The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014) Blu-ray 3D [autoconversion]

[levcore]

Dickie Duvet just posted in the German forum that he has got a 3D blu of this. I have not seen anything anywhere about a 3D version of this movie. What's going on, can anyone tell me? Is it just a crappy German auto conversion? The weird thing is i googled it and i can't find anything on a 3D release whatsoever.

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=261486

[bigrob]

ta-daaaaa

http://www.bluray-disc.de/blu-ray-fi...d-blu-ray-disc

http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00V...3cc46ae21a9ea3

[levcore]

Thanks for the link, to my knowledge this movie has received no official 3D conversion so i can only assume it's a crappy German auto convert job, ie the kind of thing any 3D TV can do automatically.

Hopefully i'm wrong on this though. Does anyone have any info?

[the13thman]

I saw this one listed too but I'm afraid all signs point to it being a crappy German autoconversion.

[levcore]

Originally Posted by the13thman

I saw this one listed too but I'm afraid all signs point to it being a crappy German autoconversion.

as i suspected and i agree with you regarding all signs pointing to an auto convert.

Dickie Duvet said the 3D was really good but then he refused to answer my further questions about it regarding it being a German auto convert.

[mredman]

i also wonder how the 3d is here and if its 2 discs in the 3D set or if its just 1 disc with both the 2D and 3D versions along with extras on same disc ?

[levcore]

Originally Posted by mredman

i also wonder how the 3d is here and if its 2 discs in the 3D set or if its just 1 disc with both the 2D and 3D versions along with extras on same disc ?

I think it's 2 discs.

Let's see though, none of us have heard anything about a 3D conversion anywhere. This was not released theatrically in 3D in China like other movies such as Noah, Transcendence and Fast and Furious 7.

[the13thman]

Originally Posted by levcore

I think it's 2 discs.

There's no chance this is on 2 discs - if it was then I may hold out hope for the conversion, but these German autoconversions are always 2D+3D on the same disc, I have plenty of them. Even the 3D double bills like Ghost Shark / Mega Python vs Gatoroid and the first two Sharknados are all on one disc with their 2D versions.

Most of them are at the very bottom of my viewing pile, but sometimes I just want to switch my brain off and watch supercrappy Asylum/SyFy films - even bad 3D makes those better...

In my defence, I do wait for them to drop to just a couple of quid but I don't know why I keep buying them, I guess I must be an eternal optimist - the ones I've watched all invariably have NO POP EVER and either:

1. have everything pushed back into the screen, giving the illusion of depth. These generally come off the best and I suspect is what TTTDS looks like.

2. just have the top two thirds pushed back into the screen, with the bottom third kept forward, unchanged for pretty much the whole film (I like to call this the "roller" effect, as you can see credits etc roll over the bend, it also has the side effect of often making people look fat)

3. look wrong, with the autoconverter incorrectly layering things like lights. Locked Down has a good example of this, with bright orange jumpsuits looking like they are floating over the characters wearing them. It's blatantly cut as well, another common risk with German releases.

My favourite so far is Pusher, which falls into category 1 (and has a fantastic score by Orbital) and I did like what I saw of Sharknado 2 but at the same time I'm sometimes impressed by my TV's autoconverter - it's all a trick on my brain combined with wishful thinking. The fact is, though the odd shot may sometimes come off here and there, I haven't seen one of these autoconversions yet that I'd actually recommend anyone watch just for the 3D...

[ArieS]

Here are the specs of the disc:
DISC INFO:

Disc Title: Warte, bis es dunkel wird 3D
Disc Size: 20.580.862.157 bytes
Protection: AACS
BD-Java: Yes
Extras: 50Hz Content, Blu-ray 3D

PLAYLIST REPORT:

Name: 00652.MPLS
Length: 1:26:06.369 (h:m:s.ms)
Size: 11.443.372.032 bytes
Total Bitrate: 17,72 Mbps

VIDEO:

Codec Bitrate Description
----- ------- -----------
MPEG-4 AVC Video 9290 kbps 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
MPEG-4 MVC Video 3883 kbps

AUDIO:

Codec Language Bitrate Description
----- -------- ------- -----------
DTS-HD Master Audio German 1597 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1597 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 768 kbps / 16-bit)
DTS-HD Master Audio English 1675 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1675 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 768 kbps / 16-bit)

SUBTITLES:

Codec Language Bitrate Description
----- -------- ------- -----------
Presentation Graphics German 25,779 kbps
Presentation Graphics German 0,009 kbps
The video bitrate seems to be really low and the English audio bitrate is half of the US 2D version release.

Not looking good...

[xbs2034]

Originally Posted by ArieS

Here are the specs of the disc:
DISC INFO:

Disc Title: Warte, bis es dunkel wird 3D
Disc Size: 20.580.862.157 bytes
Protection: AACS
BD-Java: Yes
Extras: 50Hz Content, Blu-ray 3D

PLAYLIST REPORT:

Name: 00652.MPLS
Length: 1:26:06.369 (h:m:s.ms)
Size: 11.443.372.032 bytes
Total Bitrate: 17,72 Mbps

VIDEO:

Codec Bitrate Description
----- ------- -----------
MPEG-4 AVC Video 9290 kbps 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
MPEG-4 MVC Video 3883 kbps

AUDIO:

Codec Language Bitrate Description
----- -------- ------- -----------
DTS-HD Master Audio German 1597 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1597 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 768 kbps / 16-bit)
DTS-HD Master Audio English 1675 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1675 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 768 kbps / 16-bit)

SUBTITLES:

Codec Language Bitrate Description
----- -------- ------- -----------
Presentation Graphics German 25,779 kbps
Presentation Graphics German 0,009 kbps
The video bitrate seems to be really low and the English audio bitrate is half of the US 2D version release.

Not looking good...

Don't think I will import this, but just curious, is the disc region free or B locked?

[mredman]

i will get the 2D blu-ray then from Germany.

http://www.bluray-disc.de/blu-ray-fi...d-blu-ray-disc

The PQ and AQ is getting 9/10 can't complain about that and it also has more extras than the US set which is Region coded A i believe

[ArieS]

Originally Posted by xbs2034

Don't think I will import this, but just curious, is the disc region free or B locked?

I do not have the movie so I have no idea if it's A or B... Sorry

[AndyJWS]

AFAIK the mention of 2-disc set comes from a listing for a 3D version which included the 1976 version as well - that seems to no longer be the case though there is a 4-disc steelbook of the two films in 2D Blu and DVD at http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00W1TXVUO