Well Go: Legend of the Bat/Death Duel

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Well Go: Legend of the Bat/Death Duel

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Any word on the quality of these DVDs?
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Yes, but not on any sites where you're allowed ;)

Seriously though, someone said they were anamorphic as opposed to the old IVLs, that's all I know.
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Ideal would be if they were anamorphic, progressive NTSC, with Mandarin mono and decent subtitles.
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I wouldn't hold my breath.
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It's not much to ask really.
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They must have dubs, dubs that are rare are classic, WAHHH!!!!


Sorry, went all Bobo for a moment.

I expect these will be PAL-NTSC, and possibly non-anamorphic.
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This was posted on KFC...

wow - saw "Bat" tonight...dont quite know how to describe it!

Weird story of various people making their way to "bat island" , not quite sure whom is whom or why they are there which then turns into a group of them escaping the island...

Mad sets, dodgy model effects and meh fightscene at the end but all strangely watchable!

Twice had that weird thing of just freezing on a scene. I thought it was a disc problem but was not - is actually in the film. Yuen Wah has small part in this.

Picture quality was ok but was a bit fuzzy for the first 30 mins or so and then seemed to clear up slightly. I would guess PAL to NTSC from this but dont really know my tecchy side of discs so could not say 100%.

Audio in Mandarin and Original English Dub (5.1 and 2.0 for both languages).
4/5 modern preview trailers and about 10 shaw trailers.
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RetroRobot wrote:This was posted on KFC... Picture quality was ok but was a bit fuzzy for the first 30 mins or so and then seemed to clear up slightly. I would guess PAL to NTSC from this but dont really know my tecchy side of discs so could not say 100%.

Audio in Mandarin and Original English Dub (5.1 and 2.0 for both languages).
4/5 modern preview trailers and about 10 shaw trailers.
The run time is a giveaway for PAL to NTSC conversion.
The French PAL DVD lasts 98:43.
A proper NTSC progressive transfer should run approx 102:55

Doesn't say if the 2.0 is dual mono or a downmix.
Hmm....
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Still can't find anything on the net... and people wonder why distributors don't bother putting out more titles...
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These two titles have been out for over two months now and I still can't find any word on them.

What happened to all those fans who professed to care?

The ones who complain about a lack of new DVD releases?

Where are the reviews?

A very sad state of affairs.
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'Everyone' downloads. 'No one' really cares
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I care, I just can't be bothered throwing money at lousy distributors.
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I care and I will be picking them up. They are the only R1 Shaw Brothers I do not own yet. I looked at several places including Target, Walmart and FYE (two different places I frequent.) I will have to pick it on Amazon. I've delayed for a few reasons mostly monetary. I will try to get them next paycheck.