Nausciaa: Valley of the Wind HK release?

[singhcr]

I'd love to get this movie ASAP but there are the following issues for me:

1. Japanese version is great but very expensive, ~$70 USD.
2. US version will most likely not have lossless Japanese audio, which is a must for me.
3. UK version will most likely have lossless Japanese audio but will be Region B locked.

I got the HK version of Ponyo, it's 1080i but I have a 1080i TV so it wasn't a huge issue for me and it had a 6.1 DTS-HD MA Japanese track.

Has there been any indication of a HK release of this classic film?

[OrlandoEastwood]

Nothing yet. The HK release for Ponyo came out about a month before the U.S. release.

[Jeff Kleist]

2. US version will most likely not have lossless Japanese audio, which is a must for me.

Don't count on that. I'm not saying it as gospel, but the lack of lossless Japanese was not the result of licensing issues on Ponyo

[Kevtronn]

Would be nice like Evangelion 2.22 HK Blu-ray, but we still had to wait for that one...

[singhcr]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

Don't count on that. I'm not saying it as gospel, but the lack of lossless Japanese was not the result of licensing issues on Ponyo

Do you know why that was done, by chance? I've noticed a small trend where foreign films get lossy audio on the US releases.

New Police Story has a DTS-HD MA English track, but a DTS Cantonese track.
The UK release of Invisible Target has lossless English and Cantonese tracks, the US release has lossy Cantonese audio.

Thankfully this is the exception to the rule, but I am puzzled as to why it is done in the first place.