Hello Satanika,
I got good news. I success to get a VHS version of Nezha digitalized onto DVD.
Lets talk by PM about the link transfer.
Okay i will try to do a digital transfer (throug a specialized company) if I succeed to get the 2 VHS.
I think it will cost me a bit of money. But if you can succeed to achieve your project, I will be happy about it :)
Hello Satanika,
I found 2 PAL VHS for sale here :
http://www.priceminister.com/offer/buy/890947/Le-Roi-Des-Singes-VHS.html
and here :
http://www.amazon.fr/gp/offer-listing/B00005AXDF/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used
But I am not sure if you are looking for buying them of only get a digital transfer from someone. But why do you need 2 VHS ?
It's still a NTSC version. So you will get blended frames on this release since PAL to NTSC transfer (as the reverse way) is often bad made.
So it does not worth to buy it except if you want to watch the extras on the second disc.
Just to know : does it exist an integral chinese version of Uproar in Heaven ? With a complete chinese audio track ? Or the only one you can find is the french one ?
satanika said:
There WILL be a v2 using the French release, and though it's not a perfect release at all, there will be a pretty big increase in quality over my previous version.
Hmm, they put a new release date on some of those DVDs, but I doubt they changed anything, the covers look exactly the same as ever...
Did you order the Taiwan editions because you wanted NTSC versions?
Assuming they are the same as before, the Taiwan Uproar In Heaven DVD is absolutely horrible... It's basically the Chinese DVD converted to NTSC very badly, with the wrong aspect ratio to boot.. Quite frankly it's unwatchable..
Some Taiwan DVDs are completely different transfers though.
I actually bought all the "chinese animation" DVD (volumes 1 to 7, only the 4 is missing) just to have them in my collection. I am not looking exactly for a NTSC version, it's more about the english subtitles. All of them are subtitled. I didn't get my order yet but if you are interested I can send you some screens ?
But after reading this thread and discovered the bad transfer and the bad subtitles, I ordered as well the french DVD of Uproar in Heaven. Apparently the french dubber of the Monkey King is quiet good.
satanika said:
A bit of news...
Da Nao Tian Gong/Uproar In Heaven:
I recently learned that there is a French DVD of Da Nao Tian Gong (Le Roi Des Singes). I just received a copy today. It appears to be an almost-complete transfer of the French theatrical version. Almost, because although no major chunks appear to be missing like in the 40th ed., little chunks (like a half a second to a second) seems to be missing in many places.
It looks to be the best transfer of the theatrical version so far though, somewhat better than the Chinese bootleg source, but due to the chunks of frames missing it is still incomplete, and not a true representation of the theatrical version (and the DVD is French only)... sigh... This movie seem to be cursed or something.
I think this French DVD was released in the last quarter of 2008. It's really too bad I didn't have this version or even knew about it back when I was working on the restoration. :( I guess no French Monkey King fans visits the forum..
So it would be nice to do a v2 with the new material, but to be honest I'm not really itching to do much of that work again. In all likelyhood I'll get around to it but I can't really say when. Also the frames missing could make it even more time-consuming, since this is/was a frame-accurate restoration, as far as that is even possible.
I am so sorry to be interested in chinese animation so late. Because I am french and I discover recently that there was a full integral version of Uproar in Heaven (but only in french effectively). So if I was aware about it 2 -3 years ago, I could let you know T_T
I discover that on this thread. The webmaster of this french website is very aware about all kind of animation.
Anyway you did an incredible work to remaster by your own this beautiful movie.
Maybe you will do a v2 from the french DVD one day. But as you said before it seems this french version missed few frames sometimes. But will be there a big difference of quality between your fan restoration (from french VHS in part) and a complete v2 from the french DVD ?
Otherwise I ordered recently all these chinese animation DVD from YESASIA (apprently they did new versions released in 2009). I am not sure about the video quality. I will see when I get my order. But the taiwanese version of Uproar in Heaven seems to be a 44 min version O_o