The Crow in February

[Loser]

Gamehead have The Crow listed down for BD release on Feb 3 and include cover art as well. No tech specs have been listed yet though.

http://www.gamehead.com.au/Blu-ray/A...e-Crow/7013400

[TelkEvolon]

Glad to see that this will be in stores.

http://http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/dvd/dvd-genres/action-adventure/the-crow-blu-ray/586806

I remember when I first seen this movie, I thought it was the coolest thing ever.

[CactusMatt]

That's great, first day purchase for sure (prices permitting).

[snsdfan]

I just love the jacket of the movie!!

[thetechnique]

Oh yeah day 1 purchase (pls have a great transfer !)

[gettodamoofies]

Hopefully it's not the crappy UK one. I'm a little concerned it might be. Even though the UK release has been out for ages, it is an Entertainment in Video release and this one is done by Roadshow. Roadshow is often the local distributor of titles that EiV get in the UK.

I sincerely hope it's not and that it's a new transfer or at least the one that Universal used in Japan.

Fingers crossed for a good release though!

[TheDevilsGuard]

Yeah, every copy of this I had on DVD was garbage quality, hope they beef it up for the bluray

[Sky_Captain]

Originally Posted by atexp80

Hopefully it's not the crappy UK one. I'm a little concerned it might be. Even though the UK release has been out for ages, it is an Entertainment in Video release and this one is done by Roadshow. Roadshow is often the local distributor of titles that EiV get in the UK.

I sincerely hope it's not and that it's a new transfer or at least the one that Universal used in Japan.

Fingers crossed for a good release though!

Okay, to clear something up here.
The UK disc and Japanese disc use exactly the same master. Obviously, the Japanese disc uses different encoding and at the proper 1080p/24hz.

Aside from that, they look almost identical.

The Japanese release is NOT some wonderfully bold leap in quality from the UK disc.

[gettodamoofies]

Originally Posted by Sky_Captain

Okay, to clear something up here.
The UK disc and Japanese disc use exactly the same master. Obviously, the Japanese disc uses different encoding and at the proper 1080p/24hz.

Aside from that, they look almost identical.

The Japanese release is NOT some wonderfully bold leap in quality from the UK disc.

Perhaps I should have chosen my words more correctly. I'm not referring to the picture quality as in the transfer, but rather the encode. The fact that the UK release is MPEG-2 and 1080i/50 whereas the Japanese release is AVC and 1080p/24 is of importance to me. Given that the 50Hz results in the pitch differential (which just happens to be one of my pet peeves) I certainly think it's quite big difference in the way the audio is presented regardless of whether both feature lossless audio or not.

Given those two points that's exactly why I'd want it to be based on the Japanese release if it were to be using either one of the two.