List of International BDs with Better PQ, AQ, and/or More Extras

[HD Goofnut]

Added Dragowyck.

[drb124]

Originally Posted by linger63

The Limited Edition offers the following.......

Includes a mini-poster (subject to change). *Rated 12-and-over.
Special Feature / Bonus Track: unreleased scenes, "Alien Agenda," and more

Here are links to both for you.....

LTD ED.....http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/WHV-1000589219

REG ED....http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/WHV-1000203360

Thanks. I was viewing the cdjapan sit on my phone and o didn't realize there was more the page if I kept scrolling. Oops.

[HD Goofnut]

Added Man of the East.

[Early Memphis]

Does anyone know if Hunted (no US release), the Melissa George one-season TV series, is region B locked or not? The site says, for both the UK and DE, “Region B (A, C untested)”. Both Amazons say B:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hunted-1-Bl...melissa+george

https://www.amazon.de/Hunted-Vertrau...eywords=hunted

[Patsfan123]

Originally Posted by Early Memphis

Does anyone know if Hunted (no US release), the Melissa George one-season TV series, is region B locked or not? The site says, for both the UK and DE, “Region B (A, C untested)”. Both Amazons say B:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hunted-1-Bl...melissa+george

https://www.amazon.de/Hunted-Vertrau...eywords=hunted

They both say B and are from eOne who definitely region locks so I'd guess they are locked.

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[Early Memphis]

Originally Posted by Patsfan123

They both say B and are from eOne who definitely region locks so I'd guess they are locked.

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Thanks. Rats, I hate region coding.

[HD Goofnut]

Added Zelig and A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy.

Updated Jerry Maguire (HK disc still wins for PQ), Black Eagle, and The Sect.

[HD Goofnut]

Added Sniper (1993) and Sonatine.

Updated The Dead Zone.

[Cevolution]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

Updated The Dead Zone.

There is two different Australian releases of The Dead Zone:



The first release was the one on your list prior to you updating it today, it has a higher video bitrate than the second release but has no special features (other than a trailer from memory), unlike the second release which includes some extras:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...3&postcount=68

I can see that you have removed it and put the second version in it's place, when instead both versions should really be on the list.

Edit: Your listing is actually now incorrect as well, because the video bitrate reflects the second release, but the audio track (the first release has a Dolby True HD track, whereas the second has a DTS-HD MA track) and bitrate reflect the first release.

[Davidian]

Originally Posted by Cevolution

There is two different Australian releases of The Dead Zone:



The first release was the one on your list prior to you updating it today, it has a higher video bitrate that the second release but has no special features (other than a trailer from memory), unlike the second release which includes some extras:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...3&postcount=68

I can see that you have removed it and put the second version in it's place, when instead both versions should really be on the list.

Edit: Your listing is actually now incorrect as well, because the video bitrate reflects the second release, but the audio track (the first release has a Dolby True HD track, whereas the second has a DTS-HD MA track) and bitrate reflect the first release.

Here's the BDinfo Comparison:

Dead Zone v1:

Disc Title: The Dead Zone
Disc Size: 23,768,224,307 bytes
Protection: AACS
BD-Java: Yes
Playlist: 00003.MPLS
Size: 23,407,355,904 bytes
Length: 1:43:43.133
Total Bitrate: 30.09 Mbps
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 23993 kbps / 1080p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English / Dolby TrueHD Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3109 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps)

V2:

Disc Title: The Dead Zone
Disc Size: 23,392,358,713 bytes
Protection: AACS
BD-Java: Yes
Playlist: 00002.MPLS
Size: 21,334,401,024 bytes
Length: 1:43:43.133
Total Bitrate: 27.43 Mbps
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 21993 kbps / 1080p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English / DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3606 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio: English / Dolby Digital Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 320 kbps

V2 Special Features:

• Audio Commentary by Screenplay Writer Stephen Jones and Film Critic Kim Newman
• Memories from the Dead Zone (SD, 12:18)
• Visions and Horror From The Dead Zone (SD, 9:42)
• The politics of the Dead Zone (SD, 11:33)
• Trailer (HD, 1:38)

[trustno1]

Originally Posted by Tech-UK

Any confirmation of the region coding of the new JP Black Hawk Down release?

I got the JP set in the mail today. The movie blu-ray disc may be region free but the two DVDs that house the extras are region 2 locked. The audio commentaries are missing too. Looks like I'm still keeping the current blu and the old 3 disc DVD set.

[Early Memphis]

Originally Posted by trustno1

I got the JP set in the mail today. The movie blu-ray disc may be region free but the two DVDs that house the extras are region 2 locked. The audio commentaries are missing too. Looks like I'm still keeping the current blu and the old 3 disc DVD set.

What?!!! I can't watch the DVD extras? WTF!

So much for the happier, more positive post I'd just composed:

Wow! I don’t know what they’re putting in the sake over there but Amazon Japan is rockin’! I ordered on January 6th and the order arrived this morning! Not only that, but it was packed the way (but even better than) Amazon used to pack stuff : BDs banded together on a cardboard pallet which was then shrink-wrapped and form-fitted into a box. Nothing could move or get banged around. Amazon US wouldn’t even have shipped yet, unless maybe if I paid the Prime ransom.
By contrast, my Amazon.de order also arrived today - after being ordered 13 days earlier than the Japan order. Throw in the two orders from eBay which also arrived today and I’m once again buried under a mound of unwatched BDs.

... ...

Edit : I emailed Amz.jp : Why would a Japanese Product contain Region B anything when both Japan and the US are Region A?

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by Early Memphis

What?!!! I can't watch the DVD extras? WTF!

So much for the happier, more positive post I'd just composed:

Wow! I don’t know what they’re putting in the sake over there but Amazon Japan is rockin’! I ordered on January 6th and the order arrived this morning! Not only that, but it was packed the way (but even better than) Amazon used to pack stuff : BDs banded together on a cardboard pallet which was then shrink-wrapped and form-fitted into a box. Nothing could move or get banged around. Amazon US wouldn’t even have shipped yet, unless maybe if I paid the Prime ransom.
By contrast, my Amazon.de order also arrived today - after being ordered 13 days earlier than the Japan order. Throw in the two orders from eBay which also arrived today and I’m once again buried under a mound of unwatched BDs.

... ...

Edit : I emailed Amz.jp : Why would a Japanese Product contain Region B anything when both Japan and the US are Region A?

I'm interested in their response because that is messed up. They are Region 1 for dvd just like the U.S. so the DVDs should be Region 1 instead of 2.

[HD Goofnut]

Added Avenging Force and The Purple Rose of Cairo.

[TheOneWithThePrize]

Originally Posted by Early Memphis

[Edit : I emailed Amz.jp : Why would a Japanese Product contain Region B anything when both Japan and the US are Region A?

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

I'm interested in their response because that is messed up. They are Region 1 for dvd just like the U.S. so the DVDs should be Region 1 instead of 2.

Ummm, no, DVDs issued in Japan have always been region 2. They are NTSC just as North America but their region coding have always been region code 2. With the advent of BD and lesser regions their BDs are region A but DVDs remain region 2.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by TheOneWithThePrize

Ummm, no, DVDs issued in Japan have always been region 2. They are NTSC just as North America but their region coding have always been region code 2. With the advent of BD and lesser regions their BDs are region A but DVDs remain region 2.

Really? That makes it even stranger.

[TheOneWithThePrize]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

Really? That makes it even stranger.

I don't see why you'd think that?

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by TheOneWithThePrize

I don't see why you'd think that?

For some reason I thought Japan was in Region 1 for DVD. I never bought a JP DVD so I never realized that.

[TheOneWithThePrize]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

For some reason I thought Japan was in Region 1 for DVD. I never bought a JP DVD so I never realized that.

Ah, they've had some nice releases over the years. Picked up their releases of Gunmen (C. Lambert, M. Van Peebles) and True Lies to name a few.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by TheOneWithThePrize

Ah, they've had some nice releases over the years. Picked up their releases of Gunmen (C. Lambert, M. Van Peebles) and True Lies to name a few.

I probably need to put the BD/DVD Region map in the OP as well.