Will you be doing City Hunter? There is an HD transfer of it, it just needs the original mono synced to it.
By the way, I made a hybrid of Armour of God. Would you be interested in that?
Great! Looking forward to future releases.
Of course, the thing with the titles is just a minor quibble. The transfers are otherwise fantastic.
Just my two cents on the Japanese Blus of DM and SITES.
The image quality on both movies is excellent. They do however have the credits in English rather than Chinese. It also looks to me like the titles were digitally recreated, and are not actually on the print itself. DM's Cantonese track is more complete than on previous Sony releases, but it's still not 100% complete. All the dialog has been restored, but there are a few moments during fight scenes where it switches to the English dub (grunts, screams, etc.) The music in the opening scene is also timed incorrectly. The sound quality is decent, but I feel like it could be better. The sound quality on DM in particular varies greatly. Does any Laserdisc release of DM contain the full Cantonese audio? Of course, there are no English subtitles. The subtitles from the old Sony DVD sync up nicely, but they are dubtitles, unfortunately.
Great to hear! I recently re-watched Drunken Master 1 (in HD, no less), and I'm really looking forward to re-visiting DM2.
I've been wondering, did anyone ever capture the HD version of Dragons Forever that was up on Netflix? It had the Miramax logo at the beginning, but it was in Cantonese with English subs, and as far as I remember, it was in real HD, unlike the Blu-rays. It's not available anymore. Would be a shame if no one capped it.
Matt_Stevens said:
We will rip the 5.1 from the original Miramax DVD (the Blu-Ray's all seem to have a tiny DTS 2.0 track) and include it as an option.
The Dragon Dynasty disc has DTS audio and an audio commentary. I'm pretty sure the old Miramax release has only DD audio.
The final fight scene in Police Story 2 is particularly bad in terms of audio sync. If you sync up the sound effects, the dialog falls significantly out of sync and vice versa. What software do you use when syncing audio and video?
Also, does anybody know if the 1080p versions of First Strike and Who Am I? on iTunes are OAR and have decent image quality?
The German Blu-rays mostly use the upscaled Fortune Star transfers, but at least 'Heart of the Dragon' and 'City Hunter' are true HD. A lot of them have original Cantonese mono, but not all of them do. Some include alternate cuts. I also think they're releasing some films that haven't been out on Blu-ray before, so who knows what those look like.
I have an observation about subtitles. I noticed on your Police Story custom that the subtitles were placed on the black bar below the 2.35:1 frame. Of course, this is just down to personal preference, but, personally, I prefer to have the subtitles placed inside the frame (at the bottom of the frame). Maybe it would be worthwhile to have two subtitle streams, one below the frame, and one inside the frame?
Apparently, Film4/HD in the UK will air Police Story 3: Supercop on Friday, August 29th at 11:05 PM. This is supposedly the original HK cut in HD. I have a suspicion that it's only the upscaled Fortune Star transfer, but I think it might be worth capturing if it happens to be in real HD.
Are you planning on re-inserting the original ending to Drunken Master 2?
Does anyone have the Laserdiscs for Tokyo Fist and Bullet Ballet? I'd be interested to know what kind of sound mix is on them. The recent Blu-ray releases have mono sound, but most (all?) of the previous DVD releases have stereo sound.
Thanks! :D Those Police Story monos would be nice. What are the sources? I have the Deltamac DVDs for Police Story 2 and 3, but not Police Story 1. I have the Dragon Dynasty releases also.
If it sounds better than the mono on the Joy Sales disc, then sure, I'll take it. :D I'd also like the Mandarin audio. I've finished an encode of the movie using the HD Echo Bridge transfer, inserting the missing scenes from the upscaled Fortune Star transfer. I just need to add the audio and subtitles.
Does anyone have the original Cantonese mono mix of Armour of God in good quality? Not sure if it was ever released on Laserdisc.
Does anyone have the PCM mono audio for Enter the Dragon?
Does anyone have any info on this set?
They seem to come with lossless mono, but I wonder about the image quality.
jimbotron235 said:
The last release of the original version was a flipper disc DVD in 1997.
Actually, there was a region 2 release in 2000 on a dual layer disc.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to this. I really want to revisit this film. :)
This may be of interest.
I have PAL and NTSC DVDs of a movie sourced from the same master if you need more material to test on.
Is there a way to fix it? Also, does this affect anything other than VLC (standalone players etc.)?
I'm having some problems authoring an anamorphic PAL DVD. I'm using HCgui to encode the MPEG stream and I'm using a trial version of DVD Lab Pro to author it. It plays fine in PowerDVD and Windows Media Player, but VLC player displays the wrong aspect ratio. It outputs 2048 x 576 resolution. I can fix it by selecting 16:9 in the aspect ratio menu, but what is causing this problem? Any ideas?
Anyone got the HK Laserdisc of Story of Ricky AKA Riki-Oh?
Thanks for the input, Moth3r.
1. Not sure. How do I find out?
2. Audacity