The General HD Releases Thread!

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 25 Jul 2008, 14:35

Young Frankenstein specs

Early US Matrix specs - HD remaster of Animatrix confirmed
(Bill Hunt's rumour was right all along, eat your hat Romero.)

Early plans for Ghostbusters 1 & 2.

Funny Games remake UK home distribution rights rescued from oblivion - BD reannounced.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 25 Jul 2008, 17:31

EvaUnit02 wrote:
Early US Matrix specs - HD remaster of Animatrix confirmed
(Bill Hunt's rumour was right all along, eat your hat Romero.)

I think you will find I was one of the first people to say it was coming on here and other forums, the Warner Brother HD DVD Online survey said so a long time ago, well before Bill Chunt even opened his anus.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 25 Jul 2008, 18:04

Nah, it was Lourdes or Shingster, definitely not you.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 25 Jul 2008, 18:22

The Batman Begins BD AV is the same as the HD-DVD right?

I imagine these Matrix discs will look/sound the same. If so, I'll stick with my HD-DVD Trilogy.

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 25 Jul 2008, 19:07

bradavon wrote:The Batman Begins BD AV is the same as the HD-DVD right?

Yeah, I've read on a couple of sites that they've got the same encode.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 25 Jul 2008, 19:14

EvaUnit02 wrote:Nah, it was Lourdes or Shingster, definitely not you.

If you say so.

I did as I acctually entered the what you most want on HD poll

and read the results once they all came in, so I should know

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 25 Jul 2008, 20:21

One day you'll surprise us and admit to getting something wrong

.

gasteropod wrote:Yeah, I've read on a couple of sites that they've got the same encode.

Cheers.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 25 Jul 2008, 20:24

bradavon wrote:One day you'll surprise us and admit to getting something wrong .

How was I wrong you twonk

I took part in the survey, you did not, nor did anyone else here.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 25 Jul 2008, 20:31

Man you're hard work. I don't give a flying fuck about an apparent survey you signed. I was replying to you disagreeing with Eva's comment above.

Shingster · Post by **Shingster** » 25 Jul 2008, 23:21

EvaUnit02 wrote:Nah, it was Lourdes or Shingster, definitely not you.

Wasn't me!

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 26 Jul 2008, 10:47

EvaUnit02 wrote:Young Frankenstein specs

Early US Matrix specs - HD remaster of Animatrix confirmed
(Bill Hunt's rumour was right all along, eat your hat Romero.)

Early plans for Ghostbusters 1 & 2.

Funny Games remake UK home distribution rights rescued from oblivion - BD reannounced.

Thanks Eva, looks like I'll get Ghostbusters 1 and 2.

I hope they release The Matrix movies seperately on BD so I dont have to buy the poor sequels.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 26 Jul 2008, 10:53

Sadly I doubt they will. They've never released the SEs on DVD separately or HD-DVD.

The BD "trilogy" box set is currently only £14.99 though. I paid £17.99 for my HD-DVD box set.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 30 Jul 2008, 16:11

Taxi Driver in 2009:

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/1952

I bet it won't have the Stereo/Mono

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saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 31 Jul 2008, 14:07

CJ7 USA =Region-Free

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 01 Aug 2008, 08:26

Optimum:- Final specs for the UK releases of They Live, Evil Dead 2 and NotLD.

Also they've announced Army of Darkness, would be interesting to see which cut they'll be using. The Universal HD-DVD had the TC.

All region-encoded bar Basic Instinct.

Bah, this region-encoding shit is pissing me off, you can't even get by with just a Region A player any more.

Fox US announces Carrie for Oct 7th.
Terrifically made film, but I'm happy with the R1 DVD.

Eastern Promises - full specs:- Looks like it maybe a new encode too. Oct 14th.

Planet of the Apes boxset - Nov 4th.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 01 Aug 2008, 12:14

At least Basic Instinct is RA + RB.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 01 Aug 2008, 12:56

bradavon wrote:At least Basic Instinct is RA + RB.

That's like an HIV+ infected person saying "At least I have yet to develop AIDS."

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 01 Aug 2008, 13:04

Unless you were planning on buying a RC player, not really

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AFAIK the Optimum RB Only titles are: Son of Rambow, My Blueberry Nights and Diary of the Dead. The rest are Region Free or RA + RB.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 01 Aug 2008, 15:36

optimum Cliffhanger and Wolf Creek are region B.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 02 Aug 2008, 11:58

Ah good point. I forgot about Wolf Creek. I didn't know about Cliffhanger.

EvaUnit02 wrote:Bah, this region-encoding shit is pissing me off, you can't even get by with just a Region A player any more.

There are now several Multiregion offerings:

https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/forums/ ... php?t=4705

They're pricey though. I'm surprised no one has managed to release the PS3 in Region Switchable form.

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 02 Aug 2008, 17:23

bradavon wrote:I'm surprised no one has managed to release the PS3 in Region Switchable form.

I think that might be a problem, as the PS3 gets frequent firmware updates so Sony would just stop that from happening.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 02 Aug 2008, 17:37

I'm not so sure, why remove region coding if you then release your BDs Region Free? Besides it could be a hardware based region hack.

Other Players get firmware upgrades and they don't remove the multiregion status. Some companies (such as LG) do deliberately leave them in there though.

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 02 Aug 2008, 18:05

Brad, Blu-ray is Sony's format, and they chose not to have it region-free as standard (unsurprisingly), so just because they release certain films region-free doesn't mean that they want people watching any disc from around the world. They made the PS3 region-coded, and their standalone Blu-ray players region-coded. Sony is infamous for being a control-freak of a corporation, and with the PSP they constantly update its firmware to stop people using emulators and whatnot.

Yeah I'm pretty sure Sony can combat hardware-based region hacks with firmware updates.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 02 Aug 2008, 22:33

True except one of the BD MR Players is a Sony model. I guess it must be harder to hack though, seeing as it's the most popular BD Player out there.

gasteropod wrote:Yeah I'm pretty sure Sony can combat hardware-based region hacks with firmware updates.

I bet they could too but historically hardware hacks tend to be more solid.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 09 Aug 2008, 14:03

It looked ok to me & dvdtimes gave it a decent review but a number of forum threads are claiming the Escape From New York blu-ray is an upscale