The General HD Releases Thread!

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 13 May 2008, 18:04

it's a misleading disc announcement there,how can they return to blu-ray when they've never released anything on the format in the first place 8)

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 13 May 2008, 19:18

Short Circuit confirmed Region A locked

Godzooki · Post by **Godzooki** » 14 May 2008, 17:30

Rambo (2008) in stock tomorrow on blu @ dvdslimited, cant wait to watch this again. .50 cal headshots FTW! :twisted:

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 14 May 2008, 18:39

Tigercage wrote:Rambo (2008) in stock tomorrow on blu @ dvdslimited, cant wait to watch this again. .50 cal headshots FTW! :twisted:

yep,should get mine on Friday hopefully.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 14 May 2008, 18:39

Justice League being released in 4:3 apparently.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 14 May 2008, 19:12

I wonder what the Rambo deleted scenes amount to.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 14 May 2008, 19:16

3.25 seconds.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 14 May 2008, 19:49

bradavon wrote:I wonder what the Rambo deleted scenes amount to.

Rambo taking Julie Benz from behind

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 14 May 2008, 20:25

Around the Benz?

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 15 May 2008, 18:56

More like up the Benz.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 17 May 2008, 00:35

Play have listings for the following Blu-ray titles:

Escape From New York
http://www.play.com/DVD/Blu-ray/4-/5573 ... oduct.html

Cliffhanger
http://www.play.com/DVD/Blu-ray/4-/5573 ... oduct.html

They Live
http://www.play.com/DVD/Blu-ray/4-/5573 ... oduct.html

Total Recall
http://www.play.com/DVD/Blu-ray/4-/5573 ... oduct.html

Terminator 2
http://www.play.com/DVD/Blu-ray/4-/5572 ... oduct.html

The Fog

http://www.play.com/DVD/Blu-ray/4-/5573 ... oduct.html

Probably ports of the studio canal hd-dvds with some new titles.hope Cliffhanger is uncut.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 17 May 2008, 01:03

When Col/Tri release a US DB of Cliffhanger it'll likely have loads of extras (as per the DVD) and be Region Free.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 17 May 2008, 01:21

Well spotted Salty.

Unsurprisingly they're all Momentum titles, who so far haven't released any BDs (so we don't know if they'll be region locked).

While Total Recall, T2 and The Fog were all released by Studio Canal, so Momentum reusing the HD-DVD encode is certainly possible, the others haven't received any HD release yet (AFAIK).

So far Momentum haven't done anything with HD except port over the HD-DVDs, that Studio Canal already did the work with. It will be interesting to see what they do with them.

I'll get Escape from New York (it's about time I checked it out) and The Fog (I never got around to getting the HD-DVD). I'll only get T2 if the PQ is an improvement over the HD-DVD.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 17 May 2008, 05:10

They Live had better be in its OAR. Momentum's DVD (taken from Canal masters) is a heavily cropped mess and was only worth picking up for the wonderful commentary.

Specs of Disney's US BD of Gangs of New York, should be better than the UK EiV trash.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 17 May 2008, 12:37

Received my Sweeney Todd BD from play today.is this the first blu-ray steelbook? comes with a play exclusive behind the scenes booklet which is too big to slip inside the case which seems daft.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 17 May 2008, 13:13

Cool Salty, does it have lossless audio?

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 17 May 2008, 13:27

Audio specs are Dolby TrueHD 5.1 & DD 5.1 in english along with 5.1 in castellan,italian,spanish,french,german.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 17 May 2008, 13:45

Thanks Salty, great news. High bitrates are important for musicals.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 17 May 2008, 17:19

Thanks for the audio confirmation Salty. No press release has mentioned it.

For what it's worth the cancelled Paramount HD-DVD had slightly more extras but nothing special and as the Warner BD has Lossless I'm all over it.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 19 May 2008, 09:15

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=67771

Warner Home Video have announced the US Blu-ray Disc release of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest on 15th July 2008 priced at $34.99 SRP.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 19 May 2008, 10:05

I don't get why it's so rated. It's pretty good but nothing special. Nicholson is better in Chinatown and especially The Shining.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 19 May 2008, 10:55

You want to watch a baseball game?

Anyway, those ITV BDs that we've known about for yonks have formerly been announced.
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=67773
Talk about an all killer, no filler line up. For one Boys from Brazil never had a decent DVD, AFAIK.

We can also confirm the discs will not be region coded. Yippy.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 19 May 2008, 11:24

EvaUnit02 wrote:You want to watch a baseball game?

???

I don't want to watch any sport. It's all duller than dishwater.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 19 May 2008, 12:06

bradavon wrote:
EvaUnit02 wrote:You want to watch a baseball game?
???

I don't want to watch any sport. It's all duller than dishwater.

It's a famous quote from Cuckoo's Nest.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 19 May 2008, 16:06

Oh yeah. I remember.