Fourth Strike-New U.SA. Kung Fu DVD Label

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 09 Apr 2009, 20:12

Looks like a cheap outfit but it's nice to see obscure kung fu bashers making their way to disc.I Picked up the Jimmy Wang Yu flick The Rebel Boxer,english dub only unfortunately.some screens below:

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 09 Apr 2009, 21:48

Those screenshots look pretty good

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 09 Apr 2009, 21:51

Do they? In two of them there are terrible interlacing issues

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 09 Apr 2009, 21:56

The bottom one does, it doesnt look good there! But I meant they look better than I thought, sometimes with obscure films they just use a 10th generation VHS transfer

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 09 Apr 2009, 21:58

gasteropod wrote:Do they? In two of them there are terrible interlacing issues

Taken in context Gas, taken in context.

It's a shame they're dub only. That completely disqualifies any interest I may have had.

grim_tales wrote:sometimes with obscure films they just use a 10th generation VHS transfer

A Pan and Scan on to boot.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 10 Apr 2009, 00:05

Ma Su Chen is a quickie sequel to Furious Slaughter and the opening act is ripped from the finale of that film... lol.

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 12 Apr 2009, 10:27

bradavon wrote:
gasteropod wrote:Do they? In two of them there are terrible interlacing issues
Taken in context Gas, taken in context.

It's a shame they're dub only. That completely disqualifies any interest I may have had.

grim_tales wrote:sometimes with obscure films they just use a 10th generation VHS transfer
A Pan and Scan on to boot.

If you're lucky. Some old transfers just took the middle of the screen and ran with it

chenlung · Post by **chenlung** » 14 Apr 2009, 16:52

A Mandarin soundtrack exists for the film. I wonder why they didn't include it.

A non-anamorphic menu is odd.

The video is interlaced, but I wonder if it's PAL>NTSC from King's DVD in Japan. The video does look very good. If it had colour-corrected it a bit further, then it would be even better.

Shame it's lacking as it could have been really good.

oldeschool17 · Post by **oldeschool17** » 15 Apr 2009, 00:49

chenlung wrote:A Mandarin soundtrack exists for the film. I wonder why they didn't include it.

A non-anamorphic menu is odd.

The video is interlaced, but I wonder if it's PAL>NTSC from King's DVD in Japan. The video does look very good. If it had colour-corrected it a bit further, then it would be even better.

Shame it's lacking as it could have been really good.

This label doesn't have the budget that MB, DD, or others to POTENTIALLY cleanup/redo as you would like. Does this print appear to be better than the Japanese version?