MrBrown

The upcoming (March 2011) german DVD and BD release of the Grindhouse feature is at the moment stated to contain the Fake Trailer "Hobo with a shotgun" . If it's true this would be damn cool, because neither the US Bd nor the jap. DVD seems to feature that trailer.

Regarding Face Off:

I won't say that this are compression artifacts. It seems to be the Filmgrain. Or could you specify the Point where you see the artifacts?

It's the only Disc that causes trouble with my PS3.

Its one of the first european PS3 releases with a 60gb HDD (now 600 gb *g*) and the software emulation for PS2 games.

My PC has an old Pioneer BD-Rom (About 2 years old), it reads every disc except the Apocalypse Now Disc. Even the red fox fails to read the disc complete. Stops after 60%, while my Windows not even possible to show how much space the disc uses.

Either the Disc is defect, or the Disc Drives are to old, getting some of the new standards/copy-protections read properly.

Maybe some further update to the red fox will fix this, so I may get the D my Popcorn Hour to Watch it on my TV.

btw:

I have the german DVD of the television cut. Do you think it will be possible to get the german audio onto the BD video stream? What should I try to do? Speeding the PAL sound down to match the video, or speed the video up to match PAL speed? I am complete new to this :)

I have it, but my PS3 and my BD-Rom seem impossible to read he first disc :( hope some further PS3 update will fix this... or maybe some new BD-Rom one day...

The german BD of FACE|OFF is not so DNRed as the US Disc.

Check out still images at caps-a-holic.

(Hope this also counts as "special" content :) )

DarkGryphon2048 said:

MrBrown said:

Additional get the Taiwan DVD of Hard Boiled. The quality may s*** (Hard Boiled at caps-a-holic) but it is the only source (known to me) containing the longer cut of the movie.

Fo "The Killer" I recommend additionally the french double DVD set. The bonus Disc containing a longer Version of The Killer. The Image Quality could be better, but is not as bad as the Taiwan Hard Boiled release. (The Killer at caps-a-holic)

You also use caps-a-holic? EXCELLENT.

Sometimes I also help there providing additonal versions. Exactly like the HK remastered and french Versions of "The Killer" and the Taiwan Version of "Hard Boiled". Its great to see that some people like the work there. :)

Additional get the Taiwan DVD of Hard Boiled. The quality may s*** (Hard Boiled at caps-a-holic) but it is the only source (known to me) containing the longer cut of the movie.

Fo "The Killer" I recommend additionally the french double DVD set. The bonus Disc containing a longer Version of The Killer. The Image Quality could be better, but is not as bad as the Taiwan Hard Boiled release. (The Killer at caps-a-holic)

I have a similiar thing: The Popcorn Hour. Stocked with 2 TB. It plays mkv and BD ISOs and DVD ISOs and BD folder structures, DVD folder Structures and so on. Poorly the Firmware is not finished, yet, so its sometimes kinda buggy.

The big Popcorn Hour C-200 could contail a 2.5" SATA HD inside, and a 3.5 " SATA in an excange frame. Instead of the exchange frame there could be installed a BD-Rom for watching BDs. I belive its also possible to plug BD-Roms via USB. External HDs and Sticks could be plugged via USB and could be used to play files from. The C-200 can play BD-ISOs with BD Java content.

The small one, the A-200 could only be stocked with one SATA HD, and can play the same formats as the big boy, but It has no license to use BD-Java. So BDs with Java Menues ust play the main movie, and have no possibilities to use the extras. Language Settings can be done by a player menu.

To be honest: at the moment the popcorn hour is quite expensive and there are some important things that don't really work fine with the current firmware.

The Germen DVD of the new robin Hood semms to contain some more blood splats than US DVD, BD and german BD.

A cut review in german is avaible here.

The Howling? Germany had the raw-cut Version on DVD. It was about 99Min 50 Sec in PAL speed.

Poor thing: its not avaible anymore...

The normal cut version is on BluOut in germany, too. But I don't know anything regarding quality...

digitalfreaknyc said:

Does anyone have True Lies from Germany with these?

Trailers:
- German Trailer (1:27)
- English Trailer (2:10)
Teaser [English] (0:59)
TV-Spot [English] (0:30)
Interviews: (15:22)
- True Lies: Arnold Schwarzenegger (5:22)
- True Lies: Jamie Lee Curtis (4:55)
- True Lies: James Cameron (5:04)
"True Lies: Hollywood Premiere" - featurette (5:30)

 

...

 

Yeah. Me! Got it for about € 6 in a second hand shop here in Germany.

Cube is out as BluRay in Netherland. But except for some Trailersits free of bonus features.

It comes in 1080p with English Audio and optional Dutch Subs.

Hell frozen!

JEAH! Okay.. now I don't need the VHS anymore :)

Hopefully this release come to Germany, too.

Hopefully in redux AND Theatrical Version!

I once ordered at an italian site. I don't know any italian, but google language tool helped me out enought, to get the Vincent Price "Last man on earth" from italy :)

Seem that both of the eBay sellers don't ship to USA.

...so.. i just ordered at eBay for € 14.

If I don't like that movie, I may sell it again.

Edit:

I once checked how much it would be shipping from germany to USA (I got the "The Day After" DVD with widescreen presentation.) Shipping was quite expensive. € 13.90 via DHL .. UPS seems somebit higher.

Addidtionally the Movie is quite expensive. (I bought it at ebay for 14 Euro. other listings are 16 and above.. 25 Euro at Amazon.de for a used 40+ for an "new".)

So you could calculate above 30 Euro for the DVD send to from a german member to you. That would be $40 or more for the DVD !

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Be carefull at amazon.de marketplace. US and UK discs may be offered under the german Disc page!

for example the offer for 19.99 € states:

US-DVD mit längerer Fassung als auf deutscher DVD! Region 1-DVD, bitte prüfen Sie, ob Ihr Player die abspielt.

Translated:

"US-DVD with longer Cut than german DVD! RC-1, check if your player is capable of playing it."

Mitch was last online March 20th.

Does anyone know anything?

UK is not anamorphic and has the director's cut, not the thatrical cut.. gemany seems the only country with theatrical cut and anamorphic...

Sorry, I don't know anyone who taped this movie. As a matter of fact I am the only one i know personal who is so obsessed with movie like I am :(

I even imported two Italian DVDs, which stated to have 2.35:1 aspect ratio. Its even printed that way on the Covers. But as a matter of fact they even have just 2.00:1...

Some of the TV airings seem to be in 2.10:1 or 2.15:1, like the Marketing tape i own. But the data on ofdb.de are not allways correct.

Oh jeah.. i meant 1.33:1 => 4:3

The image quality is .. nut just quite bad.. its.. damn bad. Just grab a snap for your vewing unpleasure :D

Just found two german DVDs at eBay for about € 20. Seems to be very rare..

eBay 1

eBay 2

The German VCD has 1:33 Full Screen. I know it, because I own it. :)

Its also from Philips like the UK VCD (as the eBay link some posts above).

I read the info, that the LD was indeed mastered from 2.35:1 original, but it has only a AR of 1.85:1. But my source (ofdb.de) may be wrong.

Can you take a snap-shot? :) (Just to compare siz.. eh.. Aspect Ratio :) )

I just have no possibility to get the tape in best possible quality to PC.

Not that I have problems playing PAL VHS tapes. (I am from Germany *g*), but my USB video/Audio Grabber is just a cheap thing made for home use, not for professional grabbing.

The German Version of Tarantinos "Inglourious Basterds" is about 50 sconds longer than international releases.

Here is a german cut report, whats longer. Its just in one scene... but.. hey.. better than nothing :D

Don't ask me why.

It was not just "indiziert" which means that it could be sold on special shops with an area just for adult movies, where no minors are even allowed to enter. It was "beschlagnahmt" which means that it wasn't allowed to publish, and copies were confiscated by police.

"Indiziert" is for movies, songs, comics called 'jugendgefährdend' which means that judges thoght the movies where bad for the development of youth regarding violence, sex or such things.

"Beschlagnahmt" is for movies, songs, comics which are judged to be someway against some law against glorifing violence. It is not forbidden to own them private, but to sell them, rent them, publicy them.

I still wait for the information if the austrian BD release of Texas Chainsaw Massacre comes to germany as a normal unlimited release. But the problem is that the movie was longe time banned in germany. Almost every release was cut and banned.

I'll keep my eyes open.