailers either. The original cinematic trailers with poorly translated hardcoded subs that look like they were also originally included on the DVD. Dutch bluray are atrocious and I almost always import unless it's a good Universal or Warner Bros. one. There's always one subtitle, Dutch, the transfer is often hosed up somehow (bad aspect ratio or 2.1 sound), have a lovely menu and no extras. It's embarrassing and a hassle.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:There's always one subtitle, Dutch, That's not true, you can also choose French 
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Dutch bluray are atrocious and I almost always import unless it's a good Universal or Warner Bros. one. This disc is like that, no menu just ancient trailers --> movie. I just don't understand the reason. The missing extras i can understand since most consumers would demand a translation track with that and that costs money and only 10% of the people care about that poo poo anyway so gently caress you. But to include 10+ year old 4:3 VHS trailers and not even take the effort to click together a menu over a static jpg is just mind boggling, these people have no sense of pride in their work at all. POS Samsung won't unlock so it looks like i am bound to region 2. What is a good country to import blu-rays from? The German ones are pretty cheap (cover art is translated but most seem to included original audio track) or do you just get the UK releases?
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Egbert Souse posted:Gaumont is working on their own digital restoration, which is probably what Criterion is waiting for. If I had a region free player, I would have gone ahead and ordered MoC's edition and just figure a way to sync Visions of Light. Yeah early Criterions can be appallingly bad. I actually applied for a job with them many years ago - I'd worked as a PA in television and hadn't had any luck getting my foot in the feature film world yet. This must have been 2001 or so. Anyway, I was using Mandy.com to try to get leads on feature film work (HAHAHAHA) and saw a job opening listed for a QC position at Criterion. I figured what the hell, right? I had it in my head that I might work my way up into film restoration and DVD producing. So I wrote a long cover letter introducing myself. Since I had little in the way of credentials, soomehow I thought it would be a good idea to impress them with my sharp eyed criticism of their existing products (the few I'd familiarized myself with, at least) so I devoted a paragraph to chastising them for their non-anamorphic DVD-5 titles. I guess I probably said I hoped to be part of the team that would lead them out of those dark ages... heh. Never heard back from them, can you believe it?
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Five Cent Deposit posted:Yeah early Criterions can be appallingly bad. I actually applied for a job with them many years ago - I'd worked as a PA in television and hadn't had any luck getting my foot in the feature film world yet. This must have been 2001 or so. Anyway, I was using Mandy.com to try to get leads on feature film work (HAHAHAHA) and saw a job opening listed for a QC position at Criterion. I figured what the hell, right? I had it in my head that I might work my way up into film restoration and DVD producing. So I wrote a long cover letter introducing myself. Since I had little in the way of credentials, soomehow I thought it would be a good idea to impress them with my sharp eyed criticism of their existing products (the few I'd familiarized myself with, at least) so I devoted a paragraph to chastising them for their non-anamorphic DVD-5 titles. I guess I probably said I hoped to be part of the team that would lead them out of those dark ages... heh. Never heard back from them, can you believe it? Jeffrey Wells?  To be honest, Criterion isn't to blame for older DVD standards. There's almost no DVDs with passable encoding by today's standards from before 2000. People were still figuring out how to make the format work well and most people wouldn't see the flaws anyways. Since when is compression artifacting intrusive on a 20" CRT with composite input? On the flip side, I'm still in awe of the quality of some early DVDs. American Graffiti is about as perfect as a 480p DVD can get and it's from 1998. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is surprisingly good (and still the only way to see the better international cut). Even the first editions of Casablanca and The Wizard of Oz look great. Then there's all the non-anamorphic MGM, Paramount, Fox, and Disney releases, all the pan & scan/open matte laserdisc ports, and flippers. I was horrified by how bad the compression looks on the original All the President's Men - 140 minutes crammed onto a DVD-5!
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Egbert Souse posted:Gaumont is working on their own digital restoration, which is probably what Criterion is waiting for. If I had a region free player, I would have gone ahead and ordered MoC's edition and just figure a way to sync Visions of Light. I had the same idea. I enjoy hearing different interpretations for soundtracks in other silent films but Voices of Light is just absolutely beautiful and Einhorn crafted it solely for the film, even going so far as to record the church bell at Joan's birthplace and incorporate it into the score. Good to hear there's a restoration coming along, though. It's my favorite movie of all of time and I'm just waiting to throw my money somewhere. quote:I was actually disappointed by Criterion's DVD after checking it out again recently. It must have been before they encoded dual layer, but the movie and all extras are crammed onto a DVD-5. The compression is really bad in spots. Just kind of weird they opted for DVD-5 for one of the greatest films ever made, yet they used a DVD-9 for the W.C. Fields shorts collection in the same year. It's funny - I popped it in yesterday to take a look at it and the extras really do look pretty compressed. The film itself isn't so bad, at least to me, but I don't think I ever realized they used DVD-5 for it. Odd.
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NihilismNow posted:This disc is like that, no menu just ancient trailers --> movie. Almost always go for UK or check Blu-ray.com whether or not the American release is region free. You can often import discs from Amazon.co.uk/com for even cheaper than buying a lovely Dutch copy in stores. German and French releases almost always go with their respective language subtitles only. There are examples of good releases though, like the french label Metropolitan release of 'Silent Hill' which had improved image, sound and English subtitles. Yet every other Metropolitan release foregoes English subs. Personally, no English subtitles-No sale. They finally release the non-poo poo looking version of 'Evil Dead 2' in Europe. No subtitles whatsoever. gently caress you. English subtitles is like the bare loving minimum you could possible put on the disc. Dissapointed Owl fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Sep 26, 2013 |
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Looks like Kino's new edition of The Stranger is quite good; Here's the old "HD Cinema Classics" disc: 
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