The General HD Releases Thread!

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 08 Feb 2007, 21:49

EvaUnit02 wrote:I'll wait for an HD SE of Jaws, the coming one will prolly use the same old crummy 2000 master.

It's perfectly fine IMO.

EvaUnit02 wrote:Seriously, who gives a flying fuck? Underworld sucks, no alternative cut in the world could make an Underworld film suck any less.

I give a fuck. I like the Underworld films, as guilty pleasures.

saltysam wrote:i have no interest in games,my son does,my interest is in the blu-ray movies 8)

Great combo player then it seems. Your son gets a new games console and you get both HD-DVD/BD without having two standalone players. Perfect!

It seems I'll be waiting even longer as LG have royaly stuffed their Combo player up.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 11 Feb 2007, 02:53

Children of Men combo coming:-
http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/ ... -men3.html

Brad can you please update the main list this time? Ta.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 11 Feb 2007, 19:06

Done. It's not a title I'm interested in though. Which documentaries are on Combos?

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 12 Feb 2007, 01:38

bradavon wrote:Which documentaries are on Combos?

Dunno, you can find em on Pacific. It looked like the type of crap they show at an IMAX though.

There's also a combo of Digital Video Essentials. It looks to be exactly the same as the SD version, except there's tests to calibrate the HD audio formats ie Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD, etc.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 12 Feb 2007, 23:16

It looked like the type of crap they show at an IMAX though.

Thanks, oh those sort. I won't even look then. I thought you meant proper documentaries.

There's also a combo of Digital Video Essentials. It looks to be exactly the same as the SD version, except there's tests to calibrate the HD audio formats ie Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD, etc.

Those are overkill IMO and a waste of cash.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 27 May 2007, 17:55

Updated with lists of region free BDs. Might be a good idea to make this thread sticky, eh Brad?

gojensen · Post by **gojensen** » 29 May 2007, 07:36

Question; why did you list lindsites IP address instead of the proper address? (http://bluray.lindsite.dk/)

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 29 May 2007, 08:32

That's what google threw up when I searched for BR multiregion lists.

gojensen · Post by **gojensen** » 30 May 2007, 10:01

Hm, right... fix it then

IP's change

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 04 Jun 2007, 21:37

There is also a Hot Fuzz DVD Combo coming in The States, some comments over at DVD Active say the HD-DVD side will be getting all the UK extras too.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 18 Jun 2007, 15:07

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=65118
HD-DVD review of Frenchie Mulholland Dr. WTF is up with the lack of pitch correction? Lazy cheese eating fucks.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 28 Jun 2007, 04:24

Freedom vol. 1 combo: DVD side vs HD-DVD side comparison
http://blog.affenheimtheater.de/2007/06 ... vergleich/

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 30 Jun 2007, 00:04

I looked on the back of the case of X-Men: The Last Stand (Blu-ray), and it said the runtime is 99 minutes. That is the PAL running time (The American one says 104 minutes). Does anyone here own this? I was tempted to buy it because it should look good in HD, but no way am I getting it if it has PAL speed-up or something.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 30 Jun 2007, 21:24

gasteropod wrote:I looked on the back of the case of X-Men: The Last Stand (Blu-ray), and it said the runtime is 99 minutes. That is the PAL running time (The American one says 104 minutes). Does anyone here own this? I was tempted to buy it because it should look good in HD, but no way am I getting it if it has PAL speed-up or something.

PAL/NTSC speedup doesn't exist on hd as far as i'm aware.i have the american disc.by the way it's not one of the more spectacular blu-ray discs,which surprised me.better than the sd but not greatly.

Lourdes · Post by **Lourdes** » 30 Jun 2007, 23:57

There's no video speed up but some Studio Canal HD-DVD's have speeded up audio because the French are lazy sods.

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 01 Jul 2007, 02:00

Yeah, I'm guessing that it's a mistake then.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 01 Jul 2007, 02:20

Lourdes wrote:There's no video speed up but some Studio Canal HD-DVD's have speeded up audio because the French are lazy sods.

The DVDtimes reviewer (one of the MacKenzie brothers, I think) seems convinced that ALL of the Studio Canal releases thus far have had the wrongly pitched audio.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 01 Jul 2007, 13:23

Considering the price of HD X-Men 3 isn't one I'd upgrade any time soon. It would certainly have to be under a tenner before I was interested in it.

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 01 Jul 2007, 16:22

I wasn't very impressed when I saw it at the cinema, but I thought it might be one worth buying for my new HD setup.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 01 Jul 2007, 16:33

You don't have to buy average movies just because they're cheap and/or you don't have to use average movies as demo discs. There's plenty of AAA grade films on both HD optical formats at this point.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 16 Jul 2007, 20:33

some details on Tartan's blu-ray releases here

http://www.zetaminor.com/whatsnew.htm

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 20 Aug 2007, 14:24

Kick ass:-
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=65420
UK HD-DVDs and BRDs of Pan's Labyrinth, The Host and Wolf Creek coming from Optimum in Nov.

Top Gun in Oct. for both formats. Barebones, they have no excuse for this.

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=65097

Face/Off in Oct. for both formats.
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=64762

The Wild Bunch and Wyart Earp for both formats, in Sept.
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=65354

Carlito's Way for HD-DVD in Oct. FUCK YEAH, give us Scarface next please.
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=65447

The Replacement Killers Extended for BRD in Sept.
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=65611

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 20 Aug 2007, 14:41

I'm hearing Face/Off is now a 1 disc release where it was a 2 disc release before, same extras though.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 20 Aug 2007, 15:29

i'll pick up wild bunch,replacement killers,carlito's way,face/off from that list.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 20 Aug 2007, 16:52

Face/Off and Carlito's Way no contest for me.